Playwright, Yellow Face
David Henry Hwang’s stage work includes the plays M. Butterfly, Chinglish, Yellow Face, Golden Child, The Dance and the Railroad, and FOB, as well as the Broadway musicals Aida, Flower Drum Song, and Disney’s Tarzan. M. Butterfly was revived on Broadway in 2017. His newest musical, Soft Power, a collaboration with composer Jeanine Tesori, received four Outer Critics Honors, a 2020 Grammy nomination and was a Finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Called America’s most-produced living opera librettist by Opera News, Hwang has written thirteen libretti, including five with composer Philip Glass, An American Soldier (with Huang Ruo), and Ainadamar (with Osvaldo Golijov). His screenplays include M. Butterfly, and for television, he was a Writer/Consulting Producer for the Golden Globe-winning television series The Affair. He also co-wrote the Gold Record “Solo” with the late pop music icon Prince. David Henry Hwang is a Tony Award winner and three-time nominee, a three-time OBIE Award winner, a Grammy Award winner who has been twice nominated, and a three-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. He is a professor at Columbia University School of the Arts.