2019 Resident Playwright
Jessica Huang
Jessica HuangFor the 9th year in a row, Chance Theater will have a resident playwright whose work will be featured throughout the year in the On The Radar Series. Previous resident playwrights include Marshall Pailet (whose musical Triassic Parq at the Chance won the Ovation Award for Best Musical), Lauren Yee (whose plays, King of the Yees and Cambodian Rock Band are being produced all over the country), Joanna Garner (The Orange Garden and 100 Heartbreaks), and Nick Jones (who had two of his shows that were featured in our OTR Series receive major world premieres at Lincoln Center and Manhattan Theatre Club). Over the years, the resident playwrights have returned time and again to have their work featured in both the OTR Series (Zayd Dohrn’s recent reading of Bedlam) and the Main Season (Lauren Yee’s in a word and Marshall Pailet’s Claudio Quest).
We are very excited to introduce you to our 2019 Resident Playwright… Jessica Huang. Jessica is a MacDowell Fellow and a recipient of back-to-back Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellowships (2016-17 & 2017-18). Her work has been developed or produced in Minneapolis by Mu Performing Arts, History Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, nationally by Timeline Theatre Company (Chicago), A-Squared Theatre Workshop (Chicago), Atlantic Theatre Company (NYC), 2nd Generation (NYC), Leviathan Labs (NYC), the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts (D.C.), the Source Festival (D.C.), and internationally by Yellow Earth’s Typhoon Festival (London). Jessica also co-founded Other Tiger Productions, a theatrical production company with a mission to pursue multidisciplinary collaborations, intentional inclusivity and a re-examination of traditional theater practices. Her play, The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, won a Stavis Award in 2018, was featured on the Kilroy’s List and was a Susan Smith Blackburn Nominee in 2017. Purple Cloud received a Kilroy’s List honorable mention and also received a Susan Smith Blackburn nomination. And Zero-Infinity Flight Path was a semi-finalist at the Eugene O’Neill New Playwrights Conference.
This year, Jessica will have two of her shows featured in the OTR Series — a LAB Workshop of a brand new play that she’s still writing, and a staged reading of Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying, which merges mixed-race identity politics, science, and economics to tell a story that spans 300 million years.
Welcome, Jessica! We are very excited to start this new partnership with you. We can’t wait to see what you will write next!
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