Elizabeth Wong (playwright)

Elizabeth Wong (born June 6, 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an award-winning[2] contemporary American playwright, television writer, librettist, theatrical director,[4][5] college professor, social essayist,[6] 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,[7] 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,[8] and she is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, USC School of Theater.[9] 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.

Elizabeth Wong
Born (1958-06-06) June 6, 1958
Los Angeles, California
OccupationPlaywright
Notable awardsTanne 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]
Website
elizabethwong.net

Selected Plays
  • Letters to a Student Revolutionary[10] (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, 1991), (New York Times Review 5/16/1991)[11]
  • Kimchee & Chitlins[12] (West Coast Ensemble, 1994), (Los Angeles Times feature article 5/26/1992 [13]
  • China Doll[14] (Northwest Asian American Theatre, 1996)
  • Let the Big Dog Eat (short play) (Humana Festival, Actors Theater of Louisville, 1998)[15]
  • Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King[16] (children's play) (Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1991)
  • Prometheus[17] (children's play) (Denver Center Theater for the Performing Arts, 1999)
  • The Happy Prince[18] (children's play)
  • Boid & Oskar[19] (children's play) (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park)
  • Aftermath of a Chinese Banquet
  • Bill of (W)Rights[20] (Minneapolis' Mixed Blood Theater, 2004)
  • Alice Downsized
  • Dating & Mating in Modern Times (Theatre Emory, 2003)[21]
  • 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)[22]
  • Bu and Bun
  • Inside the Red Envelope
  • Quickdraw Grandma (2004)[23][24]
  • 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 Project, part of "The DNA Trail," 2010),[25][26]
  • The Magical Bird: A Fabulous Filipino Folktail (musical), (Honolulu Theatre for Youth, 2007);[27] Honolulu Star-News Bulletin review 4/27/07 [28]
  • 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)
gollark: > “This stuff is funny!” giggles your niece, squishing her fingers in the goop. “It’s all warm, gluey, and bouncy! Someone should be turning out this stuff for kids to play with, or as sticky putty to stick posters to walls, or whatever. You’ve got, like, an infinite supply of it, so that’s good economics, right?”
gollark: > “No! ElGr cells are a scientific miracle!” cries biologist Jack Ponta, jiggling a beaker full of purplish goop as he waves his arms in exasperation. “These cells have been a breakthrough; not only in testing cures for cancer, but also in understanding how cancer develops and functions! All these years later, these cells keep chugging along, outliving all the others! Who knows, with these cells, we might even one day unlock a path to immortality! Are you going to let bureaucracy get in the way of SCIENCE?”
gollark: > “We thought my poor grandmother’s remains had been buried in accordance with her wishes,” growls Elizabeth’s direct descendant, Catherine Gratwick. “Can’t you let her rest in peace? This is her body that you’re messing with. You can’t just irradiate and poison her; you must ask me first! How would you like it if your family’s remains were exhumed and mutilated? You must never use cells from deceased people without the explicit pre-mortem consent of the patient or their relatives. As for granny - I insist that all remaining samples of her be buried, and that you financially compensate her family for the pain and grief you have caused!”
gollark: > Two generations ago, scientists took a biopsy of a tumor from a cancer patient named Elizabeth Gratwick, who died soon after. Without her knowledge or consent, these cells were preserved in the laboratory and proved to be exceptionally stable in replication. As stable cancer cell lines are highly useful for medical research, “ElGr cells” have been sent to and used by scientists all over the world. However, objections are now being raised by Elizabeth’s descendants.
gollark: Now I need to answer a question!

References
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  6. "Los Angeles Times: Archives". pqasb.pqarchiver.com.
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  13. TORRES, VICKI (26 May 1992). "Prophetic Drama Evokes Some Jitters : Race relations: The play focuses on African-Americans and Korean-Americans, depicting boycotts, name-calling and beatings. It was written by a Monterey Park native before the recent unrest here" – via LA Times.
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  17. "Prometheus by Elizabeth Wong - Playscripts Inc". www.playscripts.com.
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  19. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2019-12-07.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  20. "Bill of (W)Rights by Janet Allard - Playscripts Inc". www.playscripts.com.
  21. "Emory University News Release - theater". www.emory.edu.
  22. http://www.actorstheatre.org/HUMANA%20FESTIVAL%20CDROM/heaven.html%5B%5D
  23. http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p1229/%22Quick-Draw-Grandma%22/product_info.html Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine (short play)
  24. "Ten Commandments Translation and '10 X 10' plays". LJWorld.com.
  25. "Home - Silk Road Rising". www.srtp.org.
  26. http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/onlinemagazine/2010march/khoury.html
  27. http://www.htyweb.org/playhistory.html%5B%5D
  28. Zimmerman, Jovy (April 27, 2007). "Filipino folk tale flies high". archives.starbulletin.com.
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