Chay Yew
Chay Yew's plays include Porcelain, A Language of Their Own, Red, A Beautiful Country, and Wonderland.  His other words include Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba (adaptation) and Home: Places Between Asia and America (performance).  His plays have been produced throughout the world, including productions at the New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theater, Royal Court Theater (London), Mark Taper Forum, Manhattan Theater Club, Long Wharf Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Intiman Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Cornerstone Theatre, East West Players, Dallas Theatre Center, Studio Theatre, Group Theatre, and TheatreWorks (Singapore), among others.  For his plays, Yew has received the London Fringe Award, George and Elisabeth Marton Playwriting Award, GLAAD Media Award, APGF's Community Visibility Award, and the Robert Chesley Award.  Yew is also the recipient of grants from the McKnight Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, TCG/Pew Charitable Trusts and the National Endowment for the Arts.  His plays, published by the Grove Press, were nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Drama.  He has also held residencies at the Northwest Asian American Theatre and East West Players.

Chay Yew's recent production of The Laramie Project at the Empty Space Theatre in Seattle was cited by the Seattle Times and The Stranger as one of the best achievements in theatre of 2001; he was also named best director by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  His other credits include Red (Los Angeles Times' Top Ten Productions of 2001), Golden Child (Los Angeles Times' and New Times' Top Ten Productions of 2000), Sisters Matsumoto, Pointless and Big Hunk O' Burnin' Love (East West Players); Red (Singapore Repertory Theatre); A Beautiful Country (Cornerstone Theatre Company); I Remember Mampa (Mark Taper Forum, East West Players, Magic Theatre, Northwest Asian American Theatre); Margaret Cho's Mondo Cho, Sandra Tsing Loh's Depth Becomes Her, Alec Mapa's Drama!; James Sie's Talking With My Hands and Wei Jinsheng's The Courage To Stand Alone (Mark taper Forum); The House of Bernarda Alba (National Asian American Theatre Company); David Schmader's Straight (Highway performance Space; Theatre Rhinoceros; (Northwest Asian American Theatre Company); Denise Uyehara's Maps of BDY and City (Highways Performance Space); Home Places Between Asia and America (NWAAT).  He is also the recipient of the Drama-Lounge Award for Best Direction.

A member of the New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild, Yew is the Director of the Taper's Asian Theatre Workshop, and the Artistic Director of Northwest Asian American Theatre/The Black Box in Seattle.