Mia Chung’s play Catch as Catch Can will have a Chicago premiere in June 2026 as part of Steppenwolf’s 50th season. The play was produced by Playwrights Horizons in Fall 2022; the world premiere was produced by Page 73 in Fall 2018. Her monologue Ball in the Air premiered in OUT OF TIME in Winter 2022, produced by NAATCO/The Public Theater. Her play Double Take appeared in Playwrights Horizons’ inaugural issue of ALMANAC in 2021. Her play You for Me for You had a United Kingdom premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, a Korean premiere at the National Theatre Center of Korea, a United States premiere at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, and multiple productions around the country. The play is published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama.
Chung has received awards, commissions, and residencies from Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Civilians’ R&D Group, Clubbed Thumb, Frederick Loewe Award in Music-Theatre, Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival, Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, JAW at Portland Center Stage, MacDowell, MTC/Sloan, the NEA, NYTW, Playwrights’ Center/Jerome, Playwrights Horizons/Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Commission, Playwrights Realm, South Coast Rep, SPACE/Ryder Farm, Stavis Award, TCG Global Connections, the Unicorn Theatre, and Whiting Foundation.
Her work is included in Fifty Playwrights on Their Craft (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2018), The Kilroys List: 99 Monologues by Female & Trans* Playwrights, Vol 1 (Theatre Communications Group, 2016) and The Best Women’s Stage Monologues of 2013 (Smith & Kraus).
She is an alumni member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the Huntington Theatre playwright fellows, and New Dramatists. She attended Yale (BA); the University of Dublin, Trinity College (MPhil); and Brown (MFA).