Cambodian Rock Band by Lauren Yee
In 1978 Chum fled Cambodia and narrowly escaped the murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Thirty years later he returns in search of his wayward daughter Neary. Jumping back and forth in time thrilling mystery meets rock concert as both father and daughter are forced to face the music of the past. From playwright Lauren Yee (King of the YeesThe Great Leap) comes a story filled with horror humor pathos and songs by the best unknown rock band in Cambodia!Lauren Yee, a playwright from San Francisco, was born and reared there. She is now based in New York City. Her piece Cambodian Rock Band, with music by Dengue Fever, had its world debut at South Coast Rep and is currently on tour with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, and Victory Gardens. Her play The Great Leap has been seen at the Denver Center, Seattle Repertory, Atlantic Theatre, and the Guthrie, with more performances planned at Arts Club and InterAct Theatre in the near future. Also coming up at Trinity Rep is The Song of Summer.
The Goodman Theatre and Center Theatre Group launched Yee's play King of the Yees, which was followed by productions at ACT Theatre, Canada's National Arts Centre, and Baltimore Center Stage. Ching Chong Chinaman (Mu Performing Arts), The Hatmaker's Wife (Playwrights Realm, Moxie, PlayPenn), Hookman (Encore, Company One), In a Word (SF Playhouse, Cleveland Public, Strawdog), Samsara (Victory Gardens, O'Neill Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival), and The Tiger Among Us (MAP Fund, Mu) are among the other pieces. She was a member of The Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, a Time Warner Fellow at the Women's Initiative Playwrights Lab, the Shank playwright-in-residence at Second Stage Theatre, a Playwrights' Center Core Writer, and the Page One resident playwright at Playwrights Realm. The Horton Foote Award, the Kesselring Prize, and the Francesca Primus Prize have all been awarded to her.
She was a finalist for the Edward M. Kennedy Prize. The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the ATCA/Steinberg Award, the Jerome Fellowship, the PONY Fellowship, the Princess Grace Award, the Sundance Theatre Lab, and the Wasserstein Prize are among the awards given out by the Kennedy Center. Her play The Hatmaker's Wife was nominated for the John Gassner Prize for best play by a new American playwright by the Outer Critics Circle. Her plays ranked one and second on the 2017 Kilroys List.
Yee is a Ma-Yi Theatre Writers Lab member, a Hodder fellow at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts for the 2018/2019 academic year, and a New Dramatists playwright (class of 2025). The Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Lincoln Center Theatre/LCT3, Mixed Blood Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Second Stage Theatre, South Coast Rep, and Trinity Rep are currently commissioning her work. She has written for the Netflix series MIXTAPE.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780573707247 |
| ISBN 10 | 0573707243 |
| Title | Cambodian Rock Band |
| Author | Lauren Yee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Samuel French, Inc. |
| Year published | 2020-02-10 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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