Elizabeth Wong (playwright)

Elizabeth Wong (born June 6, 1958 in Los Angeles, California) is an award-winning contemporary American playwright, television writer, librettist, theatrical director, college professor, social essayist, 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, and is a visiting lecturer at the College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, where her papers are archived, and she is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, USC School of Theater. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts (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 and Mac Wellman.

• Letters to a Student Revolutionary (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, 1991), (New York Times Review 5/16/1991)
• Kimchee & Chitlins (West Coast Ensemble, 1994), (Los Angeles Times feature article 5/26/1992
• China Doll (Northwest Asian American Theatre, 1996)
• Let the Big Dog Eat (short play) (Humana Festival, Actors Theater of Louisville, 1998)
• Amazing Adventures of the Marvelous Monkey King (children's play) (Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1991)
• Prometheus (children's play) (Denver Center Theater for the Performing Arts, 1999)
• The Happy Prince (children's play)
• Boid & Oskar(children's play) (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park)
• Aftermath of a Chinese Banquet
• Bill of (W)Rights (Minneapolis' Mixed Blood Theater, 2004)
• Alice Downsized
• Dating & Mating in Modern Times (Theatre Emory, 2003)
• The Concubine Spy
• Badass of the RIP Eternal (short play) (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival, part of "Heaven and Hell on Earth: A Divine Comedy," 2002)
• Bu and Bun
• Inside the Red Envelope
• Quickdraw Grandma (2004)
• Punk Girls
• Reveries of an Amorous Woman
• Love Life of a Chinese Eunuch (2004)
• Ibong Adarna: Fabulous Filipino Folktale (children's play) (Mu Performing Arts, 2006)
• Finding Your Inner Zulu (short play) (Silk Road Theatre Project, part of "The DNA Trail," 2010),
• The Magical Bird: A Fabulous Filipino Folktail (musical), (Honolulu Theatre for Youth, 2007); Honolulu Star-News Bulletin review 4/27/07
• The Happy Prince (musical/opera), based on her adaptation (children's play) (From Page-to-Stage/Prelude New Play Festival, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 2003)

• http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p825/Letters-to-a-Student-Revolutionary/product_info.html
• http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9D0CEFDB1638F935A25756C0A967958260
• http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p777/Kimchee-and-Chitlins/product_info.html
• http://articles.latimes.com/1992-05-26/local/me-72_1_monterey-park
• http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p255/China-Doll-(The-Imagined-Life-of-an-American-Actress)/product_info.html
• http://www.actorstheatre.org/HUMANA%20FESTIVAL%20CDROM/bigdog.htm
• http://www.playscripts.com/play?playid=809
• http://www.playscripts.com/play?playid=811
• http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p610/The-Happy-Prince/product_info.html
• http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p167/Boid-&-Oskar/product_info.html
• http://www.playscripts.com/play?playid=467
• http://www.emory.edu/news/Releases/theater1054157959.html
• http://www.actorstheatre.org/HUMANA%20FESTIVAL%20CDROM/heaven.html
• http://www.dramaticpublishing.com/p1229/%22Quick-Draw-Grandma%22/product_info.html (short play)
• http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2004/oct/30/ten_commandments_translation/
• http://www.srtp.org
• http://www.ou.edu/worldlit/onlinemagazine/2010march/khoury.html
• http://www.htyweb.org/playhistory.html
• http://archives.starbulletin.com/2007/04/27/features/story05.html