Lloyd Suh
{{short description|American playwright}}
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|name=Lloyd Suh
|occupation=Playwright
|nationality=American
|education=Indiana University (BA)
The New School for Social Research (MFA)
|awards=Alpert Award in the Arts (2019)
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Lloyd Suh is an American playwright and the recipient of the 2019 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in theatre.{{Cite web|date=2019-04-04|title=Lloyd Suh {{!}} The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts|url=https://herbalpertawards.org/artist/2019/lloyd-suh|access-date=2020-07-22|website=herbalpertawards.org|language=en}} He is originally from Indianapolis, Indiana.{{Cite web|title=Lloyd Suh|url=https://playingonair.org/lloyd-suh|access-date=2020-07-22|website=Playing On Air|language=en-US}}
Career
His plays include: The Chinese Lady{{Cite web|title=Lloyd Suh Theatre Credits, News, Bio and Photos|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Lloyd-Suh/|access-date=2020-07-22|website=www.broadwayworld.com|language=en}}, The Far Country, Charles Francis Chan Jr's Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, Franklinland, the Wong Kids in the Secret of the Space Chupacabra Go!, American Hwangap, Jesus in India,{{Cite web|title=Jesus in India, by Lloyd Suh|url=http://magictheatre.org/past-productions/jesus-in-india-by-lloyd-suh|access-date=2020-07-22|website=magictheatre.org}} Great Wall Story and others.{{Cite web|title=Lloyd Suh|url=http://ma-yitheatre.org/labbies/lloyd-suh/|access-date=2020-07-22|website=Ma-Yi Theater Company|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Lloyd Suh theatre profile|url=http://www.abouttheartists.com/artists/303028-lloyd-suh|access-date=2020-07-22|website=www.abouttheartists.com}} These plays have been performed in the United States with Ma-Yi, the Play Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, La Mama ETC, Magic Theatre and the Denver Center Theatre Company. They have been performed internationally at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Manila and with the PCPA in Seoul, Korea.{{Cite web|last=Lark|first=The|title=Lloyd Suh {{!}} The Lark Staff|url=https://www.larktheatre.org/lloyd-suh/|access-date=2020-07-22|website=The Lark|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Lloyd Suh {{!}} New Dramatists|url=https://newdramatists.org/lloyd-suh|access-date=2020-07-22|website=newdramatists.org}} Starting in 2015, he has been a member of the Dramatists Guild Council. He joined The Lark as the Director of Artistic Programs in 2011. From 2005 to 2010 he was the Artistic Director of Second Generation and Co-Director of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab.
Suh was on the National Steering Committee for the creation of the first National Asian American Theatre Conference and the first National Asian American Theatre Festival.
He is an alum of EST's Youngblood and the Soho Rep Writer Director Lab. He received his BA from Indiana University and his MFA from the New School for Social Research.
Awards
In 2016, Suh received the Helen Merrill Award and in 2019 he was the recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. He was named one of the "50 to Watch" by the Dramatists Guild. In 2020 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow Award.{{Cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Lloyd Suh|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/lloyd-suh/|access-date=2020-07-22|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Lloyd Suh {{!}} Artists Repertory Theatre|url=https://artistsrep.org/artists/lloyd-suh/|access-date=2020-07-22|language=en-US}}
Suh was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play The Far Country.{{Cite web |date=2023 |title=Finalist: The Far Country, by Lloyd Suh |url=https://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/lloyd-suh |website=The Pulitzer Prizes}}
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Category:21st-century American dramatists and playwrights
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)