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	Drama Authors in Depth - David Henry Hwang - Meyer Literature
		Born in Los Angeles, David Henry Hwang is the son of immigrant Chinese American parents; his father worked as a banker, and his mother was a professor of piano.
		Hwang’s early plays are populated with Chinese Americans attempting to find the center of their own lives as they seesaw between the conventions, traditions, and values of East and West.
		Hwang takes this fascinating true story of espionage and astonishing sexual misidentification and transforms it into a complex treatment of social, political, racial, cultural, and sexual issues that has dazzled both audiences and readers with its remarkable eroticism, insights, and beauty.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /literature/bedlit/authors_depth/hwang.htm (916 words)

	David Henry Hwang Biography and Summary
		David Henry Hwang is one of the most successful and prolific American dramatists at the end of the twentieth century.
		In his monograph David Henry Hwang (1989) Douglas Street insists that Hwang is "clearly a writer of the American West," even though Hwang's West is far removed from that traditionally brought to mind by the writings of Bret Harte or David Belasco.
		David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is a contemporary American playwright who has risen to prominence as the preeminent Asian-American dramatist of this country.
	www.bookrags.com /David_Henry_Hwang (302 words)

	David Henry Hwang: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hwang's other works include: Family Devotions, EHandler: no quick summary.
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/david_henry_hwang.htm (867 words)

	LA Downtown News Online
		At a recent rehearsal of playwright David Henry Hwang's new work, Yellow Face, seven actors of various ages and cultural backgrounds were working through a protest scene.
		David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face directed by Leigh Silverman opened May 10 and runs through July 1 at the Mark Taper Forum.
		Hwang compounded the confusion by writing himself into the script - an idea, he said, that came after making several cameo appearances as himself in indie films.
	www.ladowntownnews.com /articles/2007/05/14/entertainment/entertainment02.txt (1019 words)

	David Henry Hwang to Stage Musical About Bruce Lee \| Asian American Daily \| GoldSea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hwang said the idea has been approved by Lee's family and he aims to stage the show in 2008, The South China Morning Post reported.
		Hwang is best known for his play ``M. Butterfly,'' about the affair between a Chinese transvestite and a French diplomat, which was remade into a Hollywood film starring John Lone and Jeremy Irons.
		Playwright David Henry Hwang arrives at the American Theatre Wing's spring gala in New York in April, 2006.
	goldsea.com /Asiagate/606/27hwang.html (355 words)

	Playscripts, Inc. Advisory Board - David Henry Hwang
		David Henry Hwang has been awarded numerous grants, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.
		Hwang sits on the boards of the Dramatists Guild, Young Playwrights Inc., and the Museum of Chinese in the Americas.
		David Henry Hwang graduated from Stanford University, attended the Yale School of Drama, and holds honorary degrees from Columbia College in Chicago and The American Conservatory Theatre.
	www.playscripts.com /advboard/member_hwang.php3 (579 words)

	Hwang, David
		Hwang's next two plays, The Dance and the Railroad and Family Devotions, also focus on Chinese-Americans: the first examines two nineteenth-century Chinese men working on the transcontinental railroad; the second looks at a well-established Chinese-American family of the twentieth century.
		Hwang's strategy was to exploit parallels between the espionage incident and the Giacomo Puccini opera Madama Butterfly, which tells of a Japanese woman who falls in love with a Western man, is spurned, and commits suicide.
		Hwang exercised his imagination in a different genre with another 1988 drama, a science fiction collaboration with composer Philip Glass and scene designer Jerome Sirlin entitled 1000 Airplanes on the Roof.
	www.tuvy.com /resource/books/authors/h/david_henry_hwang.htm (4288 words)

	Asia Pacific Arts: Being David Henry Hwang
		David Henry Hwang blurs the line of reality and fiction in his latest show, Yellow Face.
		DHH, played by Hoon Lee, is a passionate, intelligent, socially-conscious, and slightly spazzed-out playwright who is casting for his new show.
		DHH: He wrote a short film in which a character named David Henry Hwang is trying to push politically correct Asian porn -- so it empowers Asian men and is respectful of Asian women.
	www.asiaarts.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=71564 (1238 words)

	Playwright's career is family-focused: David Henry Hwang goes back Chicago Sun-Times - Find Articles
		The Los Angeles-born Hwang convinced his parents to let him spend the summer with his grandmother in the Philippines, where he compiled an oral history of his ancestors.
		Hwang was among the first to rebel when, in his early 20s, he rejected his fundamentalist Christian upbringing.
		Hwang comes from a family with "no history of theater." Hwang's pianist mother, Dorothy, was born in the Philippines after her family moved there from China.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20070225/ai_n18634208?lstpn=article_results&lstpc=search&lstpr=external&lstprs=other&lstwid=1&lstwn=search_results&lstwp=body_middle (880 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: David Henry Hwang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hwang first used art to address Asian American identity, class, and family legacy when he was ten.
		Young David's 90-page novel, based on her memories, would influence much of his future work and supply the storyline for his 1998 play, "Golden Child." Though Hwang's work wrestles with cultural identity, it would be reductive to pigeonhole it as Asian American literature.
		Hwang won an Obie Award in 1980 for his first play, "F.O.B." ("Fresh off the Boat"), and a Tony in 1988 for "M. Butterfly." Hwang is the first Asian American to win a Tony.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=874 (575 words)

	Amazon.com: Golden Child: Books: David Henry Hwang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hwang's ironic portrayal of the politics of "conversion" may be a revelation to those Western Christians who harbor romantic, idealistic notions about bringing the "light" to non-European peoples.
		David Henry Hwang is a masterful writer, and this is some of his best work.
		Hwang mentions in the introduction that "Golden Child" underwent several rewrites until the final draft was completed.
	www.amazon.com /Golden-Child-David-Henry-Hwang/dp/1559361581 (986 words)

	"Making His Muscles Work For Himself": An Interview with David Henry Hwang - Asian-American playwright Literary Review ...
		Raised in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb by a first generation, Chinese American fundamentalist Christian family, David Henry Hwang wrote and directed his first play, F.O.B. (slang for "fresh off the boat"), which explores the tensions within and between recent and assimilated Chinese immigrants.
		Hwang's most famous play, his Tony Award-winning M. Butterfly, exposes Western attitudes toward Asia by deconstructing one of the most powerful and seductive images of the Orient, Puccini's opera, Madame Butterfly.
		DHH: It's probably true that all my work in some sense confronts the issue of fluidity of identity and explores the idea that who we are is the result of circumstance, the result of things that are not necessarily inherent but instead come out of our interaction with our contacts.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2078/is_2_42/ai_54492914 (887 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Interview: Famous playwright David Henry Hwang talks about challenges of stage art
		Author of the famous play M. Butterfly David Henry Hwang, who is on a Hong Kong visit, said that keeping the career going has been most challenging to a playwright.
		The Tony Award-winning Broadway playwright Hwang gave a lecture entitled "The End of Chinese America" at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on June 22, in which he shared with the audience his evolving views of Chinese Americans and U.S.-China relationships.
		Hwang, the only Asian dramatist ever to have his works produced on Broadway, has his career spans more than 25 years.
	english.people.com.cn /200606/23/eng20060623_276678.html (461 words)

	HWANG'S 'BUTTERFLY' TAKES FLIGHT AGAIN
		So when Hwang looked at the French intelligence scandal and asked himself, "How could he not have known?," the answer he came up with was that the diplomat must have been caught up in some fantasy of the blushing Asian flower overwhelmed by her manly Occidental seducer.
		When "Miss Saigon" came to Broadway in 1991, Hwang was among those objecting to the casting of Jonathan Pryce as the Eurasian pimp the Engineer, arguing that there were plenty of actors of Asian descent who could use the work.
		In fact, Hwang has been doing such a wide variety of collaborative work that it's been quite some time since he wrote a play, not since "Golden Child," his Obie-winning and Tony-nominated 1998 explorations of Chinese family tensions between tradition and modernity in his great-grandparents' generation.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/20/PKGEEKEURM1.DTL (1064 words)

	David Henry Hwang at Hollywood.com
		Hwang adapted and executive produced the film version of "M. Butterfly" (1993), which was directed by David Cronenberg and starred Jeremy Irons and John Lone.
		Perhaps it was a tribute to the fantastic spectacle of the original, as well as stories of how the script was softened, that audiences were not as interested in the film version as they were in the play.
		Hwang continued writing for film, however, with the script of the failed "Golden Gate" (1994), an interracial love story set in 1950s San Francisco.
	www.hollywood.com /celebrity/David_Henry_Hwang/197806 (946 words)

	Experience Literature - Drama
		Hwang attended the famous Yale School of Drama during 1980 and 1981.
		Hwang continued to write and direct during the 1980s, moving from the relatively narrow early material to "wider concerns of race, gender, and culture." His 1988 Broadway hit, M.
		If Hwang can again fuse politics and humanity, he has the potential to become the first important dramatist of American public life since Arthur Miller, and maybe the best of them all." His recent work includes 1,000 Airplanes on the Roof: A Science Fiction Music Drama (1989), a collaboration with Philip Glass and Jerome Sirlin.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /experience_literature7e/drama/hwang.htm (319 words)

	Online NewsHour: Flower Drum Song -- November 18, 2002
		DAVID HENRY HWANG: Nobody nowadays thinks, "oh, if you eat Chinese food you're going to be hungry an hour later." So by bringing it back, the...
		For his part, David Henry Hwang says the very attempt to re- imagine "Flower Drum Song" for a new generation has a value all its own.
		DAVID HENRY HWANG: All the incarnations of "Flower Drum Song" essentially deal with the process of Americanization and what it means to come to this country and be part of this country from a Chinese-American perspective.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec02/flower-drum_11-18.html (1473 words)

	A Different Drum: David Henry Hwang gives the classic Rodgers & Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song a new lease on ...
		DHH: There are some lyrics that may be different from what you remember because they may come from different drafts of the songs.
		DHH: Before we opened, I was aware of a great amount of resistance from musical theater purists who felt that we were going to ruin this classic in order to be politically correct.
		DHH: I would say that's true, plot-wise, because the nightclub functions as such a central part of our new book and that was a Hammerstein/Fields invention.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/1771 (1714 words)

	David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face at the Mark Taper Forum - a Review
		The piece serves as one of Hwang’s most vulnerable works as it grapples with his professional and personal struggles as well as the social construct of race.
		Hwang serves as witness to Marcus’ sudden success as an “Asian American” actor and his increasing involvement as an activist.
		Hwang’s message against stereotyping is reflected within the cast as well.
	lastheplace.com /2007/05/26/david-henry-hwangs-yellow-face-at-the-mark-taper-forum-a-review (1117 words)

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		Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang will speak about his work as a playwright and screenwriter April 12 at Emory's English department and creative writing program Awards Night.
		In addition to Hwang's remarks, Emory students will be presented with the Artistine Mann Awards for poetry, fiction, drama and creative non-fiction; and the Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize.
		While Hwang does not deal exclusively with Asian themes, they are the basis for his most successful works.
	www.emory.edu /WELCOME/journcontents/archive/art/hwangart.html (196 words)

	David Henry Hwang Biography \| Dictionary of Literary Biography
		He challenges his audiences' notions of gender, race, and ethnicity and suggests the political implications of stereotypes and prejudice, integrating myth and history into his plays as a way to bridge differences and build understanding among audience members of all races.
		Hwang is the recipient of many honors, including the Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for M.
		Hwang's major themes and concerns are influenced by his biography.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/david-henry-hwang-dlb2 (200 words)

	F.O.B. by David Henry Hwang
		David Henry Hwang is a playwright, screenwriter, and librettist, best known as the author of M. Butterfly, which ran for two years on Broadway, won the 1988 Tony, Drama Desk, John Gassner, and Outer Critics Circle Awards, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
		Hwang's other plays include FOB (1981 OBIE Award), The Dance and the Railroad (1982 Drama Desk Nomination and Pulitzer finalist; CINE Golden Eagle Award), Family Devotions (1982 Drama Desk Nomination), The House of Sleeping Beauties (1983), The Sound of a Voice (1983), Bondage (1992), Face Value (1993), and Trying to Find Chinatown (1996).
		Hwang collaborated with choreographers Ruby Shang on Dances in Exile (1991) and Maureen Fleming on After Eros (1998), and co-wrote the song "Solo," released on the 1994 gold album Come by Prince.
	www.asianamericantheater.org /productions/fob/castandcrew.html (1738 words)

	Long Beach Opera \| 2008 Season
		In 2003, Glass premiered the opera The Sound of a Voice with David Henry Hwang, created the score to Errol Morris' Academy Award winning documentary The Fog of War, and released the CD Etudes for Piano Vol.
		The Voyage (1992, libretto by David Henry Hwang)
		David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957 in Los Angeles) is a contemporary American playwright.
	www.longbeachopera.org /index.php4?id=220 (2206 words)

	M. Butterfly - David Henry Hwang
		Gallimard tells Song, “You showed me your true self when all I loved was a lie.” Thus, Hwang flip-flops who the tragic character is, such that Gallimard, who thinks of himself as the macho Pinkerton, husband of the bereft Madama Butterfly, is the one abandoned and disgraced.
		Hwang’s Suzuki (played by Ako, a powerhouse with former ties to Japan’s famous Takarazuka Theatre Company) barks to Madame Butterfly, “Girl, he’s a loser.
		Kaput!” Yet Americans, who fail to understand that Butterfly does not represent realistic Japanese behavior, are suckers for the emotional aria “Un bel di” that details Butterfly’s agonizing wait for Pinkerton’s ship to return and for him to walk up the hill to her open arms.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/MButterfly.htm (900 words)

	David Henry Hwang (b. 1957)
		Butterfly draws attention to the issue of western stereotyping of Asia, a discussion of the representational construction of "Asianness" in America can provide a useful platform for an inquiry into Hwang's development as a playwright.
		Hwang attacks western stereotypes by refiguring the well-known Madama Butterfly theme.
		Using Brechtian devices that place the viewer in a position to critically evaluate the representations in his play, Hwang hopes to break the century-old butterfly myth of Asian submissiveness to western dominance.
	www.georgetown.edu /bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/hwang.html (311 words)

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