Liqing Xu | Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Liqing Xu

Faculty

Education
MFA, Hunter College
BFA, New York University

Liqing is a playwright and screenwriter. Their work has been developed/presented/supported by Theater Mu, Second Stage (in the Judith Champion New Voices series), the María Irene Fornés Institute Writers Workshop, The Orchard Project, the Sewanee Writers' Conference (as a Walter E. Dakin Fellow), Breaking the Binary Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Southern Theater, and CHUANG Stage, among others. They are a proud inaugural member of the Mu Tang Clan, previous mentor of the Mu Tang Clan Vol. 2, and member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab 2.0. Currently, they are working on a commission for the Sloan Foundation through Ensemble Studio Theatre. They are a Semi-Finalist for the 2022-2023 Princess Grace Award, the 2022-2024 WP Lab, the 2023 Disney General Entertainment Writing Program, and a Finalist for the Mentorship Matters BIPOC Initiative. In their former life as a creative executive, Liqing developed feature animated films for DreamWorks China, including ABOMINABLE and OVER THE MOON. Currently, she is a 2023-2025 Many Voices Fellow the Playwrights’ Center, and was previously a 2022-2023 Many Voices Fellow.