Timothy Huang (Traditional Chinese: 黃明展, Pinyin: Hwang Mingtzan) is a Taiwanese American playwright, actor, composer and lyricist. He is the creator of the award-winning one-man musical, ''The View from Here'', the song cycle ''LINES'', and "American Morning", aka ''Costs of Living'', the latter of which won the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater. He is the third Asian American to win the award since its creation and the first to win as a triple threat composer/lyricist/librettis

Biography

Huang was born in

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and grew up in

Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington (Lenape: ''Paxahakink /'' ''Pakehakink)'' is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina ...

. He attended

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

where he received his BFA in Drama and his MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from the

Tisch School of the Arts The New York University Tisch School of the Arts (commonly referred to as Tisch) is the performing, cinematic and media arts school of New York University. Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the a ...

Relevant works

Huang is a 2012 Dramatist Guild Fellow and a member of the

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Huang is the composer lyricist of the one-man musical, ''The View from Here'', which received its inaugural production at the 2005

New York Musical Theatre Festival The New York Musical Festival (NYMF) was an annual three-week summer festival that operated from 2004 to 2019. It presented more than 30 new musicals a year in New York City's midtown theater district. More than half were chosen by leading theate ...

, and has since been produced regionally. Its premiere production garnered an ''Outstanding Actor Male'' citation for Shonn Wiley at NYMF and its subsequent cast album was listed in TalkinBroadway.com's Sound Advice column under ''Top Ten Cast Albums of 2006''. Huang is also the composer, lyricist and librettist of the full length musicals ''And the Earth Moved'', which was featured in the inaugural New York Musical Theatre Festival alongside

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and

title of show '' itle of show' is a one-act musical, with music and lyrics by Jeff Bowen and a book by Hunter Bell. The show chronicles its own creation as an entry in the New York Musical Theatre Festival, and follows the struggles of the author and compos ...

, ''Costs of Living'', and ''LINES: A Song Cycle''. Inspired by a true story, ''Costs of Living'' received national attention when it was featured in the 2011 ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, moderated by

Stephen Schwartz Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theatre lyricist and composer. In a career spanning over five decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as ''Godspell'' (1971), ''Pippin'' (1972), and ''Wicked'' (20 ...

. Subsequent to the workshop, ''Costs of Living'' won the Richard Rodgers Award,Viagas, Robert
"Hadestown, a Modern-Day Twist on the Orpheus Story, Among Winners of Richard Rodgers Award"
Playbill.com, 2016. and was also nominated by the Dramatist Guild for the ''Weston New Musical Award'', the ''American Harmony Prize'', and the

Fred Ebb Fred Ebb (April 8, 1928 – September 11, 2004) was an American musical theatre lyricist who had many successful collaborations with composer John Kander. The Kander and Ebb team frequently wrote for such performers as Liza Minnelli and Chita Riv ...

Award. It was also juried by Stephen Sondheim for the BMI Master Class Series.

Actor

Huang began acting and singing at an early age, making his debut at age 11 as a school child in a local production of Gian Carlo Menotti's '' Help, Help, the Globolinks!'' In New York, Huang originated roles in world premieres of Pan Asian Rep's ''Shanghai Lil's'' and

Brian Yorkey Brian Yorkey is an American playwright and lyricist. His works often explore dark and controversial subject matter such as mental illness, grief, the underbelly of suburbia, and ethics in both psychiatry and public education. Early life Yorkey w ...

's ''Making Tracks'' as well as a guest starring role on ''

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'' in the episode "

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References

External links

Official website
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