Dustin H. Chinn

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Artist Profile

Dustin H. Chinn is a native Seattleite/long-time New Yorker whose plays include COLONIALISM IS TERRIBLE, BUT PHỞ IS DELICIOUS and SNOWFLAKES, OR RARE WHITE PEOPLE. He’s a recipient of the Mark O’Donnell Prize and an Edgerton New Play Award. Dustin has developed work with the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, Ars Nova Play Group, Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep Summer Residency Lab, A.C.T.’s New Strands Festival, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Hawthornden Castle Literary Retreat, Tofte Lake Center, the University of Washington via a Mellon Creative Fellowship, UC Berkeley, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and UMass at Amherst New Play Lab. In the past year he’s gone diving in Indonesia’s Raja Ampat and Mexico’s Revillagigedo Archipelago.

Productions at Chance Theater

Production Date Role
Boat Show: OTR New Play Reading June 2024 Playwright
Colonialism is Terrible, But Phở is Delicious March 2023 Playwright
Colonialism is Terrible, But Pho is Delicious February 2021 Playwright