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Frances Ya-Chu
Cowhig

Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Dramatist
Santa Barbara, CA
2019 USA Fellow

This award was generously supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
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Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig is an internationally-produced playwright whose work has been staged at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre of Great Britain, Manhattan Theater Club, the Goodman Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Trafalgar Studios 2 on the West End, and the József Katona Theater in Budapest. Cowhig was born in Philadelphia, and raised in Northern Virginia, Okinawa, Taipei, and Beijing. She received an MFA in Writing from the James A. Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas at Austin, a BA in Sociology from Brown University, and a certificate in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre from the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. She is currently a member of the Theater and Dance faculty at UC Santa Barbara, where she has the pleasure of mentoring undergraduate playwrights.

Portrait photo by Brian Awehali.

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  • Artwork by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
    Snow in Midsummer, 2018. Stage play. Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR.
  • Artwork by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
    The World of Extreme Happiness, 2013. Stage play. Royal National Theater, London, England.
  • Artwork by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
    Snow in Midsummer, 2017. Stage play. Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
  • Artwork by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
    410[GONE], a stage play. Crowded Fire Theater, San Francisco, CA.
  • Artwork by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
    The World of Extreme Happiness, 2014, Stage play. The Goodman Theater, Chicago, IL.
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