Han Ong is a playwright and novelist living in New York. He is the author of more than two dozen works for the stage, which have been produced at the Almeida Theatre (London), the Joseph Papp Public Theatre (NYC), Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Magic Theater (SF), and other venues.
For his playwriting, he was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship in 1997, at the age of 29--one of the youngest recipients in the program's history. His novels are Fixer Chao (2001) and The Disinherited (2004), both published by FSG. And his stories are in The New Yorker, Conjunctions, and Zoetrope: All-Story.
He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, and the winner of a Berlin Prize, from the American Academy in Berlin.
During his 2024 MacDowell residency, he worked on two novels-in-progress.
