Playwright

Preston
Choi

(he/they)

Preston Choi is a Korean and Irish American playwright and illustrator based in Los Angeles whose work explores Asian and mixed-race identities, queerness, and social science fiction. His plays have been developed with the National New Play Network, Round House Theatre, InterAct Theatre Company, Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists, The Kennedy Center, The Playwrights Realm, Artists at Play, Crowded Fire Theater, and Sideshow Theatre Company. Plays include Happy Birthday Mars Rover (The Passage Theatre), The Migratory Patterns of the North American Monarch Butterfly and the Development of Fatherless Sons (B Street Theatre), This Is Not a True Story (Artists at Play), and limp wrist on the lever (Crowded Fire Theater). Honors/Awards include the Agnes Nixon Playwrighting Award, Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, Planet Earth Arts Award, National Showcase of New Plays 2019 and 2021, and the love of his family. He has a Bachelor of Science in Theatre from Northwestern University and a Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting from University of California San Diego.