Jingan Young
Jingan MacPherson Young | |
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| Born | 1990 (age 33–34) Hong Kong |
| Occupation | Dramatist |
| Children | 1 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 楊靜安 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 杨静安 | ||||||||||
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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
[edit]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
[edit]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.[1]
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.[2]
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." [3]
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[4]. She is currently working on series 2. [5]
References
[edit]- ^ 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 [1].
External links
[edit]- Jingan Young at IMDb