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David Yee is a Canadian actor and playwright. His play lady in the red dress was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language drama at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. His play carried away on the crest of a wave won this award at the 2015 Governor General's Awards.

Early life

Yee was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1] He is of Chinese and Scottish ancestry.[2] He graduated from the University of Toronto Mississauga theatre and drama studies program in 2000. Intending to pursue acting he focused instead on play writing.[3]

Career

His play lady in the red dress was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language drama at the 2010 Governor General's Awards.[4]

In 2011, his play paper Series was shortlisted for the 2011 Carol Bolt Award.[5] 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.[6] The play debuted in 2013 at the Tarragon Theatre; its American premiere was later that year in Fairfax, Virginia.[3]

In 2015, Yee received a nomination for the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Musical/Opera for Tapestry Briefs: Booster Shots (Tapestry Opera).[7] 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.[8]

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 in November 2016.[9]

Yee is a co-founder and current artistic director of fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company.[10][1] He is playwright-in-residence at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.[5]

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).[11]

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