Lloyd Suh (Playwright, THE FAR COUNTRY) is a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for The Far Country. In addition, Lloyd was the recipient of the 2022 Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award, the 2020 Horton Foote Prize and the 2019 Herb Alpert Award for Theater. His play The Chinese Lady premiered as a co-production by Barrington Stage Company and Ma-Yi Theater Company and was hailed as a New York Times Critics’ Pick during its New York run. It returned to NYC in a co-production between the Public Theatre and Ma-Yi in 2022. In the 2022-23 season, The Far Country premiered at the Atlantic Theatre and was also a New York Times Critics’ Choice, and  The Heart Sellers premiered at Milwaukee Repertory to rave reviews. His other plays include Charles Francis Chan Jr’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery produced by NAATCO; The Wong Kids in The Secret of the Space Chupacabra GO! produced by the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis and Ma-Yi Theatre; and Bina’s Six Apples produced by CTC and Alliance Theatre. Suh is currently under commission at The Huntington, Barrington Stage, and The Perelman Arts Center. 

An interview with playwright Lloyd Suh

As rehearsals were gearing up for The Chinese Lady, dramaturg Yiwen Wu (YW) posed a few questions to New York-based playwright Lloyd Suh (LS) about the reverence he has for Afong Moy, the value of …

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