Lauren Yee – författare

Characters: 3 male, 3 female Comedy The Wongs are American as apple pie. Desdemona dreams of Princeton but could use some help with her calculus. Her brother Upton wants to be a World of Warcraft champion but needs more free time to train. Upton solves both their problems by bringing an indentured servant home one day, but they soon discover that "Ching Chong" has American dreams of his own! An irreverent new comedy by Lauren Yee is skewering every cliche about Asian American identity. The show won the 2007 Yale Playwrights Festival. "...a lively, likable show! Playwright Lauren Yee gleefully highlights the assimilated life of the Wongs, who defy the stereotype of the hard driving Chinese-American family. It's clever and her insights are astute!" -Ken Jaworowski, New York Times "...a wildly inventive, raucously funny ride. Though rooted in Asian American literary tradition, this play upends its conventions with inspired irreverence. You have not seen anything like this before. The fourth wave of Asian American playwriting has arrived!" -David Henry Hwang, New York Times "a smart, fast-paced comedy that wrings laughs from the topics of cultural identity and assimilation.Neither predictable nor politically correct, it's a satirical cartoon that has heart and even occasional poignancy" -Theatremania.com, Patrick Lee "Yee's characters have a substantial basis in camp...Ching Chong Chinaman shines in its countless bit parts and joking asides..." -Nicole Villeneuve, Backstage "Wildly funny...makes hilarious splash in melting pot" -Contra Costa Times "Whip-smart and very funny...Particularly clever is Yee's deft use of magical realism." -East Bay Express "Fast, furious and very funny...an exhilarating send-up" -Berkeley Daily Planet "Great laughs...unexpectedly moving" -Examiner.com

In 1978 Chum fled Cambodia and narrowly escaped the murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Thirty years later he returns in search of his wayward daughter Neary. Jumping back and forth in time thrilling mystery meets rock concert as both father and daughter are forced to face the music of the past.From playwright Lauren Yee (King of the YeesThe Great Leap) comes a story filled with horror humor pathos and songs by the best unknown rock band in Cambodia!

For nearly twenty years playwright Lauren Yee's father Larry has been a driving force in the Yee Family Association a seemingly obsolescent Chinese American men's club formed a hundred fifty years ago in the wake of the Gold Rush and the building of the transcontinental railroad. But when her father goes missing Lauren must plunge into the rabbit hole of San Francisco Chinatown and confront a world both foreign and familiar. At once bitingly hilarious and heartbreakingly honest King of the Yees is an epic joyride across cultural national and familial borders that explores what it means to truly be a Yee.

Joe and Jenny, a young immigrant couple, share a drive across America to their new home, forging a relationship through national sites, motels and unexpectedly eventful IHOP stops. Twenty years later, Joe takes the same drive with their 19-year-old daughter, Lucy, but Jenny isn't there. As twin road trips unfold two decades apart, a picture of a family comes into gradual focus.

Freshman year at college is hard when your roommate is weird you're feeling homesick and a hook-handed serial killer is slashing girls' throats. But if Lexi can discover what really happened to her high school best friend on that car ride to the movies everything will be okay. In this existential slasher comedy Lexi and her friends learn what it means to grow up - and it's not pretty.

Today is the two-year anniversary of Fiona's son's disappearance and still nothing makes sense to her. Not her blase husband the incompetent detective or the neighborhood kidnapper who keeps introducing himself in the checkout line. As Fiona delves back into her memories of that fateful day to uncover that crucial missing piece grief and comedy collide and ordinary turns of phrase take on dangerous new meanings

Katie and Craig are having a baby... with a surrogate... who lives in India. A month before the baby's due date Craig reluctantly travels to the subcontinent where he meets Suraiya their young less-than-thrilled surrogate. As all three "parents" anxiously wait for the baby to be born flights of fancy attack them from all sides in the form of an unctuous Frenchman and a smart-mouthed fetus. A whimsical take on modern day colonialism.

Cambodian Rock Band is an epic play/rock concert that thrusts us into the life of a young woman trying to piece together her family history thirty years after her father fled Cambodia. Featuring actor/musicians who perform a mix of contemporary Dengue Fever hits and classic Cambodian oldies live, Lauren Yee brings to vivid life the Cambodian rock scene of the 60s and 70s, a movement cut short by the Khmer Rouges brutal attempt to erase the music (and musicians) once and for all. A story about survivors, the resilient bond of family, and the enduring power of music.