Elizabeth Wong (playwright)

Elizabeth Wong^[1] is a contemporary American playwright, television writer, librettist, theatrical director,^[2][3] college professor, social essayist,^[4] 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, starring Margaret Cho. She is a visiting lecturer at the College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, where her papers are archived,^[5] an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, USC School of Theater,^[6] and an associate professor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Dramatic Writing Program (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, Maria Irene Fornes and Mac Wellman.

Selected plays

• Letters to a Student Revolutionary^[7] (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, 1991), (New York Times Review 5/16/1991)^[8]
• Kimchee & Chitlins^[9] (West Coast Ensemble, 1994), (Los Angeles Times feature article 5/26/1992 ^[10]
• China Doll^[11] (Northwest Asian American Theatre, 1996)
• Let the Big Dog Eat (short play) (Humana Festival, Actors Theater of Louisville, 1998)^[12]
• Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King^[13] (children's play) (Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1991^{[citation needed]})
• Prometheus^[14] (children's play) (Denver Center Theater for the Performing Arts, 1999)
• The Happy Prince^[15] (children's play)
• Boid & Oskar^[16] (children's play) (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park)
• Aftermath of a Chinese Banquet
• Bill of (W)Rights^[17] (Minneapolis' Mixed Blood Theater, 2004)
• Alice Downsized
• Dating & Mating in Modern Times (Theatre Emory, 2003)^[18]
• 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)^[19]
• Bu and Bun
• Inside the Red Envelope
• Quickdraw Grandma (2004)^[20][21]
• 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),^[22][23]
• The Magical Bird: A Fabulous Filipino Folktail (musical), (Honolulu Theatre for Youth, 2007);^[24] Honolulu Star-News Bulletin review 4/27/07 ^[25]
• 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)

Selected awards

• Tanne Foundation Award (2007) for artistic achievement^[26]
• 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^[27]
• 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^[28]

References

External links

• Official Website

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