ETHAN LUK 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), an Honorable Mention for the 2026 Relentless Award, 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. Most recently, he was named a recipient of the Morgan Jenness Experiments in Playwriting Fellowship at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. 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. He received his A.B. from Princeton University, concentrating in Comparative Literature with certificates in Theater, Music Theater, Dance, and Creative Writing.
Photo by Kathryn Phillips from performance of Orestes in the Internet
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