Mia Chung (USA)

is a writer for theatre, film, and TV.
Her play CATCH AS CATCH CAN premieres in Chicago in 2026 as part of Steppenwolf’s 50th season and will be published in a special edition of THEATER magazine (Spring 2026, Yale).  The play also premiered at Playwrights Horizons in 2022 and had an Off-Off-Broadway world premiere with Page 73 in 2018.
Her debut play YOU FOR ME FOR YOU had a UK premiere at the Royal Court in 2015 and is published by Bloomsbury Methuen.  Additional productions: National Theatre Company of Korea, Woolly Mammoth in DC, multiple U.S. regionals.
She received a 2024 MacDowell fellowship, a 2023 Whiting Award for Drama, and a 2022 MAP grant for a new music-theatre work.
She has a BA from Yale University, an M.Phil from Trinity College Dublin, and an MFA from Brown University.

Mia Chung’s plays are a hall of mirrors that catch and fracture masks of sympathy and trust, and in the doublings that she revels in, the tartly comic shades swiftly toward the wrenching. Her antic, exquisitely controlled experimentation with the dramatic form pries apart ideologies of nationhood and resistance — including those tiny nations we call family. —Whiting Award citation

I wish I could give a sense of how perfect Catch as Catch Can is, how deft it is at capturing first our attention . . . and then worming its way into senses deeper down. —Helen Shaw, The New Yorker