CHING CHONG CHINAMAN:
City Pages Top 10 play of 2009
East Bay Express Top 10 play of 2008
“In her new play “Ching Chong Chinaman,” Lauren Yee lifts America’s vaunted melting pot off the patriotic flame and splatters it all over the stove.” — Pat Craig, Contra Costa Times
“A gleefully irreverent, audaciously un-PC comedy about cultural identity.” — Chad Jones, Theatre Dogs
“… the play by 23-year-old San Franciscan and recent Yale grad Yee is whip-smart and very funny, in a snappy production by Desdemona Chiang with a strong cast.” — Sam Hurwitt, East Bay Express
“A wild ride—fast, furious and very funny.” — Ken Bullock, Berkeley Daily Planet
“This play is too smart and funny to miss.” — Kat Chamberlain, nytheatre.com
“The plot gains momentum toward the middle and keeps building to a final, surprisingly unsettling conclusion.” — Summer Banks, CurtainUp
“… Lauren Yee’s charming, amusing, and entirely overcrammed play.” — Dominic P. Papatola, Pioneer Press
“Yee’s script takes on questions of ethnic identity while, with agility, transferring them to the universal gulf between yearning and reality.” — Quinton Skinner, Star Tribune
THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JOSHUA ZWEIG:
“Yee’s heartbreaking and humorous details truthfully capture the human dilemma of confronting the loss of loved ones.” — Linda Ayres-Frederick, San Francisco Bay Times
OVER THE ASIAN AIRWAVES:
“An ambitious and hilarious farce.” — Anne Marie Welsh, San Diego Union-Tribune
“An amusing, invigorating piece of theater, well written and well executed.” — Pat Launer, San Diego Theatre Scene
PROFILES AND ARTICLES:
“Dramatist Guild Fellows” — The Dramatist (November/December 2009)
“For the Love of the Game” — American Theatre Magazine (May 2009)
“The Public Announces Members of 2009 Emerging Writers Group” — BroadwayWorld.com (February 4, 2009)
“Ching Chong for Change”— Jenna Purcell and Ashley Glazebrook, City on a Hill Press (November 20, 2008)
“Top 13 Up-and-Coming Playwrights” — Theatre Bay Area (March 2008)
“Bringing ‘Ching Chong Chinaman’ to the City” — Rebecca Arzoian, Yale Daily News (August 31, 2007)
“Taking the Stage: S.F. Young Playwrights Festival” — Reyhan Harmanci, San Francisco Chronicle (May 26, 2006)
“Keep an Eye on: Lauren Yee” — Theatre Bay Area (April 2006)
