Show
MOTHER RUSSIA
2025.26 Season
Written by
Lauren Yee
Directed by
Teddy Bergman
About the
Playwright
LAUREN YEE is proud to be a Signature Theatre resident playwright. She is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and librettist based in New York City. Prior to the pandemic, Lauren was named by American Theatre Magazine as the second-most produced playwright of that upcoming season. Her play with music CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND (with music by Dengue Fever and others) had its New York premiere at Signature, with additional productions at South Coast Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, East West Players, and others. Her play THE GREAT LEAP was produced at the Denver Center, Steppenwolf, Seattle Repertory, Atlantic Theatre, the Guthrie Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, and others. She wrote the book on the musical adaptation of Madeleine L'Engle's A WRINKLE IN TIME, with music and lyrics by Heather Christian. Other honors include the Doris Duke Artists Award, Whiting Award, Steinberg/ATCA Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award, Horton Foote Prize, Kesselring Prize, Primus Prize, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and the #1 and #2 plays on the 2017 Kilroys List. She's also a New Dramatists member and an alum of Playwrights Realm and Ma-Yi Theatre. She has developed TV pilots for Apple and Netflix. TV credits: PACHINKO (Apple), INTERIOR CHINATOWN (Hulu), BILLIONS (Showtime), CLIPPED (FX), SOUNDTRACK (Netflix). BA: Yale. MFA: UCSD. www.laurenyee.com
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