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FOB (play)
''FOB'' is a 1980 Obie Award-winning play by American playwright David Henry Hwang. His first play, it depicts the contrasts and conflicts between established Asian Americans and "fresh off the boat" (FOB) newcomer immigrants. Production history The play premiered at the Stanford Asian American Theatre Project in 1979 under the direction of the author and was further developed at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in July 1979.Boles, William C. ''Understanding David Henry Hwang'', Chapter 2, Univ of South Carolina Press, 2013, It received its professional debut on June 8, 1980 Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater, closing on July 13, 1980. It was directed by Mako, with John Lone and Tzi Ma in the cast. According to William C. Boles (professor of English at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida), "for a first-time play premiering off-Broadway, ''FOB'' received fairly complimentary notices." Joseph Papp supported Hwang's work, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Henry Hwang
David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays '' FOB'', '' Golden Child'', and '' Yellow Face''. Three of his works—''M. Butterfly'', ''Yellow Face'', and ''Soft Power''—have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Early life 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. The oldest of three children, he has two younger sisters. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Stanford University in 1979 and attended the Yale School of Drama between 1980 and 1981, taking literature classes. He left once workshopping of new plays began, since he already had a play being produced in New York. His first play was produced at the Okada House dormitory (named Junipero House at the time) at Stanford University after he briefl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
