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Stefani Kuo (郭佳怡) 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.
Fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, French, and English, she crafts multicultural, multilingual narratives for an international audience. She has been an awardee of the Jerome Fellowship at PWC, Dramatist Guild Fellowship.
She has received commissions from the Rubin Museum, Roundhouse Theater, and Yangtze Repertory. Her play on the Hong Kong protests, Final Boarding Call was the winner of the 2021 Lead Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers’ Prize.
Her play Wake was presented in the Yale Langston Hughes Festival 2022.
Her play Pearl’s Beauty Salon will be produced in May 2024 as part of the Yale Carlotta Festival. She was a 2019 member of I-73, Page 73’s Writers Group.
Her work in non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times.
As a performer, she was most recently seen in her one-woman show Moonie this October at the Yale Cabaret. She was also seen in The Merry Wives of Windsor with Elm Shakespeare and The Betrayal Project at the Yale Summer Cabaret, which she co-created.