Texas Tech University

Chay Yew

Director

WWPL Virtual Guest Artist

As a director, Chay Yew's New York credits include Mojada, Oedipus el Rey, Durango, Universes' Ameriville and Low (Public Theater); Cambodian Rock Band (Signature); The Architecture of Loss (New York Theatre Workshop); A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick (Playwrights Horizon); Draw The Circle (Rattlestick, Mosaic Theater Company, InterAct and Playmakers Rep); My Manana Comes (Playwrights Realm); Where Do We Sit On The Bus? (Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playmakers Rep, Boise Contemporary Theater, Teatro Vista, City Theatre and Victory Gardens); The House of Bernarda Alba (National Asian American Theatre Company); and Last of the Suns (Ma-Yi Theatre Company). Regionally, he directed Cambodian Rock Band (South Coast Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse); Lady in Denmark, Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men, Dartmoor Prison, Luis Alfaro's Book of Titus, and Universes' Blue Suite (Goodman Theatre); Cambodian Rock Band (South Coast Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse); Stuck Elevator and Brain People (American Conservatory Theatre); Durango and Stuck Elevator (Long Wharf Theatre); Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men (Berkeley Rep); Strike/Slip (Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival); Low (Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, Pillsbury Theatre); Ameriville (Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival, Roundhouse Theatre, Southern Repertory Theatre and Curious Theatre); Packing (About Face Theatre); Blue Suite (Gala Hispanic Theatre); Citizen 13559: The Diary of Ben 15 Uchida (Kennedy Center); Roz and Ray (Seattle Repertory Theatre); Black Odyssey (Denver Center Theater); Universes' Spring Training, and Draw The Circle (Playmakers Rep); Hannah and the Dread Gazebo and Our Town (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Lettie, Hillary and Clinton, A Wonder In My Soul, The House That Will Not Stand, Roz and Ray, Gospel of Lovingkindness, Oedipus el Rey, Mojada, Death and the Maiden and Ameriville (Victory Gardens Theater); Boleros for the Disenchanted (Huntington Theatre); Antebellum (Woolly Mammoth Theatre); 36 Views (Portland Center Stage, Geva Theatre Center and Laguna Playhouse); Frozen, Laramie Project and Strange Attractors (Empty Space); Po Boy Tango (Northlight Theatre); M. Butterfly, Golden Child, Durango, Sisters Matsumoto, Big Hunk O' Burnin' Love and Pointless (East West Players); Sex Parasite, Question 27 Question 28, Rice Boy, Depth Becomes Her, I Remember Mapa and Drama! (Mark Taper Forum); A Winter People and Winchester House (Theatre at Boston Court); Red (Singapore Repertory Theatre and East West Players); A Beautiful Country (Cornerstone Theatre Company), Home: Places between Asia and America, and Talking with My Hands (Northwest Asian American Theatre); Brian Freeman's Civil Sex (Walk and Squawk); Denise Uyehara's Maps of Body and City (Highways Performance Space); and David Schmader's Straight (Theatre Rhinoceros, Highways and NWAAT). His opera credits include the world premieres of Osvaldo Golijov's and David Henry Hwang's Ainadamar (co-production with Tanglewood Music Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Los Angeles Philharmonic) and Rob Zuidam's Rage D'Amors (Tanglewood). He is also a recipient of the OBIE, DramaLogue, and the Craig Noel Awards for Direction. As a playwright, Chay Yew's plays include Porcelain, A Language of Their Own, Red, Wonderland, Question 27 Question 28, A Distant Shore, 17, and Visible Cities. His other work includes adaptations, A Winter People (based on Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard) and Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, a musical Long Season and other theatre works, Vivien and the Shadows; Home: Places between Asia and America; and A Beautiful Country. His work has been produced at the Public Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Manhattan Theatre Club, Long Wharf Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Intiman Theatre, Wilma Theatre, Portland Center Stage, East West Players, Dallas Theatre Center, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Group Theatre. Studio Theatre, Perseverance Theatre, Dad's Garage, Crowded Fire, Smithsonian Institute, North Carolina Performing Arts, amongst many others. Overseas, his work has been produced by the Royal Court Theatre (London, UK), Fattore K and Napoli Teatro Festival (Naples, Italy), La Mama (Melbourne, Australia), Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center (Shanghai, China), Four Arts (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), Wild Rice, Singapore Repertory Theatre, Toy Factory, Checkpoint Theatre, and TheatreWorks (Singapore), to name a few. For his plays, he is the recipient of the London Fringe Award for Best Playwright and Best Play, George and Elisabeth Marton Playwriting Award, GLAAD Media Award, Asian Pacific Gays and Friends' Community Visibility Award, Made in America Award, AEA/SAG/AFTRA 2004 Diversity Honor, and Robert Chesley Award; he has also received grants from the McKnight Foundation, Rockefeller MAP Fund and the TCG/Pew National Residency Program.

Chay Yew