Roseann Lake is an American journalist, former Beijing resident, and the director of "The Leftover Monologues." After spending three years researching a book on China's leftover women, Roseann wanted to hand the mic back to the voices that had inspired her work. She developed this play as a way of creating a platform through which some of China's boldest voices could share their stories with a live audience. It is Roseann's small hope that these monologues will spark dialogs; dialogs that force a hearty reappraisal of how women are assessed in Chinese society; dialogs that drive to the core of Chinese women’s’ battles with duty and desire, and dialogs that lend new importance to the basic human right to live authentically, and to love. Her book will hit the stands in 2017 and is being published by W.W. Norton in the US and Beijing Standway Books in China. She completed a TEDx talk about China's leftovers, which can be viewed on Youtube and on Youku.