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David Henry Hwang: "How Race and Ethnicity Influence (My) Art"; Part II

Presented by Zoellner Arts Center at Zoellner Arts Center

April 21, 2010

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Best known as the author of the Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning play M. Butterfly, which was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and Golden Child which received an Obie Award and three Tony nominations, including Best New Play, Hwang won a 2008 Obie and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his newest play Yellow Face.
“David Henry Hwang is a true original. A native of Los Angeles, born to immigrant parents, he has one foot on each side of the cultural divide. He knows America— its vernacular, its social landscape, its theatrical traditions. He knows the same about China. In his plays, he manages to mix both of these conflicting cultures until he arrives at a style that is wholly his own. Mr. Hwang's works have the verve of the well-made American stage comedies and yet, with little warning, they bubble over into the mystical rituals of Asian stagecraft. By at once bringing West and East into conflict and unity, this playwright has found the perfect way to dramatize both the pain and humor of the immigrant experience.” — Frank Rich, New York Times