Stefani Kuo (郭佳怡) is a poet/playwright/performer and native of Hong Kong and Taiwan. She received her B.A. from Yale and her M.F.A. in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama. Her play on the Hong Kong protests, Final Boarding Call, was the winner of the 2021 Lead Ryan Fund for Emerging Women Writers’ Prize. Her play Wake was presented in the Yale Langston Hughes Festival 2022. Her play Pearl’s Beauty Salon was produced in May 2024 as part of the Yale Carlotta Festival. She has been commissioned by The Atlantic Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Roundhouse Theater, Yangtze Repertory Theater. Her work in creative non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times. As a performer, she was most recently seen in Arlington by Enda Walsh, directed by Bobbin Ramsey, as well as her one-woman show Moonie at the Yale Cabaret. (www.stefanikuo.com) (For more on Hong Kong http://parachute.substack.com)