Jingan Young
Jingan MacPherson Young | |
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| Born | 1990 (age 34–35) Hong Kong |
| Occupation | Dramatist |
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| Traditional Chinese | 楊靜安 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 杨静安 | ||||||||||
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Dr Jingan MacPherson Young/Yang/Yeung (Chinese: 楊靜安) is a Hong Kong born award-winning playwright, screenwriter, film scholar and journalist. She is best known for writing for the ITV hit series Red Eye.
She is the daughter of John Dragon Young (1949–1996), a scholar of Chinese history and politician in Hong Kong.
She is represented by the Curtis Brown agency.
Education
Jingan was educated at King's College London, earning a BA (Hons) in English and Film Studies, and at Kellogg College, Oxford, earning a Master of Studies in Creative Writing. She also holds a Foundation in Art from Parsons School of Design. In 2020, she completed a PhD in Film Studies at King's College London.
Career
Young's book Soho on Screen, the first study of London's Soho in film, was published by Berghahn Books in May 2022 with a foreword by Peter Bradshaw.[1]
She is the editor of the groundbreaking Foreign Goods: A Selection of Writing by British East Asian Artists, the first collection of British East Asian plays published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Books.[2]
She was previously a Lecturer in Screenwriting at Birkbeck, University of London.
Young is a regular contributor to the Guardian on film, where she writes on a variety of topics including East Asian representation, China and Hollywood, such as Pixar's Turning Red.[3]
She wrote episode 4 and was a story consultant on the ITVX and Bad Wolf thriller Red Eye starring Jing Lusi and Richard Armitage.[4] [5] She returned to write on Series 2.[6]
References
- ^ Young, Jingan (2022). Soho on Screen: Cinematic Spaces of Bohemia and Cosmopolitanism, 1948-1963. doi:10.3167/9781800734777. ISBN 978-1-80073-477-7. Retrieved 18 December 2024 – via www.berghahnbooks.com.com.
- ^ https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/foreign-goods-9781786823588. Retrieved 18 December 2024 – via www.bloomsbury.com.
{{cite news}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ Young, Jingan (14 March 2022). "Why ditching the China film market won't hurt Asian representation on film". TheGuardian.com.| title="Why ditching the China film market won’t hurt Asian representation on film"|date=14 March 2022}].
- ^ https://www.itv.com/presscentre/media-releases/itv-commissions-high-octane-thriller-red-eye-premiere-itvx.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ ""Audiences love to root for the underdog" — Jingan Young Talks ITV's Red Eye". 22 April 2024.| title=“Audiences love to root for the underdog” — Jingan Young Talks ITV’s Red Eye|date=17 April 2024}].
- ^ "Shoot starts on Red Eye S2". 25 February 2025.| title= Shoot starts on Red eye S2.
- "Update | Playwright pens tale of Hong Kong and its expat 'filth'". 22 December 2013.
External links
- Jingan Young at IMDb