An Interview with Max Yu - NPC '22

We chat with Max Yu about his play, Nightwatch, performing July 13 & 14, 2022 as part of our National Playwrights Conference.

Max Yu is a first-generation Chinese-American playwright from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has lived in Los Angeles, Shanghai, and now New York. He was featured in the New York Times for winning the American Playwrighting Foundation's 2019 Relentless Award for Nightwatch. He is the youngest and first Asian-American to win the prize. Max is a member of Page 73’s 2021-22 Interstate 73 Writers Group, and he is currently under commission from Atlantic Theater Company and Shaking the Tree Theater. His plays include Nightwatch (developed at the Goodman Theatre), Distance Abandoned (Second Generation Productions), Dragonfly (American Playwriting Foundation), The Edge (Shaking the Tree Theater), and Little Red (Horizon Theatre). Max's poetry and prose have been published in Spittoon, Babel, and Westwind. He received his B.A. in Theater from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied playwriting under Sylvan Oswald. You can find him at @maxyuliang and www.maxyu.carrd.co

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