Elizabeth Wong (playwright)

Elizabeth Wong
Born (1958-06-06) June 6, 1958
Los Angeles, California
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]

Elizabeth Wong (born June 6, 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an award-winning[4] contemporary American playwright, television writer, librettist, theatrical director,[5][6] college professor, social essayist,[7] 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,[8] 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,[9] and she is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, USC School of Theater.[10] 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

References

  1. http://www.tannefoundation.org/award_elizabeth_wong.html
  2. http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/actf/actfcohen.html
  3. http://www.athe.org/files/pdf/08ConfAwards.pdf
  4. http://www.kennedy-center.org/education/actf/actfcohen.html
  5. http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/content/arts/1203/bestof03threater.html
  6. http://www.albany.edu/pac/07-08%20releases/letters%20to%20a%20student%20revolutionary.htm
  7. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/results.html?st=advanced&QryTxt=elizabeth+wong&type=current&sortby=RELEVANCE&datetype=0&frommonth=01&fromday=01&fromyear=1985&tomonth=03&today=04&toyear=2010&By=&Title=&at=ALL&Sect=ALL
  8. Elizabeth Wong at the Internet Movie Database
  9. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8pr7x78/
  10. http://www.usc.edu/dept/publications/cat99/theatre/index.html
  11. http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p825/Letters-to-a-Student-Revolutionary/product_info.html
  12. http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9D0CEFDB1638F935A25756C0A967958260
  13. http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p777/Kimchee-and-Chitlins/product_info.html
  14. http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-26/local/me-72_1_monterey-park
  15. http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p255/China-Doll-(The-Imagined-Life-of-an-American-Actress)/product_info.html
  16. http://www.actorstheatre.org/HUMANA%20FESTIVAL%20CDROM/bigdog.htm
  17. http://www.playscripts.com/play?playid=809
  18. http://www.playscripts.com/play?playid=811
  19. http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p610/The-Happy-Prince/product_info.html
  20. http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p167/Boid-&-Oskar/product_info.html
  21. http://www.playscripts.com/play?playid=467
  22. http://www.emory.edu/news/Releases/theater1054157959.html
  23. http://www.actorstheatre.org/HUMANA%20FESTIVAL%20CDROM/heaven.html
  24. http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p1229/%22Quick-Draw-Grandma%22/product_info.html (short play)
  25. http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2004/oct/30/ten_commandments_translation/
  26. http://www.srtp.org
  27. http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/onlinemagazine/2010march/khoury.html
  28. http://www.htyweb.org/playhistory.html
  29. http://archives.starbulletin.com/2007/04/27/features/story05.html

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