Lauren Yee is an American playwright from San Francisco. She has Bachelors of Arts from Yale University in English and Theatre Arts and a Masters of Fine Arts in Playwriting from University of California- San Diego. Her plays include Cambodian Rock Band, which played at the Signature Theatre in New York in 2020, where she is a Residency 5 Playwright, The Great Leap, King of Yees, Ching Chong Chinaman, Hookman, In a Word, Samsara, The Song of Summer, and The Tiger Among Us. She has been a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize, which honors women playwrights, and first and second on the Kilroys list, which highlights playwrights of marginalized genders. She also works in television, and has written for Pachinko and Soundtrack, and will executive produce the upcoming Afterparties.
The Hatmaker’s Wife first premiered at the UCSD Baldwin New Play Festival in California in 2011, under the name A Man, His Wife, and His Hat.
