Elizabeth Wong (playwright)
Elizabeth Wong | |
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Born |
Los Angeles, California | June 6, 1958
Occupation | Playwright |
Nationality | USA |
Information | |
Awards | Tanne Foundation Award (2007) for artistic achievement;[1] Board of Supervisors, County of Los Angeles, Letter of Commendation (2009) for human rights advocacy; Outstanding Playwright Award (2009), Asian Pacific American Friends of Theatre; The Mark David Cohen National Playwriting Award (2001), Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts;[2] Lazarus New Play Prize for Young Audiences (1999); Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (1998), Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival and Association for Theatre in Higher Education[3] |
Website | http://www.elizabethwong.net/ |
Elizabeth Wong (born June 6, 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an award-winning[2] contemporary American playwright, television writer, librettist, theatrical director,[4][5] college professor, social essayist,[6] and a writer of plays for young audiences. Her critically acclaimed plays include China Doll (An Imagined Life of an American Actress) is a fictional tale of the actress, Anna May Wong; and Letters to A Student Revolutionary, a story of two friends during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Wong has written for television on All American Girl,[7] starring Margaret Cho, and is a visiting lecturer at the College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, where her papers are archived,[8] and she is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, USC School of Theater.[9] She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (1991) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California (1980). She studied playwriting with Tina Howe and Mac Wellman.
Selected Plays
- Letters to a Student Revolutionary[10] (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, 1991), (New York Times Review 5/16/1991)[11]
- Kimchee & Chitlins[12] (West Coast Ensemble, 1994), (Los Angeles Times feature article 5/26/1992 [13]
- China Doll[14] (Northwest Asian American Theatre, 1996)
- Let the Big Dog Eat (short play) (Humana Festival, Actors Theater of Louisville, 1998)[15]
- Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King[16] (children's play) (Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1991)
- Prometheus[17] (children's play) (Denver Center Theater for the Performing Arts, 1999)
- The Happy Prince[18] (children's play)
- Boid & Oskar[19](children's play) (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park)
- Aftermath of a Chinese Banquet
- Bill of (W)Rights[20] (Minneapolis' Mixed Blood Theater, 2004)
- Alice Downsized
- Dating & Mating in Modern Times (Theatre Emory, 2003)[21]
- The Concubine Spy
- Badass of the RIP Eternal (short play) (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, part of "Heaven and Hell on Earth: A Divine Comedy," 2002)[22]
- Bu and Bun
- Inside the Red Envelope
- Quickdraw Grandma (2004)[23][24]
- Punk Girls
- Reveries of an Amorous Woman
- Love Life of a Chinese Eunuch (2004)
- Ibong Adarna: Fabulous Filipino Folktale (children's play) (Mu Performing Arts, 2006)
- Finding Your Inner Zulu (short play) (Silk Road Theatre Project, part of "The DNA Trail," 2010),[25][26]
- The Magical Bird: A Fabulous Filipino Folktail (musical), (Honolulu Theatre for Youth, 2007);[27] Honolulu Star-News Bulletin review 4/27/07 [28]
- The Happy Prince (musical/opera), based on her adaptation (children's play) (From Page-to-Stage/Prelude New Play Festival, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2003)
References
- ↑ http://www.tannefoundation.org/award_elizabeth_wong.html
- 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
- ↑ http://www.athe.org/files/pdf/08ConfAwards.pdf
- ↑ http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/content/arts/1203/bestof03threater.html
- ↑ http://www.albany.edu/pac/07-08%20releases/letters%20to%20a%20student%20revolutionary.htm
- ↑ "Los Angeles Times: Archives". pqasb.pqarchiver.com.
- ↑ Elizabeth Wong on IMDb
- ↑ "Guide to the Elizabeth Wong Papers CEMA 16". www.oac.cdlib.org.
- ↑ http://www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat99/theatre/index.html
- ↑ http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p825/Letters-to-a-Student-Revolutionary/product_info.html
- ↑ "Theater Reviews". 18 August 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
- ↑ http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p777/Kimchee-and-Chitlins/product_info.html
- ↑ TORRES, VICKI (26 May 1992). "Prophetic Drama Evokes Some Jitters : Race relations: The play focuses on African-Americans and Korean-Americans, depicting boycotts, name-calling and beatings. It was written by a Monterey Park native before the recent unrest here" – via LA Times.
- ↑ http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p255/China-Doll-(The-Imagined-Life-of-an-American-Actress)/product_info.html
- ↑ http://www.actorstheatre.org/HUMANA%20FESTIVAL%20CDROM/bigdog.htm
- ↑ "Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King by Elizabeth Wong - Playscripts Inc". www.playscripts.com.
- ↑ "Prometheus by Elizabeth Wong - Playscripts Inc". www.playscripts.com.
- ↑ http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p610/The-Happy-Prince/product_info.html
- ↑ http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p167/Boid-&-Oskar/product_info.html
- ↑ "Bill of (W)Rights by Janet Allard - Playscripts Inc". www.playscripts.com.
- ↑ "Emory University News Release - theater". www.emory.edu.
- ↑ http://www.actorstheatre.org/HUMANA%20FESTIVAL%20CDROM/heaven.html
- ↑ http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p1229/%22Quick-Draw-Grandma%22/product_info.html (short play)
- ↑ "Ten Commandments Translation and '10 X 10' plays". LJWorld.com.
- ↑ "Home - Silk Road Rising". www.srtp.org.
- ↑ http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/onlinemagazine/2010march/khoury.html
- ↑ http://www.htyweb.org/playhistory.html
- ↑ Zimmerman, Jovy (April 27, 2007). "Filipino folk tale flies high". archives.starbulletin.com.