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| Born | 1990 (age 33–34) Hong Kong |
| Occupation | Dramatist |
| Children | 1 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 楊靜安 | ||||||||||
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Dr Jingan MacPherson Young/Yang/Yeung (Chinese: 楊靜安) is a Hong Kong born award-winning playwright, screenwriter, film scholar and journalist.
She is the daughter of John Dragon Young (1949–1996), a scholar of Chinese history and politician in Hong Kong.
She is represented by Curtis Brown (agency).
Education
Jingan was educated at King's College London with a BA (Hons) in English and Film Studies and Kellogg College, Oxford with a Master of Studies in Creative Writing. She also holds a Foundation in Art from Parsons School of Design. In 2020, she successfully completed a PhD in Film Studies at King's College London.
Career
Her book Soho on Screen, the first study of London's Soho in film was published by Berghahn Books in May 2022 with a foreword by Peter Bradshaw.
She is the editor of the groundbreaking 'Foreign Goods: A Selection of Writing by British East Asian Artists', the first collection of British East Asian plays published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Books.
She was previously a Lecturer in Screenwriting at Birkbeck, University of London.
She is a regular contributor to the Guardian on film where she writes on a variety of topics including East Asian representation, China and Hollywood, such as on Pixar's "Turning Red."
She wrote episode 4 and was a story consultant on the ITVX and Bad Wolf thriller Red Eye (2024 TV series) starring Jing Lusi and Richard Armitage. She is currently working on series 2.
References
- https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/youngsoho. Retrieved 18 December 2024 – via www.berghahnbooks.com.com.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/foreign-goods-9781786823588. Retrieved 18 December 2024 – via www.bloomsbury.com.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/14/why-ditching-the-china-film-market-wont-hurt-asian-representation-on-film.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help)| title="Why ditching the China film market won’t hurt Asian representation on film"|date=14 March 2022}]. - https://www.itv.com/presscentre/media-releases/itv-commissions-high-octane-thriller-red-eye-premiere-itvx.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - https://filmhounds.co.uk/2024/04/audiences-love-to-root-for-the-underdog-jingan-young-talks-itvs-red-eye/.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help)| title=“Audiences love to root for the underdog” — Jingan Young Talks ITV’s Red Eye|date=17 April 2024}].
"Playwright pens tale of Hong Kong and its expat 'filth'", South China Morning Post, 22 December 2013 .
External links
- Jingan Young at IMDb