Artists' Fellowship - 1985
Playwriting/Screenwriting
Artist Statement:
I was able to extensively re-write my comedy "Rich Relations". It opened at Second Stage in NYC in April 1986.
More about the Artist:
David Henry Hwang’s first play F.O.B (Fresh Off the Boat) was produced at the National Playwrights Conference in 1979. The next year, it was produced at the New York Shakespeare Festival's Public Theater, winning an Obie award for best new play of the season. His breakthrough play, M. Butterfly, politically charged exploration of sexuality and orientalist racism received a Tony Award in 1988 and a Pulitzer Prize in 1989.
In addition to his NYFA Fellowship, Hwang is the recipient of awards from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has also written screenplays for a number of films including M. Butterfly (1993), Golden Gate (1994), and Possession (2002). He penned the book for the 2006 Disney Broadway musical Tarzan (music and lyrics by Phil Collins).
William A. Henry III of Time magazine called Hwang "the first U.S. playwright to become an international phenomenon in a generation.”
Hwang's most recent play Yellowface premiered at the Public Theater, NY in 2007.
To purchase works by or about David H. Hwang click below:
M Butterfly
Trying to Find Chinatown
Golden Child
Bondage.
The Dance and the Railroad and Family Devotions
The Sound of a Voice
Broken Promises: Four Plays
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