Playwright

Aurorae Khoo currently has a play appearing at Ellis Island, written on commission from The Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty Foundation. Ms. Khoo also holds commissions from regional theater South Coast Repertory and Los Angeles-based Thumping Claw theater. She has written and produced episodes of the CBS shows “JAG” and “Walker, Texas Ranger” and developed an original drama pilot with Fox.

In 2001-02 she held a Bunting Fellowship in playwriting at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute. Her play “The Double Auntie Waltz” won the Kennedy Center’s Edgar L. Stevens Award for promising new American playwrights. Some of Ms. Khoo’s other plays have been produced and read around the country at venues including New Georges, East West Players, Playwrights Horizons through the National Young Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory, Ford Theater Center (LA), the Provincetown Playhouse, the Immigrants Theatre Project in New York City, Theater Mu in Minneapolis, on Theater Row (NYC) as part of the National Asian American Theater Festival, and the Friars of Beverly Hills.

Ms. Khoo earned an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University and a BA in East Asian Studies from Brown University, where she was also in the graduate playwriting workshop run by Aishah Rahman and Paula Vogel.

Ms. Khoo gives special thanks to Elana Greenfield and Jeannie Barroga for their invaluable dramaturgy during the development of “Fayette-Nam”.