David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang was awarded the 1988 Tony ©, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, and John Gassner Awards for his Broadway debut, M. Butterfly, which has been produced in over four dozen countries. For his play Golden Child, he received a 1998 Tony © nomination and a 1997 OBIE Award. His new book for Rodgers & Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song earned him his third Tony © nomination in 2003. He wrote the books for the Broadway musicals Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida (co-writer), winner of four 2000 Tony © Awards, and Disney's Tarzan, with songs by Phil Collins. Other plays include FOB (1981 OBIE Award), The Dance and the Railroad (1982 Drama Desk Nomination; Pulitzer Finalist), Family Devotions (1982 Drama Desk Nomination), The Sound of a Voice, all produced Off-Broadway at the New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater, and Bondage (Actors Theatre of Louisville). His opera libretti include three works for composer Philip Glass, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (International Tour), The Voyage (New York’s Metropolitan Opera), and The Sound of a Voice (Boston's American Repertory Theatre) as well as Bright Sheng's The Silver River (New York’s Lincoln Center Festival), Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar (Santa Fe Opera, Lincoln Center; two 2007 Grammy Awards), and Unsuk Chin's Alice In Wonderland (Bavarian State Opera, Opernwelt's 2007 "World Premiere of the Year").  Hwang penned the feature films M. Butterfly (dir. David Cronenberg), Golden Gate (dir. John Madden), and Possession (co-writer, dir. Neil LaBute), and co-wrote the song "Solo," released on the album Come by composer/performer Prince. His new play, Yellow Face, premiered in 2007 at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum and New York's Public Theatre.  Mr. Hwang serves on the Council of the Dramatists Guild and was appointed by President Clinton to the President’s Committee for the Arts and the Humanities. In 2007, following Silk Road Theatre Project’s enormously successful Midwest premiere production of Hwang’s Golden Child, the company named Hwang its first-ever Artistic Ambassador, a role in which he spreads good will about the company within Asian American and national theatre circles.