Elizabeth Wong (playwright)
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Elizabeth Wong is an award-winning contemporary American playwright, television writer, librettist, theatrical director, college professor, social essayist, 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
, and is a visiting lecturer at the College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, where her papers are archived, and she is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, USC School of Theater. 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
.
Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American to become an international star...
; and Letters to A Student Revolutionary, a story of two friends during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, also known as the June Fourth Incident in Chinese , were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square in Beijing in the People's Republic of China beginning on 15 April 1989...
. Wong has written for television on All American Girl, starring Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, and recording artist. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially those pertaining to race and sexuality. She has also directed and appeared in music...
, and is a visiting lecturer at the College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, where her papers are archived, and she is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, USC School of Theater. 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
Tina Howe
Tina Howe is an American playwright. She is the daughter of journalist Quincy Howe and was raised in a literary family...
and Mac Wellman
Mac Wellman
Mac Wellman is an American playwright, author, and poet. Wellman is best known for his experimental work in the theater which rebels against theatrical conventions, often abandoning such traditional elements as plot and character altogether...
.
Selected Plays
- Letters to a Student Revolutionary (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, 1991), (New York Times Review 5/16/1991)
- Kimchee & Chitlins (West Coast Ensemble, 1994), (Los Angeles Times feature article 5/26/1992
- China Doll (Northwest Asian American Theatre, 1996)
- Let the Big Dog Eat (short play) (Humana Festival, Actors Theater of Louisville, 1998)
- Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King (children's play) (Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1991)
- Prometheus (children's play) (Denver Center Theater for the Performing Arts, 1999)
- The Happy Prince (children's play)
- Boid & Oskar(children's play) (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park)
- Aftermath of a Chinese Banquet
- Bill of (W)Rights (Minneapolis' Mixed Blood Theater, 2004)
- Alice Downsized
- Dating & Mating in Modern Times (Theatre Emory, 2003)
- 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)
- Bu and Bun
- Inside the Red Envelope
- Quickdraw Grandma (2004)
- 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 ProjectSilk Road Theatre ProjectThe Silk Road Theatre Project is a production unit located in Downtown Chicago which presents plays written by individuals of Asian and Arab descent....
, part of "The DNA Trail," 2010), - The Magical Bird: A Fabulous Filipino Folktail (musical), (Honolulu Theatre for Youth, 2007); Honolulu Star-News Bulletin review 4/27/07
- 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)