Yide (John) Cai
I came to Emory as a insecure, unsettled, yet ambitious freshman who liked writing but not sure what I could do with it. And I found playwriting to be a very speical and attractive major, so I decided to give it a try. The first year went really well. I enjoyed all my classes, and I was in a theater production that was going to Edingburgh, but then the pandemic came. It was a tough time, but it also made me certian that I wanted to do theater and playwriting. So, I started writing better and doing zoom theater. Then, finally things started to be back to normal, and a breakthrough point for me was the Macbeth production which inspired me to write even better and more committed to theater. Now, I'm ready to do theater full-time.
What's next? I'm applying and waiting to hear back from many internships and apprenticeships. Some are related to playwriting, and some are theater in general. I know that I'm going to do an internship with the German national theater in Weimar this November, and I have the interests of producers in China to produce my plays.
Favorite accomplishment? I brought a lot of my Chinese classmates and classmates who study German into the world of theater. Most of them had no experience with it, but they ended up loving it.
