All Stories About Lauren Yee

Lauren Yee and Jaclyn Backhaus Win 2018 Horton Foote Prize

The playwrights will each receive $25,000 prizes for their plays ‘Cambodian Rock Band’ and ‘India Pale Ale.’

A conversation with the playwright about music, memory, and family.

Plays by Ayad Akhtar, Kristen Childs, Lisa Loomer, Dominique Morisseau, and Lauren Yee are up for the award.

The festival will include works by Sigrid Gilmer, David Jacobi, Kemp Powers, Barbara Seyda, José Cruz González, Matthew Lopez, and Lauren Yee.

The prize honors emerging writers with support toward development of their work.

Their fourth annual list features 37 underproduced plays by female and trans writers, and more by writers of color than in previous years.

Her comical ‘King of the Yees’ is not your average family play, but then her dad isn’t your average dad.

Lauren Yee, Don Nguyen, and Dustin Chinn will develop their plays at American Conservatory Theater.

She will receive an award of $10,000 for her play ‘in a word.’

The SoCal theatre’s expanded season includes a world premiere musical about the Loch Ness monster and new works by resident playwright Lauren Yee.