Jingan Young
Dr Jingan MacPherson Young (Chinese: 楊靜安) is an award winning Hong Kong born playwright, screenwriter, academic and journalist. Her play Filth or "Failed in London, Try Hong Kong" was the first play commissioned and produced in the English language by the Hong Kong Arts Festival and ran during the 42nd festival in March 2014.[1]
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Her feature film is currently in development with Greenacre Films and she is amongst the next cohort for the prestigious Channel 4 Screenwriting Programme 2021. She is a lecturer at King's College London.
She is the daughter of John Dragon Young (1949–1996), a scholar of Chinese history and politician in Hong Kong.
Education
Jingan was educated at King's College London with a BA (Hons) in English and Film Studies and Kellogg College, Oxford with a Master of Studies in Creative Writing. In 2019, she successfully completed a PhD in Film Studies at King's College London. Her monograph is under contract with Berghahn Books. She lecturers regularly at King's College London.
Theatre
She was a member of the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers Programme and Soho Theatre Young Company Writers' Lab. In 2016 she was awarded the Michael Grandage Futures Bursary to write a play on Hong Kong's last Governor Christopher Patten.[2]
She was named as a writer to watch amongst 200 broadcasting stars of the future by the BBC and Idris Elba as New Talent Hotlist 2017.
Works
She is the curator and editor of Foreign Goods: A Selection of Writing by British East Asian Arts, the first collection of plays by British East Asian writing published by Oberon Books. The foreword is written by David Henry Hwang.
She is a regular contributor for the South China Morning Post, and The Guardian.
Life and Death of a Journalist
Jingan's play LIFE AND DEATH OF A JOURNALIST, on the Hong Kong protests, premiered at VAULT FESTIVAL in February 2020. The Guardian called it intensely smart...prickling with intelligence and anger.
She appeared on BBC's Front Row programme with Stig Abell to discuss the origins of the play.
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