Jingan Young
Dr Jingan MacPherson Young is a Hong Kong born playwright, screenwriter 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.
She is the daughter of John Dragon Young, a scholar of Chinese history and politician in Hong Kong.Career
Jingan was educated at King's College London with a BA 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.
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.
Her play LIFE AND DEATH OF A JOURNALIST premiered at VAULT FESTIVAL in February 2020.
She was named as a writer to watch amongst 200 broadcasting stars of the future by the BBC and Idris Elba as
She is a regular contributor for the South China Morning Post, and The Guardian.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.
