Elizabeth Wong

Who is Elizabeth Wong?

Elizabeth Wong is an award-winning contemporary American playwright, television writer, librettist, theatrical director, college professor, social essayist, and a writer of plays for young audiences. Her critically acclaimed plays include China Doll is a fictional tale of the actress, Anna May Wong; and Letters to A Student Revolutionary, a story of two friends during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Wong has written for television on All American Girl, starring Margaret Cho, and is a visiting lecturer at the College of Creative Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, where her papers are archived, and she is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California, USC School of Theater. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California. She studied playwriting with Tina Howe and Mac Wellman.