Lloyd Suh
(Photo by Karin Shook)

Award-winning playwright Lloyd Suh will join the Lewis Center for the Arts’ faculty at Princeton University in July. Suh, appointed as a professor of the practice, will teach introductory and advanced playwriting courses in a joint appointment in the Program in Theater and Music Theater and the Program in Creative Writing.

Suh is the author of The Heart Sellers, recently produced at Huntington Theatre and Milwaukee Rep, with upcoming productions at the Guthrie Theater, Aurora Theatre, Capital Stage, Theatreworks Palo Alto, Northlight Theater, and North Coast Repertory. His other plays include The Far Country, a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama; The Chinese Lady; Bina’s Six Apples; Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery; American Hwangap; and Jesus in India, among others.

A recipient of the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the Horton Foote Prize, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Suh served from 2005 to 2010 as the artistic director of Second Generation Theatre Company, and a co-director of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and from 2011 to 2020 as director of artistic programs at The Lark.

This past spring, Suh taught Intermediate Playwriting as a lecturer in the Lewis Center.

“We are delighted to welcome this extraordinary playwright into our community, who brings creative brilliance and passion for mentorship to us, as well as deep curiosity about how language, theater, and identity intersect with other fields of inquiry,” said Jane Cox, director of the Program in Theater and Music Theater. “This historic appointment, the first shared between the programs of theater and creative writing, will build on the work of playwrights R.N. Sandberg and Nathan Davis developing our focus on original works by our undergraduate students.”