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Kit Yan is a Yellow American New York based artist, born in Enping, China, and raised in the Kingdom of Hawaii.  They are a Vivace Award winner for big ideas in musical theater, a 2020 Musical Theater Factory Makers Fellow, a 2020 Playwright’s Center fellow, 2020 Company One/Pao Arts Fellow, 2020 Lincoln Center Writer in residence, and former Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow and MacDowell Fellow.

Their works include Interstate, which won "Best Lyrics" at the 2018 New York Musical Theater Festival, Queer Heartache which won 5 awards at the Chicago and SF Fringe Festivals, and Miss Step which received a first draft commission from 5th Avenue theater. Their work has been produced by the American Repertory Theater, the Smithsonian, NAMT, Musical Theater Factory, the New York Musical Festival, Mixed Blood, and Diversionary Theater. 

Kit’s collaborator, Melissa Li, is a composer, lyricist, bookwriter, and performer based in
NYC and Baltimore. She is a recipient of the Jonathan Larson Award, a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellow, a Lincoln Center Theater Writer-in-Residence, a 2019 Musical Theatre Factory Maker, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, a Company One Pao Arts Fellow, and a former Queer|Art|Mentorship Fellow. Musicals include Interstate (Mixed Blood Theatre, New York Musical Festival Winner “Outstanding Lyrics”), Miss Step, Cancelled (Keen Company), May Day, Surviving the Nian (TheTheater Offensive, IRNE Award Winner for "Best New Play" 2007), and 99% Stone. Her works have received support from 5th Avenue Theatre, The Village Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Musical Theater Factory, Playwrights Horizons, Keen Company, Weston Playhouse, NewYorkRep, Company One Theatre, National Performance Network, and New England Foundation for the Arts, among others.