KAT YEN THEATER DIRECTOR ▪ SET DESIGNER ▪ PRODUCER

(718) 640-6666 ▪ [email protected] www.katyen.com

EDUCATION

Yale School of Drama – M.F.A. in Directing (Class 2020) Mary Jean Parson Scholarship Cullman Scholarship in Directing Colgate University – B.A. in Theater, cum laude (Class of 2009) The Bronx High School of Science (Class of 2005)

THEATER PROGRAMS & EMPLOYMENT

LAByrinth Theater Company - Directing Instructor for Summer Intensive (2019) Stella Adler Studio of Acting – Guest Lecturer, Visiting Artist for Actor Warrior Intensive (Summer 2015-19) Second Stage Theatre – Van Lier Directing Fellow (2016-17) New Georges – Director's Jam (2016-17) Spookfish Theatre Company – Co-Artistic Director & Resident Director (2010-17) The Brick Theater – Panelist on Who Made This? Collaboration, Credit, and Intellectual Property (2017) Harvard University – Visiting Director (Fall 2015) LaGuardia Community College – Guest Artist & Lecturer (Fall 2015) The Flea Theater – Resident Director under Artistic Director Jim Simpson (2013-15) The Lark Play Development Center – Reader for Playwrights Week (2014-15) Horse Trade Theater Group – Resident Company (2013-14) Lincoln Center Director Lab (Summer 2013) SDC Foundation – Emerging Artists Symposium: Plays (Summer 2013) LAByrinth Theater Company – Ensemble Workshop (Spring 2012) Lucid Body – Alexander Technique Class w/ Karen Braga (Fall 2012 & 2016) Primary Stages ESPA – Viewpoints Class w/ Kim Wield; Site Specific Directing w/ Daniel Talbott; A Director Prepares w/ May Adrales (2012-13)

NEW YORK CITY & REGIONAL THEATER PRODUCTIONS

Director A Job To Do by Angela Sclafani IRT/#HealMeToo Festival Apr 2019 Director Now Is The Time by Tonya Pinkins IRT/#HealMeToo Festival Apr 2019 Director The Grandmothers by Kristine M. Reyes IRT/#HealMeToo Festival Apr 2019 Director Hawk's Bell of Gold by Desi Moreno-Penson IRT/#HealMeToo Festival Apr 2019 Director The Proposal by Nandita Shenoy IRT/#HealMeToo Festival Apr 2019 Director Uncivil Wars by Caridad Svich IRT/#HealMeToo Festival Apr 2019 Director & Set Designer I Am This For You* by Emily Gardner Ars Nova Theater June 2018 Xu Hall Assistant Director Father Comes Home From The by Suzan-Lori Parks Yale Repertory Theatre Apr-May (Director: Liz Diamond) Wars Parts 1,2, & 3 American Conservatory Theater (co-production) 2018 Director The Other Kids Ran Away* by Maiken Wiese The New Ohio Theatre Aug 2017 Director Fall of a Sparrow* by José Rivera Alvin Ailey Theater/Planet Connections July 2017 Assistant Director & Somebody's Daughter* by Chisa Hutchinson Second Stage Uptown June 2017 Mandarin Language Coach (Director: May Adrales) Director Everyday Afroplay by Daaimah Mubashshir JACK Apr 2017 Director Static* by Daaimah Mubashshir Dixon Place Feb 2017 Co-Director w/ John Gould Rubin Brooklyn Law* by Michael Ricigliano Jr. Burgdorff Center for the Performing Arts Feb 2017 Director & Set Designer I. M. LOST* by Nathalie Ellis Dixon Place Jan 2017 Einhorn Director Revolution by Virginia Grise INTAR/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2016 Director Raise Up by Migdalia Cruz INTAR/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2016 Director The Time is Now by Julian Mesri INTAR/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2016 Director The Millennial Tax by Elaine Romero INTAR/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2016 Director Capitalism by Candido Tirado INTAR/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2016 Director Reform/Revolution by Candido Tirado INTAR/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2016 Director The eye of a needle by Matt Barbot INTAR/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2016 Director The Gray Area by Chisa Hutchinson New Group/LAByrinth/Every 28 Hour Project Nov 2016 Director Getting the Story by Joan Lipkin New Group/LAByrinth/Every 28 Hour Project Nov 2016 Director A Birthday Wish by Robert Maesaka New Group/LAByrinth/Every 28 Hour Project Nov 2016 Director Equal Parts by Jake Margolin New Group/LAByrinth/Every 28 Hour Project Nov 2016 Director A Park in Ferguson by Rick G. Trumble New Group/LAByrinth/Every 28 Hour Project Nov 2016 Director Before the "Pop,Pop,Pop" by Universes New Group/LAByrinth/Every 28 Hour Project Nov 2016 Director You Try It by Neil Labute New Group/LAByrinth/Every 28 Hour Project Nov 2016 Director Lucky by D'lo New Group/LAByrinth/Every 28 Hour Project Nov 2016 Director Everyday Afroplay* by Daaimah Mubashshir Bushwick Starr July 2016 Director & Creator Emotional Labor by Kat Yen Rising Circle Theater Collective/Director's Jam June 2016 Director The Problem With America by Nandita Shenoy New Ohio Theatre/1MPF May 2016 Director Brandon by Yilong Liu New Ohio Theatre/1MPF May 2016 Director Perves and Peepers by Winter Miller New Ohio Theatre/1MPF May 2016 Director Embolize This by Chisa Hutchinson New Ohio Theatre/1MPF May 2016 Director I feel like a caterpillar by Heidi Armbruster New Ohio Theatre/1MPF May 2016 Director Smile by Ming Peiffer New Ohio Theatre/1MPF May 2016 Director Chivalry is Dead by Hilary Bettis New Ohio Theatre/1MPF May 2016 Director bark bark bark by Ming Peiffer Sargent Theatre/Oneness Project/RADDfest Apr 2016 Director Charlotte* by José Rivera Poetic Theater Productions/Taproot Festival Mar 2016 Director Impact by José Rivera Poetic Theater Productions/Taproot Festival Mar 2016 Director SMUDGE* by Mahogany L. Poetic Theater Productions/The Wild Project Mar 2016 Browne Co-Director w/ José Rivera American Fairytale by Migdalia Cruz INTAR/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2015 Co-Director w/ José Rivera Bad Joke by Peter Gil-Sheridan INTAR/1MPF/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2015 Co-Director w/ José Rivera Racism's Chokehold by Virginia Grise INTAR/1MPF/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2015 Co-Director w/ José Rivera Not One of the Ones by Matthew Paul INTAR/1MPF/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2015 Olmos Co-Director w/ José Rivera how it begins by Julián Mesri INTAR/1MPF/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2015 Co-Director w/ José Rivera the bastard has it coming by Julián Mesri INTAR/1MPF/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2015 Co-Director w/ José Rivera Family Trauma by Elaine Romero INTAR/1MPF/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2015 Co-Director w/ José Rivera Death Valley by Juan Villa INTAR/1MPF/One-Minute Play Festival Dec 2015 Director & Co-Set Designer References to Salvador Dali Make by José Rivera Harvard University Visiting Director's Project/ Oct 2015 Me Hot* American Repertory Theater (world premiere of unpublished & unproduced draft) Director Count Down* by Soré Agbaje Poetic Theater/Conscious Language Aug 2015 Co-Director w/ John Gould Rubin Nowhere/Now-Here* devised with Theaterlab July 2015 & Set Designer John Gould Rubin Assistant Director The Irresistible* by Caleb Hammond Immersive Gallery Apr 2015 (Director: Caleb Hammond) Director & Set Designer Destination: Oasis by Ming Peiffer Schapiro Theatre Feb 2015 Director & Set Designer am i? am i? am i?* by Ming Peiffer The Flea Theater Nov 2014 Director & Set Designer & i wrote on ur wall and by Ming Peiffer Spookfish Theatre/The Wild Project July 2014 Producer now I regret it* Director #cerulean by Ming Peiffer Sargent Theatre/Columbia University Feb 2014 Director & Set Designer & The ABC’s Guide by Ming Peiffer Spookfish/Horse Trade/The Kraine Theater Jan 2014 Producer to Getting Famous* N.Y. Fringe Festival/The C.O.W. Theater Aug 2013 Spookfish/Horse Trade/Red Room Theater Nov 2012 Director Revisions by Josh Lewis Atlantic Stage 2 (Alumni Event) Dec 2013 Director & Set Designer & Advance Guard* by Ming Peiffer Spookfish/Horse Trade Theater Group May 2013 Producer Director & Set Designer & Pornography for the People* by Ming Peiffer HERE Arts/Downtown Urban Theater Fest Mar 2013 Producer Spookfish/Horse Trade/The Kraine Theater Sept 2012 Spookfish/Theater for the New City Aug 2012 Assistant Director Night Before Christmas* by Lindsay Joy Roy Arias Stages Feb 2013 (Director: Charles Goforth) Murphy Assistant Director Blinded by the Night* by Shira-Lee Shalit Roy Arias Stages (Director Charles Goforth) Feb 2013 (Director: Charles Goforth) Assistant Director Hand Over Hand* by Padraic Lillis Roy Arias Stages (Director Charles Goforth) Feb 2013 (Director: Charles Goforth) Director & Set Designer & Relax! Alice* by Ming Peiffer Spookfish/MITF/June Havoc Theatre July 2012 Producer Spookfish/Under St. Marks Theater Oct 2011 Director & Playwright The Talk by Kat Yen LAByrinth Theater (Workshop Ensemble) June 2012 Director Anything Goes When Famous by Lisa Reinke Primary Stages ESPA/Jimmy’s No. 43 June 2012 Director & Producer Homeless Kitty by Ming Peiffer NYC Subway Sept 2010 Director & Set Designer & Wabi Sabi! Not Wasabi* by Ming Peiffer Spookfish/Theater for the New City Aug 2010 Producer Co-Director w/ Eamon O’Rourke The Privilege of Death* by Eamon O'Rourke Gene Frankel Theatre Aug 2009 Assistant Producer Septimus and Clarissa* by Ellen McLaughlin Ripe Time/Red Bull Theater/Classic Stage June 2009 Assistant Producer Fulanos by Gerardo Hochman El Museo del Barrio/Compañía La Arena July 2009 Assistant Producer M3 – A Space Odyssey by Fernando Teatro Stage Fest/Mr.Kubik Producciones July 2009 Sánchez-Cabezudo Assistant Producer Animals of Brazil by Beto Andreetta & Teatro Stage Fest/Pia Fraus July 2009 Beto Lima Assistant Producer August Wilson’s Women* by Lorna Littleway Juneteenth Legacy/Nuyorican Poets Café June 2009 Stage Manager This Place is a Desert by Jay Scheib The Public Theater (Under the Radar) Jan 2008 Assistant Stage Manager The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Mozart New Jersey Opera/The McCarter Theatre July 2007 * denotes world premiere

WORKSHOP PRODUCTIONS

Director The Two Sisters; or The Devil by Christopher Puglisi The Wild Project/SipFest Mar 2018 Beats His Wife Director Lipstick Lobotomy (excerpt) by Krista Knight New Georges at Dixon Place May 2017 Director & Set Designer Usual Girls by Ming Peiffer Ensemble Studio Theater/Bloodworks June 2016 Signature Theatre/Columbia University MFA Apr 2016 Director & Set Designer Aokigahara/Dontlookforme by Ming Peiffer Spookfish/Yangtze Repertory Theatre Mar 2015

STAGED READINGS

Director I Am This For You by Emily Gardner Rising Circle Theater Collective/Sheen Center June 2018 Xu Hall Director The Lovelies by Analisa Velez Cherry Lane Theater July 2017 Director Temple By The Sea by Christopher Núñez Torn Page Mar 2017 Producer The Opening of Mrs. Diaz by Mark Levine Spookfish Theatre Company/Kraine Theater Nov 2015 Director Lord of Florida by Nathan Dennis University/The Flea Theater May 2015 Producer Astral Princess Saves Mankind by Dominic Spookfish Theatre Company/The Wild Project July 2014 Finnochiaro Director West of Prohibition by Anderson John /The Flea Theater Apr 2014 Heinz Director Mocha by Eleanor Burgess Horse Trade Theater Group May 2013 Director Speed the Play by David Ives Primary Stages ESPA Feb 2013 Director Time Flies by David Ives Primary Stages ESPA Feb 2013 Director Degas C’est Moi by David Ives Primary Stages ESPA Feb 2013 Director Cloud Tectonics by José Rivera Horse Trade/Red Room Theater Mar 2013 Strange Dog Theatre Dec 2012 Director Alice’s Adventures in a New World by Sarah Sigal Horse Trade Theater Group Dec 2012

WORKSHOPS

Director Myling (excerpt) by Krista Knight New Georges Director’s Jam Nov 2016 Director Myrrha (excerpt) by Ming Peiffer New York Theater Workshop 2050 Fellows Dec 2016

ACADEMIC THEATER PRODUCTIONS

Director/ Writer/ Actor This Is Not Art; It's Just Asian by Kat Yen Yale Cabaret Apr 2019 Director Othello by Shakespeare Yale School of Drama Feb 2019 Director/Set Designer Shoot Her Shooter by Margaret Douglas Yale School of Drama Nov 2018 Director Fade by Tanya Saracho Yale Cabaret Sep 2018 Director & Set Designer The Two Sisters; or The Devil by Christopher Yale School of Drama Feb 2018 Beats His Wife Puglisi Director & Set Designer Oleanna by David Mamet Colgate University May 2009 Director Angels in America: Millennium by St. Andrews University May 2008 Approaches Director & Set Designer Blasted by Sarah Kane Colgate University Dec 2007

SELECTED AWARD NOMINATIONS & PRESS

Fade http://www.newhavenreview.com/blog/index.php/2018/9/office-politics Spookfish Theatre Company: http://alist-magazine.com/home/spookfish-theater/ Usual Girls: http://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/playwrights/class-of-2016/ming-peiffer/ References to Salvador Dali Make me Hot: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/10/27/references-to-review/ http://www.harvardindependent.com/2015/10/references-to-salvador-dali-make-me-hot/ Nowhere/Now-Here: http://www.leseco.ma/les-cahiers-des-eco/weekend/250-culture/34618-theatre-sans-frontieres.html (in French) i wrote on ur wall and now i regret it: http://nytheaternow.com/Content/Article/i-wrote-on-ur-wall-and-now-i-regret-it http://en.sinovision.net/i-wrote-on-ur-wall-and-now-i-regret-it/ The ABC’s Guide to Getting Famous: http://culturalcapitol.com/2012/11/25/the-abcs-guide-to-getting-famous/ http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/2012/11/27/at-red-room-memoirs-of-an-actors-guild-geisha/ http://www.nytheatre.com/Review/di-jayawickrema-8102013-the-abcs-guide-t Advance Guard: https://culturalcapitol.com/2013/05/17/on-advance-guard-by-ming-peiffer/ http://goseeashowpodcast.com/2013/05/13/ming-peiffer-playwright-and-kat-yen-director-of-advance-guard/ http://nytheatre.com/Review/martin-denton-2013-5-9-advance-guard Relax! Alice: N.Y. Times Headliner for Midtown International Theater Festival Nominated for five awards including “Outstanding Production of a Play” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/theater/theater.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&ref=theater&adxnnlx=1338700411-JdRDCijIKeY/8P6tKtWB3A http://oscaremoore.com/relax-alice-at-mitf Wabi Sabi! Not Wasabi: N.Y. Times Headliner for Dream Up Festival – called “Aware” http://blog.angryasianman.com/2010/08/spookfish-theatre-company-presents-wabi.html

SPECIAL SKILLS

Languages: Speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese Music: Piano (Certified Instructor since 2004); Violin (Certified Instructor since 2006) Visual Arts & Crafts: Oil-Painting; Stained Glass-Making