Lauren Yee

Harman Writer-In-Residence, Spring 2026

The Spring 2026 Harman Writer-In-Residence will be playwright Lauren Yee.

Lauren Yee is the author of ten full-length plays, most recently, Cambodian Rock Band (2018), awarded the Horton Foote Prize,  Steinberg/ATCA Award, LA Drama Critics Circle Ted Schmitt Award, and The Kilroys List Number One Prize. It premiered at South Coast Rep, followed by productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Victory Gardens, City Theatre, Merrimack Rep, and Signature Theatre.  Currently, she is a Residency 5 playwright at Signature Theatre, New Dramatists member (class of 2025), and Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab member.

She is the winner of the Doris Duke Artist Award, the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Horton Foote Prize, the Kesselring Prize, the ATCA/Steinberg Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award, and the Francesca Primus Prize. She was also the finalist for the Edward M. Kennedy Prize and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

On top of being a playwright, Yee works also as a screenwriter and TV writer with ongoing projects with Apple TV+ and Netflix. She worked as a writer on Pachinko (Apple TV), SOUNDTRACK (Netflix), and a to-be-announced upcoming FX limited series.