ETHAN LUK (he/him) was born and raised in Hong Kong. He thinks and works across performance and writing. His writing is published in Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Asia Art Archive, ArtAsiaPacific, The Adroit Journal, Sine Theta Magazine, and Verve Poetry Press among others. His play Flight of a Legless Bird was named a finalist at the 2023 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival (Playwrights Foundation), and a recipient of the 2026 Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award. His play Dictionary of the Unsaid was named a finalist at the 2026 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and the 2025-26 Playwrights’ Realm Scratchpad Series. His work in dance includes an original, evening-length piece titled but me you have forgotten, and performing in new work or repertory by Merce Cunningham (reimagined by Silas Riener), Kyle Marshall, Susan Marshall, and Bill T. Jones. He received his A.B. from Princeton University, majoring in Comparative Literature and certificates in Theater, Music Theater, Dance, and Creative Writing. At Princeton, he was the recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts, the Robert and Lynne Fagles Senior Thesis Prize, the Theodore H. Holmes '51 and Bernice Holmes Poetry Prize, the Bain-Swigget Poetry Prize, and the University Center for Human Values Short Movie Prize. He is an alum of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School, Study Corps at the Strother School of Radical Attention, and the Pedagogies of Site fellowship at Dia Art Foundation.
Photo by Kathryn Phillips from performance of Orestes in the Internet
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