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Jingan Young
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). EducationJingan 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. CareerHer 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
"Playwright pens tale of Hong Kong and its expat 'filth'", South China Morning Post, 22 December 2013.[1] External links
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