Jingan Young
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Jingan MacPherson Young | |
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| Born | 1990 (age 35–36) |
| 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 lives in the UK with her husband and two children.
She is represented by the Curtis Brown agency.
Education
[edit]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
[edit]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]
In 2025, Young was one of the co-writers on Counsels a BBC legal drama set in Glasgow; she contributed to the original writers’ room and wrote an episode.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "Cast confirmed for original new BBC drama Counsels as filming gets underway – Screen Scotland". September 2025. Retrieved 3 September 2025.