Stefani Kuo
(she/her) is a playwright/performer and native of Hong Kong and Taiwan. She received her B.A. from Yale and is an MFA Playwriting Candidate at the Yale School of Drama. Currently based in New York, Stefani has worked in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Berlin, Provence, and the U.S. She has been an awardee of the Jerome fellowship, finalist for the National Playwrights Conference, Jerome fellowship at Lanesboro Arts Centre, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Van Lier New Voices Fellowship, NAP Series, DVRF Playwrights’ Program, semi-finalist for the Page 73 playwriting fellowship, Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, and the Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep. As a performer, she was most recently seen in Bedlam Theatre Company’s six-women production of King Lear at Bristol Riverside Theater Company, PA. She is fluent in English, French, Mandarin, and Cantonese. Her work in translation and non-fiction involve all four languages, and have appeared in China Hands, and the New York Times. She is currently commissioned to write a play for Roundhouse Theater Company in D.C. which will be produced in the spring of 2021.