Janice Poon

Meet the playwrights who are contributing to the Around-the-Globe Chain Play.

Janice Poon (Hong Kong) Janice Sze Wan POON is a writer and theatre professional based in Hong Kong. She was awarded the Asian Cultural Council Lee Hysan Foundation fellowship to pursue research on dramaturgy and new play development in the United States for twelve months in the year 2010-11, during which she was a resident artist at the Lark Play Development Center. Her international engagements include the International Playwrights’ Forum of the International Theatre Institute, the Billy Rose Theatre collection at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts as a China Archivist for Theatre Without Borders. Back home, she is the founder and Artistic Director of Hong Kong Dramatists and a founding member of the New Writing Lab at Onandon Theatre Workshop. Ms. Poon started her professional career as an art and cultural journalist for Ming Pao Daily News, Hong Kong’s most widely distributed newspaper. She distinguished herself by establishing the first literary department in Hong Kong theatre and an active cultural worker in Hong Kong working also in the capacities as a playwright, director, culture writer, performer and curator. Ms Poon has edited six publications on Hong Kong theatre and culture. She’s keen to introduce contemporary theatre writing to Hong Kong with productions of Crave by Sarah Kane (UK, 2006), Death and the Maiden by Elfriede Jelinek (Austria, 2008), God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza (France, 2011) and Pornography by Simon Stephens (UK, 2013). She has curated and conceived site-specific performances at local bookshops for the Hong Kong People’s Fringe Festival. Ms Poon is committed to new play development and cross-disciplinary theatre productions. Five of her plays were presented in the Hong Kong Playwright Scheme and her plays were developed internationally in New York and London. Her play, The Room, was selected as part of the “30 Plays Celebrate 30 Years” festival of the League of Professional Theatre Women in New York in 2012.

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Join us on World Theatre Day, Wednesday, March 27th at 7PM at The Lark Play Development Center (311 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10036)

Tickets are free, but reservations are strongly encouraged. www.eventbrite.com 

A reception follows the reading.