David Henry HwangDavid Henry Hwang is an acclaimed American playwright, screenwriter, and librettist, who wrote the Tony Award-winning play M. Butterfly (1988), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize He attended Stanford University (B.A., 1979), where his first pla, FOB won an Obie Award in 1980-81 for best new American play. In 1985 Hwang cowrote the screenplay for Blind Alleys, a made-for-television movie. Hwang's play, Golden Child (produced 1996, revised 1998) was nominated for a Tony Award. He cowrote the book for Aida (2000), a new book for the revival of the musical Flower Drum Song (2002); and the book for Tarzan (2006). His stage comedy Yellow Face was first performed in 2007. In 2011 Chinglish appeared on Broadway. His family lives in New York, NY. Read More Read Less