Catherine Yu is a writer of plays and librettos. Her plays include In Spite of My Ambivalence (2025 Venturous finalist); Alice Wareham and the Fabulation of Time (2025 Screencraft Stage Play Competition Quarterfinalist); In Love and Friendship (2023 Austin Film Festival Second Round); Le Jeté (2019 BAPF Semifinalist); The Day is Long to End (2018 University of Florida production); and The Sun Experiment (FringeNYC Excellence in Playwriting; Time Out NY’s Top Ten Nightlife and Music Events of the Week in August 2014). She has held fellowships at NYSCA/NYFA, MacDowell, Soho Rep, and New York Theatre Workshop. Her one-act “A Sand Romance” was a 2016 Heidman Award finalist. She has served as a grants panelist for NYSCA/NYFA,  the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Brooklyn Arts Council. As an educator, she has worked as a university lecturer, a GED tutor for federal prison inmates, an ESL tutor in China and a tutor to elementary school children.  She writes grants for a museum . A New Yorker based in Chicago, she is a resident playwright with Chicago Dramatists. Catherine was commissioned for librettos by Atlanta Opera and Strange Trace in 2023. Her novel-in-progress was supported by a 2023 Illinois Arts Council grant. She will be a 2025-2026 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University and a Confluence Writers Project Fellow. BA: Stanford University. MFA: New York University.