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PLAYWRIGHTS
  • FRANK CHIN - Frank Chin is a UCSB graduate (1965) and is one of a handful of top literary figures in Asian American literary and cultural communities, and he is distinguished as being the first Asian American playwright produced in New York. He founded the Asian American Theater Workshop in San Francisco that evolved into the Asian American Theater Company (AATC).
  • JULIA CHO - Rising playwright and David Henry Hwang protege Julia Cho’s works that deals with her Korean background include BFE, The Architecture of Loss, and 99 Histories. She has developed her plays at New York Theatre Workshop, The Sundance Theatre Lab, The Mark Taper Forum, and South Coast Repertory. She has been a playwriting fellow at New York Theatre Workshop, a recipient of a New York Foundation for The Arts grant, and a playwright-in-residence at The Juilliard School.Her play 99 Histories was given a workshop production as part of The Cherry Lane Alternative’s Mentor Series, and was also a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
  • MINDY KALING - this Dartmouth graduate has educated Americans about Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. In addition to playing Kelly Kapour on NBC's "The Office," Kaling's behind-the-scenes credits include writing and producing some episodes of the hit show "Office." Additionally, she has been invited to be a guest writer on "Saturday Night Live" and is writing a sorority comedy for Fox Atomic.
  • CHERYLENE LEE - fourth-generation Chinese American child performer and author has written Arthur and Leila in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 1993, Legacy Codes, Mixed Messages and others.
  • DAVID HENRY HWANG - acclaim Chinese American artist with a string of award-winning plays. Read our US Asians interview by clicking HERE.
  • GENNY LIM - acclaimed Chinese American playwright, poet, and performance artist considered one of the luminaries in Asian American literature. Her best known work is the play Paper Angels that focuses on the immigrants of Angel Island. Lim honestly presents, opression, struggle, and the unforgettable past of Asian Americans in the United States.
  • DESMOND NAKANO - Writer/Director (whose father is Lane Nakano - who starred in the film "Go For Broke") of White Man's Burden, Black Moon Rising, Last Exit to Brooklyn and American Me.
  • DIANA SON - Prominent playwright (Stop Kiss, Satellites, Fishes, R.A.W., etc.) is a supervising producer and writer on the TV series "Law & Order: Criminal Intent for NBC's Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  • ELIZABETH WONG - award-winning Chinese American playwright and a television screenwriter specializing in Asian American issues
  • IRIS YAMASHITA - Iris Yamashita, a novice playwright on "Letters from Iwo Jima" had come to Haggis' attention through Creative Artists Agency's Cathy Tarr. Yamashita's screenplay, "Traveler in Tokyo," had taken first place at the Big Bear Lake Screenwriting Competition, where Tarr had been a judge, and she forwarded a package of Yamashita's scripts to Haggis, a CAA client. "I had absolutely no knowledge of the battle of Iwo Jima before my agent contacted me about this project," says Yamashita, a second-generation Japanese American with conversational knowledge of Japanese. I had also done a lot of research onJapan for my screenplay 'Traveler in Tokyo,' which is set on the eve of World War II. I definitely think that helped with getting some perspective on the Iwo Jima film." Yamashita received a master's degree in engineering from UC Berkeley and took an interest in writing while at UC San Diego.
  • CHAY YEW - associate artist and director at the Mark Taper's Asian Theater Workshop
 
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