Kit Yan

Yan has worked with collaborator Melissa Li on a production of Interstate at Mixed Blood Theatre Company in March 2020, a first draft commission of Miss Step from 5th Avenue Theatre, and a commission from Keen Company for a Keen Teens one act musical.

The story centers around Dash, a transgender spoken word performer, and his best friend Adrian, a lesbian singer-songwriter.

Their political and personal music touches Henry, a transgender teenage boy in a small Kentucky town.

Interstate tells the story of two transgender people at different stages of their journey and how they navigate love, family, masculinity, and finding a community in the social media era.

Residencies: Miss Step is a heartfelt 80s dance musical comedy featuring a transgender/non-binary (TGNB) cast, live aerobics, stunts, competition, and exercise.

Yan wrote a classic underdog story that portrays TGNB people as ordinary and extraordinary, defying all odds to sing, dance, compete, dazzle audiences, and find family in the most unexpected places.

T is an investigation into real trans lives and the oversimplified narratives that surround testosterone as hormone replacement therapy.

Residencies: Mr. Transman tells the story of Ariel, a moody trans/non-binary person in recovery, who unknowingly is entered into an alternative beauty pageant.

It relates the resilience of queer love in all its forms—like between cis and trans siblings, lovers, and pride parade attendees — in the face of societal and medical treatment barriers.

[3] As rising sealevels threaten locations touched by the Pacific Ocean in Hawaiʻi, the Philippines, China, and North America, four women give offerings of music, poetry and heartfelt testimonial to preserve the volcano, ocean, air and land for future generations.

Yan's first solo slam poetry show, Queer Heartache, premiered at the 2015 International Chicago Fringe Theater Festival.