Ming Peiffer | |
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| Born | 1988  |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Writer, playwright |
| Website | https://mingpeiffer.com/ |
Ming Peiffer (born circa 1988) is an Asian American playwright and was the first Asian American woman playwright to be nominated for a Drama Desk Award. [1] She was also a New York Theater Workshop 2050 Fellow [2] and a runner up for the 2016 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award. [3]
Peiffer grew up in Columbus, Ohio. [4] [5] She has a Taiwanese mother and a white father. [1]
In 2010, Peiffer graduated from Colgate University with a Bachelor's degree in Theater Arts and Mandarin Chinese. [6] In 2016, Peiffer graduated with a master's degree from the Columbia University School of the Arts's playwriting program. [7] [8]
In 2016, Peiffer's play i wrote on ur wall and now i regret it came in second place for the Kennedy Center's Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award. [3] Peiffer wrote for the 2017 Netflix show Gypsy. [8] Also in 2017, a play Peiffer had written about a half-Korean half-white girl coming of age in 1980s Ohio – Usual Girls - was nominated for The Kilroy's List.
In 2018, Usual Girls was featured in The New York Times Critic's Pick [9] and its run was extended twice at the Roundabout Theater Company. [8] [4] Usual Girls was also nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play in 2019. [10]
Peiffer also wrote for the 2020 Netflix show Locke & Key. [8] On August 18, 2020, "Finish the Fight" – a virtual play written by Peiffer – premiered as part of The New York Times Events. [11] "Finish the Fight" was commissioned by The New York Times for the 19th Amendment centennial. [12] [5] In September 2020, Peiffer tweeted about how she quit writing for Netflix's show Grand Army due to racism. [13] [14]
In 2021, Peiffer's short play about an Asian dominatrix and her white client was featured for the Wrath portion of the 2021 New York iteration of Moisés Kaufman's "Seven Deadly Sins." [15] Ngozi Anyanwu, Thomas Bradshaw, and Bess Wohl were also featured playwrights for that iteration of "Seven Deadly Sins." [15]
In 2022, Peiffer, alongside writers Jihan Crowther, Joanna Castle Miller, Gina Young, Anna Ziegler, and Tyler English-Beckwith, worked on the short play anthology – Keep This Far Apart - which focuses on 6 women's experiences and was directed and filmed by an all-female production team over Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [16] [17] [18]
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