Elizabeth Wong (playwright)
Elizabeth Wong (born 1958 in South Gate / California) is an award-winning American playwright, whose works often have the situation of Chinese Americans on the subject.
Life and work
After a difficult childhood in Chinatown, Los Angeles employed Elizabeth Wong, whose ancestors had immigrated from China, early with the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong, who was for them as a model and an object of study. In 1995, she devoted her the spectacle of "China Doll".
Elizabeth Wong studied at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Inspired by the success of their former high school classmate -, the playwright David Henry Hwang, she went to New Haven ( Connecticut ) to the Yale School of Drama, where she studied with Leon Katz and write also began. She then continued her studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
In the 1980s, Wong worked as a production assistant (field producer) for the TV channel NXT TV Channel Two News and as a reporter for two newspapers (The San Diego Tribune, San Diego, California, The Hartford Courant, Hartford (Connecticut) ).
In 1991 at New York's Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, the world premiere of Elizabeth Wong's drama " Letters to a Student Revolutionary ", the second meeting of the women - acts during the Tiananmen Square massacre - a Chinese and an American Chinese. In addition, Wong worked in the early 1990s as a writer for Walt Disney Studios, as a dramaturge at the Actors Theatre of Louisville ( Louisville ( Kentucky) ), as a teacher at the David Henry Hwang Playwriting Institute ( Los Angeles ), and as a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
1994 Wong wrote the screenplay for the ABC production of " All-American Girl", a broadcast until 1995 television series, which was the first American sitcom with a Far Eastern Actress ( Margaret Cho ).
More recently, Elizabeth Wong has at Bowdoin College in Brunswick ( Maine), taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also a member of the Circle Repertory Theatre Playwright 's Project, the Women 's Project Lab, the Dramatists Guild of America and an advisory board member of Theatre Emory in Atlanta.
Prices
For her work as an author Elizabeth Wong has received numerous awards. " Letters to a Student Revolutionary " brought her in Colorado Springs a the Theatre Works Award. My play about Anna May Wong - "China Doll " (1995) - has been awarded the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award, the Petersen Emerging Playwright Award and the Jane Chambers Award.