David Zheng

David Zheng is a first-generation Chinese American playwright and visual artist from the Bronx. He is the recipient of The Lark’s 2018 Van Lier New Voices Playwriting Fellowship, The 2017 Playwriting Observer Fellowship at Labyrinth Theater Company, and the 2017 inaugural Greenhouse Residency at SPACE on Ryder Farm. Plays include Ching Chong Maka Hiya, Kidnapping Jane Doe, Kingsbridge (Semi-finalist for O’neill NPC), Boogie Down Bastards, Ghetto Baptism, and What’s In The Tent? (Semi-finalist for O’neill NPC). His work has been developed at The Public Theater, MCC Theater, The Labyrinth Theater Company, Cherry Lane Theater Company, The Lark, and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. He is a member of the 2018-2019 Public Theater Emerging Writers Group, Ma-Yi Writers Lab and the Gingold Theatrical Group’s Speakers’ Corner. Zheng is also a founding member of the Middle Voice at Rattlestick.

Plays

What’s In The Tent?

Ching Chong Maka Hiya

Boogie Down Bastards