Playwright David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang’s stage works include the plays M. Butterfly, Yellow Face (revived on Broadway in 2024), Chinglish, The Dance and the Railroad, and FOB, as well as the musicals Aida, Soft Power, Flower Drum Song, and Disney’s Tarzan. Called America’s most produced living opera librettist, he has written thirteen libretti. Ainadamar with music by Osvaldo Golijov recently made its Metropolitan Opera premiere. Hwang was a Writer/Consulting Producer for the Golden Globe-winning television series The Affair and is currently creating and show running a new TV series, Billion Dollar Whale. A professor at Columbia University, he serves on the boards of the American Theatre Wing, Dramatists Guild, DGF, and the Entertainment Community Fund. 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.
director DANIEL ESLICK
on YELLOW FACE
This isn’t just a play about a single identity—it’s about how we perceive identity itself,” said Director, Daniel J. Eslick. “My team and I are excited to create a space where audiences can reflect on their own perceptions. ‘Asian American’ is such a complex and layered term, but Hwang offers us a vessel to begin unpacking what that really means. There are so many subplots to explore,” Eslick continued. “Failed allyship versus expected allyship, Asian-American intersectionality, political relations with China, and many more come to the forefront in Hwang’s dense text. It all brings me to the question, ‘What is Allyship.’”