Elizabeth Wong (playwright)

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Elizabeth Wong [1] is a contemporary American playwright, television writer, librettist, theatrical director, [2] [3] college professor, social essayist, [4] and a writer of plays for young audiences. Her critically acclaimed plays include China Doll (An Imagined Life of an American Actress) is a fictional tale of the actress, Anna May Wong; and Letters to A Student Revolutionary, a story of two friends during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Wong has written for television on All American Girl , starring Margaret Cho. She is a visiting lecturer at the College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, where her papers are archived, [5] an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, USC School of Theater, [6] and an associate professor at Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Dramatic Writing Program (1991) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California (1980). She studied playwriting with Tina Howe, Maria Irene Fornes and Mac Wellman.

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  5. ↑ "Guide to the Elizabeth Wong Papers CEMA 16". www.oac.cdlib.org.
  6. ↑ "USC School of Theatre". Archived from the original on 2008-11-29. Retrieved 2010-02-21.
  7. ↑ "Letters to a Student Revolutionary". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-02-28.
  8. ↑ "Theater Reviews". The New York Times. 18 August 2017.
  9. ↑ "Kimchee and Chitlins: A Serious Comedy About Getting Along". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-02-28.
  10. ↑ TORRES, VICKI (26 May 1992). "Prophetic Drama Evokes Some Jitters : Race relations: The play focuses on African-Americans and Korean-Americans, depicting boycotts, name-calling and beatings. It was written by a Monterey Park native before the recent unrest here" – via LA Times.
  11. ↑ "China Doll (The Imagined Life of an American Actress)". Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2010-02-28.
  12. ↑ "Actors Theatre". Archived from the original on 2010-09-17. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
  13. ↑ "Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King by Elizabeth Wong - Playscripts Inc". www.playscripts.com.
  14. ↑ "Prometheus by Elizabeth Wong - Playscripts Inc". www.playscripts.com.
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  16. ↑ "Boid & Oskar". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
  17. ↑ "Bill of (W)Rights by Janet Allard - Playscripts Inc". www.playscripts.com.
  18. ↑ "Emory University News Release - theater". www.emory.edu.
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  22. ↑ "Home - Silk Road Rising". www.srtp.org.
  23. ↑ "Khoury - March 2010". Archived from the original on 2010-02-24. Retrieved 2010-03-04.
  24. ↑ http://www.htyweb.org/playhistory.html%5B%5D
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