Jingan Young
Jingan MacPherson Young (Chinese: 楊靜安) is a Hong Kong born playwright 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.[1]
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. [2]
She is the daughter of John Dragon Young (1949–1996), a scholar of Chinese history and politician in Hong Kong.
She was educated at King's College London and Kellogg College, Oxford. She is currently reading for a PhD in Film Studies at King's College London.
She is a contributor for the South China Morning Post, London Review of Books and The Guardian.
She was named as a writer to watch amongst 200 broadcasting stars of the future by the BBC and Idris Elba as New Talent Hotlist 2017.