Occupation Playwright Nationality USA | Name Elizabeth Wong Role Playwright | |
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Born June 6, 1958 (age 66) Los Angeles, California ( 1958-06-06 ) Awards Tanne Foundation Award (2007) for artistic achievement; 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; 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 Books Kimchee and Chitlins: A Serious Comedy about Getting Along Education University of Southern California, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts | ||
Elizabeth wong
Elizabeth Wong (born June 6, 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an award-winning contemporary American playwright, television writer, librettist, theatrical director, college professor, social essayist, 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, 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, and she is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, USC School of Theater. 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.