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Liqing is a playwright and screenwriter. Their work has been developed/presented/supported by Theater Mu, Second Stage (in the Judith Champion New Voices series), the María Irene Fornés Institute Writers Workshop, The Orchard Project, the Sewanee Writers' Conference (as a Walter E. Dakin Fellow), Breaking the Binary Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Southern Theater, and CHUANG Stage, among others. They are a proud inaugural member of the Mu Tang Clan, current mentor of the Mu Tang Clan Vol. 2, and member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab 2.0. Currently, they are working on a commission for the Sloan Foundation through Ensemble Studio Theatre. They are a Semi-Finalist for the 2022-2023 Princess Grace Award, the 2022-2024 WP Lab, the 2023 Disney General Entertainment Writing Program, and a Finalist for the Mentorship Matters BIPOC Initiative. In their former life as a creative executive, Liqing developed feature animated films for DreamWorks China, including ABOMINABLE and OVER THE MOON.
Currently, she is a 2023-2025 Many Voices Fellow the Playwrights’ Center, and was previously a 2022-2023 Many Voices Fellow. BFA: NYU, Film and Television. MFA: Hunter College, Playwriting. Born and raised in Northern California, they are often between Los Angeles and New York.
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Plays
The mental state of a Chinese-American woman rapidly deteriorates as she starts to question the motivations of her white boyfriend. Meanwhile, her best friend, a Chinese-American man moves to China to build up his business as a pick-up artist. A dark comedy about love, identity, and the racial politics of desire within the local Chinese and foreign populations of Shanghai.
YELLOW FEVER
A young, aspiring Asian-American producer will do anything it takes to increase representation for Asian people - but at what cost? A genre-bending satire with music that looks at the impact of capitalism on the entertainment industry.
YELLOW
DREAM$
Two first-generation Chinese-American sisters are sick of their dysfunctional family and want to know why - so the cycle stops with them. A whydunnit tragicomedy about nature versus nurture.
YELLOW MIRRORS
BLOOM
A queer modern adaptation of the Chinese classical opera, The Peony Pavilion. In this take, a young Asian woman encounters, in the course of a dream, all of the people she desired but never had the courage to actually pursue.
SKINLESS
SKINLESS re-imagines Chinese legend The White Snake as a queer, gender-bending fairy tale. A coming-of-age love story about the power of re-invention.
A multimedia meditation on codependency through the lens of several pairs of queer couples and friends, who enact cycles of self-destruction as they attempt to get healthier.