Chay Yew

Chay Yew’s directing credits include the Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Mark Taper Forum, Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Goodman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Denver Center Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Roundhouse Theatre, Cornerstone Theater, East West Players, Portland Center Stage, Geva Theatre Center, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Empty Space Theatre, Portland Center Stage and Singapore Repertory Theatre. His opera credits include the world premieres of Osvaldo Golijov and David Henry Hwang’s Ainadamar (co-production with Tanglewood Music Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Los Angeles Philharmonic) and Rob Zuidam’s Rage D’Amors (Tanglewood). A playwright and an alumnus of New Dramatists, he is also a recipient of the Obie and Drama-Logue Awards for Direction. He is the Artistic Director of Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago.