Matthew Chong is a first generation Korean-American playwright. His work explores how oppressive systems can make its victims complicit in their own oppression. His plays include The Aughts (Yale Cabaret), Lessons (The Kennedy Center's Michael Kanin Playwriting Award), Jung (Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival), and Plague Year (Red Bull Theater’s Short New Play Festival). He assisted Scott Rudin during the Broadway productions of Three Tall Women and To Kill A Mockingbird; he has also worked in television production at MTV and Netflix. He is an MFA playwriting candidate at the Yale School of Drama.
