Ming Peiffer

Ming Peiffer (born circa 1988) is an Asian American playwright and was the first Asian American woman playwright to be nominated for a Drama Desk Award. She was also a New York Theater Workshop 2050 Fellow and a runner up for the 2016 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award.

Education In 2010, Peiffer graduated from Colgate University with a Bachelor's degree in Theater Arts and Mandarin Chinese. In 2016, Peiffer graduated with a master's degree from the Columbia University School of the Arts's playwriting program where she received mentorship under the direction of David Henry Hwang.

Career In 2016, Peiffer's play i wrote on ur wall and now i regret it came in second place for the Kennedy Center's Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award. and its run was extended twice at the Roundabout Theater Company. Usual Girls was also nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play in 2019.

Peiffer also wrote for the 2020 Netflix show Locke & Key. "Finish the Fight" was commissioned by The New York Times for the 19th Amendment centennial. In September 2020, Peiffer tweeted about how she quit writing for Netflix's show Grand Army due to racism.

In 2021, Peiffer's short play about an Asian dominatrix and her white client was featured for the Wrath portion of the 2021 New York iteration of Moisés Kaufman's "Seven Deadly Sins." Ngozi Anyanwu, Thomas Bradshaw, and Bess Wohl were also featured playwrights for that iteration of "Seven Deadly Sins."

Personal life Peiffer considers being mixed-race to be a strong part of her identity. Her mother is an immigrant from Taiwan and her father is white. She was born in New York and grew up in Columbus, Ohio.