About Chloé (she/her)
Called a “writer to watch” by The Globe and Mail‘s J. Kelly Nestruck, Chloé Hung was born and raised in Toronto, Canada and currently splits her time between Toronto and Brooklyn as a playwright and TV writer.
A graduate of NYU Tisch’s MFA in dramatic writing program, Chloé’s plays include All Our Yesterdays (Toronto Fringe Festival’s Patron’s Pick; Next Stage Theatre Festival); Issei, He Say (or the Myth of the First) produced by the New Jersey Repertory Company and workshopped at The Kennedy Center National New Play Network’s MFA Playwrights’ Workshop; Three Women of Swatow (Tarragon’s Playwrights Unit; recipient of RBC Emerging Playwrights Award; Artists At Play Readings) which had its world premiere with Tarragon Theatre and will have its second production with Centaur Theatre; Model Minority (Moving Arts’s MADlab; Banff Playwrights Centre, IAMA Theatre New Works Festival); The Whitening of Doctor Eleanor Chan (Factory Theatre workshop); and Alien of Extraordinary Ability (Geffen Theatre’s Writers Room; Great Plains Theatre Commons’ New Play Conference). She was named the recipient of IAMA Theatre’s Rhimes Unsung Voices Commission. She has been named a Core Writer fellow for Playwrights Center 2024-2027. This fall she’ll attend the Stratford Festival of Canada’s Playwrights Retreat.
In the film and TV world, Chloé has written on two Ava Duvernay-created TV series: Cherish The Day, and Queen Sugar (OWN). She wrote on The Watchful Eye for Freeform. Chloé has developed a TV series for a streaming service. She is a Film Independent Screenwriters Lab fellow for her feature Gem & Shaz. Her screenplays include A Glimpse of Sun(The Black List’s mini-lab, Fusion Film Festival finalist), and Untapped (Fusion Film Festival Finalist). Chloé’s short film Signal, which she wrote and directed was produced as part of Women In Film’s production program. She wrote and directed the short film, Gem & Shaz, with support from the Harold Greenberg Fund and will air on Crave TV. As an actor, she’s has performed in short films and theatre, including: Sisters (dir. Bo Shim), Drawing Duncan Palmer (dir. Rebeccah Love), and The One With Friends (dir. Ashley Griggs). Chloé also hosts the podcast Stories From My Grandma, now available on iTunes, where she interviews a people about their grandmother’s stories (it’s a few years old now but she’s still very proud of it and would love for you to listen to it. She hopes to revive this interview series one day).
When she’s not writing, she’s usually baking.
Photo by Dahlia Katz
Land Acknowledgement
Chloé Hung works mainly in what is now known as Toronto and New York City.
Tkaronto (Toronto) sits on Treaty 13 territory, the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishnaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples.
New York City sits on the unceded homeland of the Lenape people.
Chloé is grateful to be able to work on these lands. To learn more about the territory you work on visit www.native-land.ca