About
Yilong Liu is a playwright and screenwriter originally from China, and a recent graduate of Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. His play The Book of Mountains and Seas won the Lambda Literary Award for Drama and Second Place in the BBC Popcorn Writing Award at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe. His Off-Broadway debut, Good Enemy, premiered at Minetta Lane Theatre as part of Audible Theater’s 22/23 season. In 2024, he was in residence with PlayCo at Sala Beckett in Barcelona, where his play We Borrowed Brokenness was translated and performed in Catalan. He is developing new work across stage and screen, including a feature film adaptation of the NYT bestseller Fortunate Sons and an original pilot through the Orchard Project’s Episodic Lab. Yilong is a Core Writer at Playwrights’ Center, a Playwrights Realm fellow, a Dramatist Guild Foundation fellow, and a current commission recipient from Manhattan Theatre Club’s Sloan Initiative.
At The Orchard Project
- 2024Episodic Lab
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