In “King of the Yees,” the uber-meta, autobiographical tale chronicling playwright Lauren Yee’s relationship to her father and San Francisco’s Chinatown, Francis Jue plays the story’s patriarch, Larry Yee. This marks the actor’s return to the role after several years of playing him in regional productions across the country since its Chicago premiere at the Goodman Theater in 2017.

I had the privilege of seeing that production with my mother when she came to visit me in college. The play found me when I needed it the most, as a junior in my BFA theater program craving stories from other AANHPI voices.