Vichet Chum is a New York City-based writer from Carrollton, TX whose plays have been produced and workshopped all over.
He’s received the 2023 Lucille Bulger Service Award, the 2018 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting with New Dramatists, the 2021 Laurents/Hatcher Award, a 2021 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award for the world premiere of his play Bald Sisters (Steppenwolf Theatre, 2022), and a special state citation from the Massachusetts House of Representatives for his play KNYUM at Merrimack Repertory Theatre in 2018. He is currently a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop and a steering committee member for the Obie Award and Tony Award-winning organization, the Asian American Performers Action Coalition.
Past, notable writer/artist group involvement includes Roundabout Theatre Company’s Underground Fellows, the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference Fellows, the Resident Working Farm Group at Space on Ryder Farm, the Interstate 73 Writer's Group at Page 73, and the Ars Nova Play Group. Vichet's debut YA novel Kween was released in 2023 with Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
At MacDowell, Chum split his time working on edits for a screenplay adaptation of the book Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So and starting a new play commission for Yale Repertory Theatre.
Vichet Chum
Studios
Mansfield
Vichet Chum worked in the Mansfield studio.
The Helen Coolidge Mansfield Studio was donated by graduates of the Mansfield War Service Classes for Reconstruction Aides. Mrs. Mansfield helped found the New York MacDowell Club, which was among the biggest clubs by the same name around the country honoring the legacy of Edward MacDowell and supporting MacDowell. The small…