Elizabeth Wong (playwright)

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.

Elizabeth Wong
Born (1958-06-06) June 6, 1958
Los Angeles, California
OccupationPlaywright
Notable awardsTanne 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
elizabethwong.net

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
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  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-12. Retrieved 2008-05-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. http://www.athe.org/files/pdf/08ConfAwards.pdf%5B%5D
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-21. Retrieved 2010-03-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-07-08. Retrieved 2010-03-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Los Angeles Times: Archives". pqasb.pqarchiver.com.
  7. Elizabeth Wong on IMDb
  8. "Guide to the Elizabeth Wong Papers CEMA 16". www.oac.cdlib.org.
  9. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-11-29. Retrieved 2010-02-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-02-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. "Theater Reviews". 18 August 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  12. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-02-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. 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.
  14. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-02-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-09-17. Retrieved 2010-03-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  16. "Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King by Elizabeth Wong - Playscripts Inc". www.playscripts.com.
  17. "Prometheus by Elizabeth Wong - Playscripts Inc". www.playscripts.com.
  18. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-02-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  19. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2019-12-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  20. "Bill of (W)Rights by Janet Allard - Playscripts Inc". www.playscripts.com.
  21. "Emory University News Release - theater". www.emory.edu.
  22. http://www.actorstheatre.org/HUMANA%20FESTIVAL%20CDROM/heaven.html%5B%5D
  23. http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p1229/%22Quick-Draw-Grandma%22/product_info.html Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine (short play)
  24. "Ten Commandments Translation and '10 X 10' plays". LJWorld.com.
  25. "Home - Silk Road Rising". www.srtp.org.
  26. http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/onlinemagazine/2010march/khoury.html
  27. http://www.htyweb.org/playhistory.html%5B%5D
  28. Zimmerman, Jovy (April 27, 2007). "Filipino folk tale flies high". archives.starbulletin.com.
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