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蔡逸得 | Yide Cai was born in Shenzhen, China, a young and adventurous city which he calls the America of China. His parents moved to Shenzen and built a life from nothing, raising Cai as one of the first generation of people to grow up in this new city full of migrants from other parts of China. Cai has a little brother who is eight years his junior, and because of the single-child policy, his parents had to pay a fine to give birth to him. His family are Christians which is a minority group in China under the surveillance of the Chinese government. He saw live theater for the first time when he went to high school in Philadelphia; ironically, it was the opera Turandot. He later went to Emory University, becoming the first college student of his family. During college, he lived through the entirety of the pandemic and discovered his passion in theater, particularly playwriting. He graduated with a BA in Playwriting & German Studies, with his plays included in festivals such as KCACTF, WTP Table Series, Kanini fest, and NSYPF. After spending a year back in China, he is starting his MFA in Playwriting at Boston University in 2024.