Hwang, David Henry

David Henry Hwang

(Los Angeles, California)

2025–26 Season: Librettist, The Monkey King

San Francisco Opera Highlights: Dream of the Red Chamber

Recent and Upcoming: Yellow Face (Broadway, Great Performances, audioplay); M.Butterfly (Broadway); Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar (Metropolitan Opera); Huang Ruo's An American Soldier (New York's Perelman Performing Arts Center); May Wong biopic (Working Title Films); Billion Dollar Whale (SK Global)

Writer of 14 opera libretti

Writer/Consulting Producer for The Affair (tv series)

Tony Award: Best Play for M. Butterfly (1988)

Grammy Award: Best Opera Recording and Best Classical Contemporary Composition for Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar (2006)