Jessica Huang

Jessica Huang is a playwright and librettist whose award-winning work includes: Mother of Exiles (Berkeley Rep World Premiere, Venturous Award, Rosa Parks Playwriting Award, Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award), The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin (Bernice Stavis Award), Blended 和 (Harmony): The Kim Loo Sisters (with music by Jacinth Greywoode), and Ten Things I Hate About You: The Musical (with Lena Dunham, score by Carly Rae Jepsen and Ethan Gruska). Her popular audioplay Song of the Northwoods is available on Audible. She is writing an adaptation of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds as a commission with Indiana Repertory Theatre, where she is the James Still Playwright in Residence. Jessica is also a Venturous Playwright Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, Hermitage Fellow and four-time Playwrights' Center fellow. She has been a member of Ars Nova Play Group, Civilians R&D Group and Page 73's Interstate 73. She is a graduate of the Playwrights Program at Juilliard. More: www.jessica-huang.com