Canadian
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actor and playwright. His play ''lady in the red dress'' was a shortlisted nominee for the
Governor General's Award for English language drama
The Governor General's Award for English-language drama honours excellence in Canadian English-language playwriting. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama was divided.
Because the awar ...
Toronto
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,
Ontario
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, Canada. He is of Chinese and Scottish ancestry. He graduated from the
University of Toronto Mississauga
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theatre and drama studies program in 2000. Intending to pursue acting he focused instead on play writing.
Career
His play ''lady in the red dress'' was a shortlisted nominee for the
Governor General's Award for English language drama
The Governor General's Award for English-language drama honours excellence in Canadian English-language playwriting. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama was divided.
Because the awar ...
at the
2010 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2010 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 13, and winning titles were announced on November 16.Carol Bolt Award
The Carol Bolt Award is an annual Canadian literary award. Presented by the Playwrights Guild of Canada, the award is bestowed for a theatrical play premiere by a PGC member, judged to be the year's best. The award is named in memory of Canadian pl ...
. He won the 2013 Carol Bolt Award for Best Work Premiered by a Playwrights Guild of Canada member for his play ''carried away on the crest of a wave''. The play debuted in 2013 at the
Tarragon Theatre
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; its American premiere was later that year in
Fairfax, Virginia
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.
In 2015, Yee received a nomination for the
Dora Mavor Moore Award
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for Outstanding New Musical/Opera for ''Tapestry Briefs: Booster Shots'' (Tapestry Opera). His play ''carried away on the crest of a wave'' won the Governor General's Award for English language drama at the 2015 Governor General's Awards.
His play, ''acquiesce'', about a man plagued by the success of his first book and being haunted by his past, was performed at the
Factory Theatre
Factory Theatre is a theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded as Factory Theatre Lab in 1970 by Ken Gass and Frank Trotz, and it was run for almost 20 years by Dian English.
Factory was the first theatre to announce that it would ...
in November 2016.
Yee is a co-founder and current artistic director of fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company. He is playwright-in-residence at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.
His work has been published in the Asian-Canadian drama anthology ''Love & Relasianships'' (edited by Nina Lee Aquino) and the monologue book ''Refractions: Solo'' (edited by Yvette Nolan and Donna-Michelle St. Bernard).