Biography
Lauren Yee is an American playwright and television writer. She was born and raised in San Francisco, graduated from Yale University in 2007 and received an MFA in playwriting from the University of California, San Diego in 2012.
Her plays include Cambodian Rock Band (premiered 2018) and The Great Leap. She has received awards including the Horton Foote Prize, the Whiting Award and the Steinberg Playwright Award.
On television she has written for the Netflix series Soundtrack (2019) and served as story editor and writer on the Apple TV+ series Pachinko (2022). She has also worked as a consulting producer on series including Billions and Interior Chinatown.
