Lloyd Suh is the author of American Hwangap (NYSCA Individual Artists Grant; Lark BareBones; McCarter Theatre Center IN-Festival, New York Stage & Film, Ojai Playwrights Conference), The Children of Vonderly (NYFA Playwriting Fellowship, produced by Ma-Yi Theatre Company – NY Times Critics’ Pick), The Garden Variety (South Coast Repertory commission), Masha No Home (first produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre; West Coast premiere at East West Players), and several shorter plays, including Not All Korean Girls Can Fly (EST Marathon), and With A Hammer & A Nail (EST/Thicker Than Water). Additional productions include performances at the Bowery Poetry Club (Vampire Cowboys), the New York International Fringe Festival (Youngblood at the Present Company Theatorium), Expanded Arts, West End Theatre (Prospect Theatre), Access Theatre, Bloomington Playwright’s Project, the Itzak Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall (2g Concert of Excellence), and theJudges Prize-winning entry in the 2nd Annual Battle of the Bards (Partial Comfort Productions).  He has received additional grants, awards and fellowships from the Dramatists Guild, the Jerome Foundation, the Lark Play Development Center, Second Generation, Pan Asian Repertory and the National Asian American Theatre Company (Lilah Kan Red Socks Award in recognition of an artist’s commitment to community service). His plays have been developed and workshopped at theatres including the Joseph Papp Public Theater, the Lark Play Development Center, the Asian American Writers Workshop, the Ohio Theatre, the Asia Society and New Dramatists.  As an actor, he has appeared at various NY theatres, and in principal roles in the feature films Year of the Fish (with Randall ‘Duk’ Kim and Ken Leung), and Dark Matter (dir. Chen Shi-Zheng, with Meryl Streep, Liu Ye, Aidan Quinn, Bill Irwin and Blair Brown), both of which premiered as official selections at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.  He has directed plays in development at Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Culture Project, Abingdon Theatre and HERE Arts Center, as well as the world premiere production of Michael Golamco’s Cowboy v. Samurai at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre (NAATCO). As Producer of Second Generation’s In the Works reading series, he has overseen the development of dozens of new plays by Asian American writers, including TEN, new ten-minute plays from established and early-career writers including David Henry Hwang and Julia Cho, at the Public Theater in 2007. Additionally, he served on the National Steering Committee in creating the first National Asian American Theatre Conference and the first National Asian American Theatre Festival. This January, he served as an official artist delegate to the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya and the inaugural US Social Forum in Atlanta.  Named one of “50 to Watch” by the Dramatists Guild this summer, he is currently serving as Resident Artist for Second Generation and Co-Director of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the largest resident company of Asian American playwrights ever assembled. He is a former member of Youngblood and the Lark Playwrights Workshop, and a lifetime member of Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Actors Studio. BA, Indiana University; MFA, New School for Social Research.