About Eugenie Chan
ECTP's Artistic Director & Playwright
 Photo: Joe Zygaj
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Eugenie Chan is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work has been produced or developed across the United States, including at the Asian American Theater Company, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Centenary Stage, Crowded Fire, Cutting Ball, East West Players, Group Theater, Houston Grand Opera: HGOco, Magic Theatre, Ma-Yi, Northwest Asian American Theatre, Pan Asian Rep, Perishable, Playwrights Horizons, the Public, San Francisco Mime Troupe, and Thick Description.
Her film The Truer History of the Chan Family won the 2025 Tiger Tail Asian Film Festival Best First Time Female Filmmaker Award and is screening at film festivals across the country. Her screenplays have been seen at the Asians on Film, Berlin, Big Apple, Cinestory, Dis-Orient, Mill Valley, San Diego Asian, and Toronto Independent Film Festivals. She teaches at San José State University's Film and Theater Department and the University of San Francisco's Performing Arts & Social Justice Department, is playwright emerita at Cutting Ball Theater, and an alumna of the Crowded Fire R & D Lab, New Dramatists, and the Playwrights Foundation. B.A. Yale University; M.F.A. New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. |
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