Yilong Liu

Yilong Liu (he/him) is a second-year playwright in the Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. His play Good Enemy had its premiere off-Broadway at Minetta Lane Theatre as part of Audible Theater’s 22/23 season. Yilong is a Core Writer at Playwrights’ Center and an alumnus of Ensemble Studio Theatre's Youngblood. He has developed work with Ojai Playwrights Conference, Kennedy Center, and SPACE on Ryder Farm, among many others. Yilong is currently writing under commission for the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Sloan Initiative. Plays include The Book of Mountains and Seas (2021 Lambda Literary Award for Drama, Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award), June is the First Fall (Kennedy Center Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, Yangtze Rep, Kumu Kahua Theatre, Original Works Publishing), Joker (Po’okela Award, Kumu Kahua Theatre), and PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute (New Conservatory Theatre Center). Yilong grew up in China and received his MFA from the University of Hawai‘i.