Catherine Yu

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Catherine Yu is a Chicago-based writer of plays and opera librettos. Her plays include In Spite of My Ambivalence, which was a 2024 Venturous Playwright Fellowship nominee; In Love and Friendship, which received a 2023 Second Round selection by the Austin Film Festival; Le Jeté, a 2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semifinalist; The Day is Long to End, produced in 2018 at the University of Florida; and The Sun Experiment, which received a Fringe NYC Overall Excellence in Playwriting Award and was named among Time Out New York’s Top Ten Nightlife and Music Events of the Week in August 2014. She has held fellowships from IAC, New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell, Soho Rep, and New York Theatre Workshop. Her opera librettos have been commissioned by Atlanta Opera and Strange Trace. She is a resident playwright with Chicago Dramatists. She holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a M.F.A. from New York University.

Her time as a Hodder Fellow will focus on the writing of a play about an Asian American immigrant family told through a Japanese narrative structure.