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name: "Lauren Yee"
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roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T04:15:27.406806+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Lauren Yee

Writer. Born in San Francisco, California.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5912312/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3479014

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Pachinko*](https://film.one/tv/pachinko.md) (85)

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## 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*.

*Sources: imdb.com, nac-cna.ca, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Pachinko* (2022), Fi1m 85, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/pachinko.md)

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