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If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do an opera, I feel like part of my job is to support that composer, to try and create something that allows the composer to do his or her best work. In movies, it's usually the director.

~David Henry Hwang

Topics: Best Best Work Composer Create Director Else Everybody Everybody Else Feel Her His Job Like Movies Opera Part Play Production Something Support Try Vision Work Working I Feel I Feel Like

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With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes the producer. I think that's a reason why musicals are the hardest form.

~David Henry Hwang

Topics: Composer Director Form Hardest Kind Musical Musicals Producer Reason Sometimes Think Why You I Think

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I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a handicapped restroom that said 'Deformed Man's Toilet,' that kind of thing.

~David Henry Hwang

Topics: Badly Center Cultural Except Handicapped Kind Man Much New Perfect Pretty Really Said Shanghai Signs Thing Toilet Translated Visited

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I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

~David Henry Hwang

Topics: Basically Bilingual Chinese College Studied

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There was all this talk when Obama got elected about how we were living in a postracial world. But we're not. Until we get to the point where James Earl Jones can play, say, George Washington, race matters. You wouldn't put a white actor in blackface to play Othello. You shouldn't have a white actor in what amounts to yellowface to play Asian.

~David Henry Hwang

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With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have one actor playing five roles - people are willing to believe that. But they won't believe it if there's a black or an Asian kid who has white parents. What does that say about us?

~David Henry Hwang

Topics: About Actor Agree Asian Believe Black Disbelief Does Five Kid Many Ok Our Parents People Playing Race Roles Say Suspend Theatre Things Totally Us White Who Willing

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For a long time, it was hard for me to get my work done in Chicago. Silk Road gave me opportunities to do shows like 'Golden Child' - shows that nobody else seemed interested in. And they bring an artistic integrity to the work that matches anything you'll find at a bigger theatre.

~David Henry Hwang

Topics: Anything Artistic Bigger Bring Chicago Child Done Else Find Gave Get Golden Hard Integrity Interested Like Long Long Time Matches Me Nobody Nobody Else Opportunities Road Seemed Shows Silk Theatre Time Work You

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We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.

~David Henry Hwang

Topics: Career Deal Experience Failure Long Long Career Lucky Part You

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'Yellow Face' marks my summation of multiculturalism.

~David Henry Hwang

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My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.

~David Henry Hwang

Topics: About Across American Barriers Bilingual Broadway Businessman Capital China Communicate Cultural Deal Go Goes Hoping Language Make New Play Provincial Trying Which White Who Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: August 11th, 1957

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