Hong Kong playwright
Dr Jingan MacPherson Young/Yang/Yeung () 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.
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"Playwright pens tale of Hong Kong and its expat 'filth'", South China Morning Post, 22 December 2013.