Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Dustin Chinn

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2025

Dustin H. Chinn's plays include Colonialism Is Terrible, But Phở Is Delicious and Snowflakes, or Rare White People. At MacDowell, Chinn revised two plays inspired by 12 years of scuba diving: Boat Show, drawn from the subculture of liveaboard cruises and a thought experiment on the future of ecotourism; and Colonialism is Terrible, But Phở is Delicious. He also inched closer to first drafts of two new ones, tentatively titled We Could Have Settled Here and The Last Seafari.

Studios

Banks

Dustin Chinn worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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