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Female creatives behind Queen Sugar; Photo by Oriana Koren; for The Lily

Female creatives behind Queen Sugar; Photo by Oriana Koren; for The Lily

For reviews of plays click on All Our Yesterdays and Issei, He Say

Film Independent Screenwriters Lab Deadline Announcement: Chloé was selected as one of six fellows for the Film Independent Screenwriters Lab for her feature Gem & Shaz

PlayMe Podcast interview: Chloé is interviewed by Chris Tolley on CBC’s PlayMePodcast as an accompaniment to the recording of Three Women of Swatow that was featured on PlayMe.

The TV Academy awards Queen Sugar among six shows the TV Academy Honors which recognizes exceptional television programs that are impacting society through thoughtful, powerful and innovative storytelling; Deadline reports

Justine Abigail Yu, Intermission Magazine (March 14, 2020) interviews Carolyn Fe, Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster, and Chloé about Three Women of Swatow. “The bigger picture of what the play is really about is these generations and how one generation influences the next. We explore what is inherited trauma and what it can do to future generations. It’s an ongoing process to break out of that mould.”

American Theatre: The Geffen announces their Writers Room fellows for 2019/2020. Chloé is named one of six playwrights chosen for a year long residency

The Lily (published by The Washington Post) writes about “The Sisterhood Behind Queen Sugar” featuring Chloé among several female creatives behind Queen Sugar.

Broadwayworld.com writes about Issei, He Say (or the Myth of the First) at the NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Workshop Festival

Broadway World NJ Interviews Chloé about the New Jersey Repertory Company’s world premiere production of Issei, He Say (or the Myth of the First)

Rebeccah Love, Toronto Arts Report (July 3, 2017) “Interview With Chloé Hung” On writing two plays about abuse with all-female casts: “Once a man walks on stage, the play is about him. But the core relationship I wanted to explore in these two plays weren’t the women’s relationships with the men, which were important aspects to both these plays, but they were the relationships between the women.”

OMNI News (January 5, 2017): TV News interview for OMNI Cantonese News. [Interview was conducted entirely in Cantonese; Chloé’s fluency was really put to the test]

Trish Crawford, The Toronto Star (Jan 7, 2016) “Kidnapped for crime of going to school”  On All Our Yesterdays: “I really felt so strongly about the story. It’s about the value of a girl. I wanted to explore how they are so far away they can slip out of our consciousness.”

Jon Kaplan, NOW Magazine (Jan 7, 2016) “Sib Survival” On why she wrote All Our Yesterdays: “It’s so easy for a writer to be alone in a room with a computer. Even if I’m saying great things, I want to do something, not simply echo people who moan about how terrible the kidnapping was.”

Kelly Bedard, MyEntertainmentWorld (Jan 3, 2016) “MyTheatre Award nominee: Chloé Hung” On why she writes about diverse topics: “That’s a nice way of saying: Living room dramas about middle class white families with a history of alcoholism are fine and all but I’m not going to write that. I’m not going to create a play about that subject matter better than Eugene O’Neill and there are already plenty of people who try. Besides, that’s not the reality I know.”

Bailey Green, In the Green Room (Jan 14, 2016) “In Conversation with Chloé Hung, from All Our Yesterdays at the Next Stage Theatre Festival” On the research for All Our Yesterdays: “So it was challenging to distill all of that information into a story that felt relatable,” Hung says, “and the way I wanted to approach that was using a story of two sisters and the injuries that siblings can do to each other.”

She Does the City (Jan 5, 2016) “All Our Yesterdays reminds us that Chibok Schoolgirls are still missing” “Powerful, moving, and enraging, All Our Yesterdays is a must-see performance that also serves as a reminder: while we may feel disconnected and helpless to tragedies near and far, we always have the choice to give back and do more.”

Addicted (Jan 15, 2016) “Addicted Inspirations – Chloé Hung” On who inspires her: “My mother and her mother and her mother’s mother. I come from a long line of working women who are strong willed and opinionated. They instilled in me the importance of a good work ethic. Nothing is going to be handed to you, you need to work hard.”