YELLOW FACE CREATIVE TEAM

  • DAVID HENRY HWANG’s stage works includes the plays M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, Chinglish, Golden Child, The Dance and the Railroad, and FOB, as well as the Broadway musicals Aida, Flower Drum Song and Disney’s Tarzan. Hwang was a Spotlight Playwright at Signature Theatre, which produced a season of his plays, and M. Butterfly was revived on Broadway in 2017. His newest musical, Soft Power, written with composer Jeanine Tesori, received four Outer Critics Honors, a 2021 Grammy® Nomination, and was a Finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.

    Hwang has written fourteen opera libretti; Opera News called him America’s most-produced living opera librettist. Recent premieres include Circus Days and Nights (with Philip Glass, Malmö Opera, 2021), The Rift (with Huang Ruo, Washington National Opera, 2022), and M. Butterfly (with Huang, Santa Fe Opera, 2022). An American Soldier (with Huang Ruo) received its New York premiere in spring 2024 at the Perelman Performing Arts Center and Ainadamar (with Osvaldo Golijov) will be seen at the Metropolitan Opera in fall 2024. He also co-wrote the Gold Record Solo in 1994 with the late pop star Prince.

    From 2015-2019, Hwang was a Writer/Consulting Producer for the Golden Globe-winning television series The Affair. His screenplays include Possession, M. Butterfly, and Golden Gate. He is penning an Anna May Wong biopic for Working Title Films to star actress Gemma Chan and a musical feature film for Paramount Pictures. Hwang is also creating and show running a new TV series based on the NY Times Bestseller Billion Dollar Whale.

    Hwang is a Tony Award® winner and three-time nominee, a three-time Obie Award winner, a Grammy winner and two-time nominee, and a three-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Recent honors include his 2022 induction onto the Lucille Lortel Playwrights Sidewalk, an Honorary Doctorate (his seventh) from California State University in 2022, his 2021 election to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and his 2018 induction into the Theatre Hall of Fame. Hwang serves on the Council of the Dramatists Guild and is a Trustee of the American Theatre Wing, which he Chaired from 2016-2021.

Playwright

  • LEIGH SILVERMAN directed David Henry’s Hwang world-premiere productions of Yellow Face (CTG/ Public Theater), Chinglish (Goodman/Broadway), Kung Fu (Signature), Soft Power (Public Theater; Ahmanson Theater/ Curran Theater; Drama Desk nom), as well as the Signature Theater revival of Golden Child, and the Audible version of Yellow Face. She received Tony Award® nominations for her direction of the musicals Suffs and Violet. 

    Other Broadway credits include: Grand Horizons (2ST; Williamstown Theater Festival); The Lifespan of a Fact (Studio 54); and Well (Public Theater; ACT; Longacre). Recent Off-Broadway: Merry Me (NYTW); Suffs (Public Theater); The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Shed, Taper); Hurricane Diane (New York Theatre Workshop); Harry Clarke (West End, Berkeley Rep, Vineyard Theatre/Audible, Minetta Lane; Lortel nom); and Sweet Charity (New Group). Encores: Violet; The Wild Party; Really Rosie. She directed Audible’s award-winning scripted series, Dykes To Watch Out For.

Director

  • ARNULFO MALDONADO (Set Design). Broadway: Home, A Strange Loop (Tony nominee), Topdog/Underdog, Trouble in Mind. Off-Broadway: Atlantic, CSC, Lincoln Center, MCC, MTC, New Group, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Roundabout, Second Stage, Signature, Soho Rep. Regional: Alley Theatre, A.R.T., Berkeley Rep, CTG, Guthrie, Steppenwolf, Woolly Mammoth. Obie Sustained Excellence in Set Design, Princess Grace Faberge Theater Award, Lucille Lortel Award recipient and multiple nominee, Drama Desk nominee, Henry Hewes Design Award nominee. IG: @arnulfo.maldonado.design, arnulfomaldonado.com

Set Design

  • ANITA YAVICH (Costume Design). Broadway: Fool for Love, Venus in Fur, Chinglish and Anna in the Tropics. New York: Signature: Letters From Max, Thom Pain, Big Love, Kung Fu, Golden Child and Iphigenia 2.0; The Public: Soft Power, Oedipus El Rey; Encores!: The Life; Lynn Redgrave: The View UpStairs; CSC: Nathan the Wise, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Orlando, New Jerusalem, Texts for Nothing; MCC: Only Gold, The Legend of Georgia McBride, The Submission, Coraline, The Wooden Breeks. Opera: Opera Australia: Der Ring des Nibelungen. Awards: Obie, Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk. Puppet and mask designer for the film Megalopolis.

Costume Design

  • LAP CHI CHU (Lighting Design). Roundabout Theatre Company: Darling Grenadine, 72 Miles to Go. Broadway: Suffs, Uncle Vanya, Camelot (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway: The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre. Regional: Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Rep, Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, among others. Awards: Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design, Lucille Lortel Award, Ovation Award. www.lapchichu.com

Lighting Design

  • CAROLINE ENG (Sound Design and Original Music). Broadway debut! Recent: Merry Me (New York Theatre Workshop, co-design Kate Marvin), Coriolanus (Portland Center Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Hurricane Diane (People’s Light), Belfast Girls (Irish Repertory Theatre), Fences (Shakespeare & Company), The Overview Effect (Contemporary American Theater Festival), Little Women (Theatreworks, UCCS), What the Constitution Means to Me (WAM Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Group).

    KATE MARVIN (Sound Design and Original Music). Broadway debut! Recent: Jonah (Roundabout), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Lortel), Merry Me (NYTW), Wolf Play (Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Sound Design; MCC/Soho Rep/Ma-Yi), the best we could [a family tragedy] (MTC), Krymov’s Eugene Onegin (La MaMa), Fidelio (Heartbeat Opera), The Scarlet Letter (Two River), Bulrusher (McCarter/Berkeley Rep), Chimpanzee (HERE/Festival Mondial Théâtres de Marionnettes/Barbican), Vanessa in Bed (Audible). Film: The Memory Trade (Handmade Puppet Dreams). Associate artist, Target Margin Theater. MFA: Yale School of Drama. www.katemarvinsound.com

Sound Design & Original Music

  • YEE EUN NAM (Projections Design) is a visual artist and a theatre designer for live performances. Recent projects include X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X at Metropolitan Opera, A Transparent Musical (CTG), Once Upon a (korean) Time (Ma-Yi Theater Company) and Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Audible Theater). Nam has two nominations for Lucille Lortel Awards and is a winner of LADCC Theatrical Excellence for CGI/Video. Upcoming: Rutka: A New Musical (Cincinnati Playhouse), Hamlet (CTG).

Projection Design