10 Facts About Chay Yew

Chay Yew is a playwright and stage director who was born in Singapore.

Chay Yew was artistic director of the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago from 2011 to 2020.

Chay Yew's adaptations include A Winter People ; Federico Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba.

Chay Yew edited an anthology of contemporary Asian American plays, "Version 3.0", for Theatre Communications Group Publications.

In 2006, Chay Yew participated in The Collision Project at The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.

Chay Yew wrote a documentary play 17 based on the actual lives of Atlanta's racially diverse teenagers.

Chay Yew was the Artistic Director of Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago from 2011 to 2020.

For direction, Chay Yew is the recipient of the DramaLogue Award, 2020 Craig Noel Award; and OBIE Award for Direction.

In 2022, Chay Yew was featured in the book 50 Key Figures in Queer US Theatre, with a profile written by theatre scholar Dan Bacalzo.

Chay Yew was the Founder and Director of the Mark Taper Forum's Asian Theatre Workshop for ten years.