Hwang's early plays concerned the role of the Chinese American and Asian American in the contemporary world. Playwright David Henry Hwang teaching a writing class in San Francisco's Fort Mason in 1979 Trilogy of Chinese America In summer 1978, he studied playwriting with Sam Shepard and attended Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, both of which led him to write his first plays such as FOB. His first play was produced at the Okada House dormitory (named Junipero House at the time) at Stanford University after he briefly studied playwriting with Sam Shepard and María Irene Fornés. He left once workshopping of new plays began, since he already had a play being produced in New York. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Stanford University in 1979 and attended the Yale School of Drama between 19, taking literature classes. The oldest of three children, he has two younger sisters. He was born in 1957 in Los Angeles, California, to Henry Yuan Hwang, the founder of Far East National Bank, and Dorothy Hwang, a piano teacher. Butterfly, Yellow Face, and Soft Power-have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays FOB, Golden Child, and Yellow Face. David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City.
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