ETHAN LUK (he/him) was born and raised in Hong Kong. He thinks and works across performance, writing, and image-based mediums. His work has been recognized by 92Y, The Kennedy Center, One Teen Story, and The Adroit Journal among others. His writing is published in Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Asia Art Archive, Sine Theta Magazine, and Verve Poetry Press among others. His play Flight of a Legless Bird was named a finalist at the 2023 National Playwrights Conference (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center) and the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival (Playwrights Foundation). 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 graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. 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 currently a first-year student at the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School and a Pedagogies of Site fellow at Dia Art Foundation.
Photo by Kathryn Phillips from performance of Orestes in the Internet
email: ethanjoshualuk@gmail.com
instagram: @ejluk