(1957-08-11) August 11, 1957 (age 66) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation
Playwright, screenwriter, television writer, librettist, lyricist
Education
Stanford University (BA) Yale University (MFA)
Period
1980–present
Genre
Drama
Subject
Asian-American Identity Gender Politics
Literary movement
Contemporary Drama
Notable works
FOB The Dance and the Railroad Family Devotions M. Butterfly Golden Child Flower Drum Song (revival) Yellow Face Chinglish Soft Power
Spouse
Ophelia Y. M. Chong
(m. 1985; div. 1989)
Kathryn Layng
(m. 1993)
Children
2
David Henry Hwang
Traditional Chinese
黃哲倫
Simplified Chinese
黄哲伦
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Huáng Zhélún
Gwoyeu Romatzyh
Hwang Jerluen
Wade–Giles
Huang Chelun
IPA
[xwǎŋ ʈʂɤ̌lwə̌n]
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
Wong4 Zit3leon4
David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays FOB, Golden Child, and Yellow Face. Three of his works (M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, and Soft Power) have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
DavidHenryHwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York...
produced by her husband, DavidHenryHwang. In 1993, Layng married playwright DavidHenryHwang. They have two children, Noah David and Eva Veanne. They reside...
affair, M. Butterfly by DavidHenryHwang, premiered in 1988 and yet again as the film adaptation of the play directed by David Cronenberg was released...
Crow Flies (novel), by Jeffrey Archer As the Crow Flies (play), by DavidHenryHwang As the Crow Flies, a children's book by Elizabeth Winthrop As the...
based on the life of explorers: The Voyage (1992), with a libretto by DavidHenryHwang, was commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera for the 500th anniversary...
Title, and the British premiere of Yellow Face by American playwright DavidHenryHwang at The Park Theatre, London. Chan returned for its 2014 revival at...
by pop singer Angela Aki.[citation needed] With book and lyrics by DavidHenryHwang, Tesori's new musical Soft Power began performances at the Ahmanson...
(2014); Taylor Mac's A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (2017); and DavidHenryHwang and Jeanine Tesori's Soft Power (2020). ¹All listed dates are Prize...
Canopus in Argos) The Voyage (1990, premiered in 1992, libretto by DavidHenryHwang) White Raven (1991, premiered as O Corvo Branco in 1998, with Robert...
the 1988 Academy Awards. In 1987, DavidHenryHwang and John Dexter were casting for Hwang's play M. Butterfly. Hwang knew of Lone's Peking opera training...
Actors' Equity Association contract level. EWP’s mainstage is the DavidHenryHwang Theater, housed within the historic Union Center for the Arts in downtown...
France when the facts were revealed. The affair inspired American DavidHenryHwang's play M. Butterfly (1988), which was produced on Broadway. It was...
It opened on February 16, 2011 and closed on March 13, 2011 at the DavidHenryHwang Theater at the Union Center for the Arts in Downtown Los Angeles....
Off-Broadway again two years later in Rich Relations, written by DavidHenryHwang, at the Second Stage Theatre. In December 1989, Cates made her Broadway...
Bernardo Bertolucci and brought DavidHenryHwang to fame with her theatrical connections. Clients included DavidHenryHwang, John Lone, Joan Chen, Lou Diamond...
plot by playwright DavidHenryHwang (but retaining most of the original songs) was presented after a successful Los Angeles run. Hwang's story retains the...
such as the lead role in the 2011 world premiere of Chinglish, by DavidHenryHwang, at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. He has starred in many off-Broadway...
and musicals range from Shakespeare to Rodgers and Hammerstein to DavidHenryHwang. He is also known for his recurring role on the TV series Madam Secretary...
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