"As a director, I was able to journey into these plays, find myself, and realise the worlds the playwrights have written…I find my inspiration and my passion in other writers and their versions of this country and this world."
Chay Yew is a playwright and stage director who was born in Singapore. He was artistic director of the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago from 2011 to 2020.
Chay Yew is a playwright and stage director who was born in Singapore. He was artistic director of the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago from 2011 to 2020.
View all quotes by Chay Yew"The reasons that I stayed in theater are very personal. I think Asian-American stories can be best served in a place where you can tell them the most, and for me, where I can see that happening is in novels and in plays, because its more easily done. In plays, anyone can do it, so the opportunities to tell Asian-American stories are infinite…"
"I probably am a playwright first, and a director second. But, since I do a lot of directing sometimes, its an almost equal thing. Writing is very exciting to me because Im able to control the world that I want to create. And, as a director, you go into another world, and you kind of help flesh out a world that other people have created..."
"The dramaturgy of audiences and communities is crucial: how they think, how they hear stories, how they relate to the theatre…That was an interesting curve. Not having lived in the Midwest, I found that it’s segregated, it’s tribal."