Elizabeth+Wong

=__**Elizabeth Wong**__=

//Elizabeth Wong//

Biography

 * Elizabeth Wong**, playwright, is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She directed play //**Dating and Mating in Modern Times**// at Theatre Emory in Atlanta, GA. //**The Happy Prince**//, her opera for young audiences with Grammy-winning composer Michael Silversher, was commissioned by the Kennedy Center and performed on the millennium stage at the 2003 Prelude Festival in Washington DC.

Her play //**Kimchee & Chitlins: (A Serious Comedy About Getting Along)**// premiered at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago and her award-winning //**Letters to a Student Revolutionary**// premiered Off-Broadway, New York City. Other plays, include: //**Badass of the RIP Eternal**//, //**Punk Girls**//, and //**China Doll**//. She has just been commissioned by Honolulu Theatre For Youth to write //**Ibong Adarna**//, a play with songs, and by Denver Center Theatre to write an adaptation of //**Goloshes of Fortune**// to commemorate the 200th birthday of Hans Christian Anderson.

List of Noticable Plays
//(If a play does not have a year, then the creation date is unknown)//

** Letters To A Student Revolutionary (1989) ** ** Kimchee & Chitlins (1990) ** ** China Doll - The Imagined Life of an American Actress **(1996** ) ** ** Let The Big Dog Eat ( **1998) ** Prometheus (1999) ** Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King (2001) ** Heaven and Hell (On Earth): A Divine Comedy ** (2001) Dating & Mating In Modern Times (2003) Bill of (W)Rights** (2004) ** ** Love Life Of A Chinese Eunuch (2004) ** ** Goloshes of Fortune ** (2005) ** Ibong Adarna: Fabulous Filipino Folktale ** (2006) Assume The Position Bad-Ass Of The Rip Eternal ** Boid & Oskar ** Ghashiram Kotwa The Happy Prince

COMMISSIONS:
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 * Silk Road Theatre Project
 * Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
 * Mixed Blood Theatre
 * Honolulu Theatre for Youth
 * Denver Center Theatre Company
 * Playwriting Center of Theatre Emory
 * Asian American Workshop/Mark Taper Forum/Dreamworks SKG
 * Omaha Magic Theatre (working with Joann Schmidman and Megan Terry)
 * Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
 * Pan Asian Repertory Theatre
 * Actors Theatre of Louisville
 * Jewish Women's Theatre Project
 * Dramatic Publishing Company

SPECIAL HONORS:

 * Listed in "Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th Century American Dramatists"
 * Oxford "Who's Who of American Women Writers."
 * Marquis "Who's Who of Women Writers."

TELEVISION CREDITS:

 * Staff Writer of the groundbreaking ABC television comedy series starring Margaret Cho, ALL AMERICAN GIRL.

AFFILIATIONS:

 * Playwrights Center, inaugural core member
 * PEN WEST
 * Dramatist Guild
 * Writers Guild West
 * Board Member of Theatre Emory
 * Board Member of ASSITEJ (an international organization promoting theatre for young and family audiences), [|www.usassitej@aol.com]

ARTIST RESIDENCIES/TEACHING/GUEST LECTURING:

 * Adjunct visiting professor, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
 * Adjunct visiting professor, Theatre Dept., University of Southern California.
 * Guest Lecturer -->
 * Artist residencies at Texas A & M, Bowdoin College, Catawba College, University of Southern Maine, Harvard/Radcliffe Universities, California State University at Los Angeles, University of Washington, Western Washington University.