DAVID HENRY

David Henry Hwang’s stage works include the plays M. Butterfly, Yellow Face (2024 Tony Award-winning Broadway revival broadcast on PBS Great Performances), Chinglish, The Dance and the Railroad, and FOB, as well as the musicals Soft Power, Flower Drum Song and Disney’s international hits Aida and Tarzan. Called America’s most-produced living opera librettist by Opera News, he has written thirteen libretti.

Ainadamar with music by Osvaldo Golijov received its Metropolitan Opera premiere in Fall 2024 and The Monkey King with music by Huang Ruo will premiere in November 2025 at San Francisco Opera. Hwang was a Writer/Consulting Producer for the Golden Globe-winning television series The Affair and co-wrote the Gold Record “Solo” with the late pop legend Prince. He is a Tony Award winner and four-time nominee, a Grammy Award winner and two-time nominee, a three-time OBIE Award winner, and a three-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. A professor at Columbia University School of the Arts and former Chair of the American Theatre Wing, 

Hwang was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2018 and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dramatists Guild in 2025.