David Henry Hwang is a playwright, screenwriter, television writer, and librettist whose stage works include the plays M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, and Chinglish, as well as the musicals Soft Power, Flower Drum Song, and Disney’s Broadway and international hits Aida and Tarzan. Yellow Face is currently making its Broadway debut, starring Daniel Dae Kim. His screenplays include David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly, starring Jeremy Irons, and he is currently penning an Anna May Wong biopic to star Gemma Chan. Hwang co-wrote the Gold Record “Solo” with the late pop music icon Prince and was a Writer/Consulting Producer for the Golden Globe-winning television series The Affair from 2015 to 2019. He is currently show running and creating a new television series, Billion Dollar Whale. Called America’s most-produced living opera librettist by Opera News, he has written thirteen operas, including five with composer Philip Glass. Ainadamar, with music by Osvaldo Golijov, will make its Metropolitan Opera debut in Fall 2024. Hwang is a Tony Award winner and three-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. He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2018 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.
