id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5349 David Henry Hwang - Wikipedia .html text/html 5300 648 76 David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. It won an Obie Award.[6] Papp produced four more of Hwang's plays, including two in 1981: The Dance and the Railroad, which tells the story of a former Chinese opera star working as a coolie laborer in the 19th-century American West;[7] and Family Devotions,[8] a darkly comic take on the effects of Western religion on a Chinese-American family. Butterfly's Broadway producers, David Geffen, oversaw a film version of the play, which was directed by David Cronenberg.[14] Hwang also wrote an original script, Golden Gate, which was produced by American Playhouse.[15] Hwang wrote an early draft of a screenplay based upon A. David Henry Hwang at the Public Theater in New York City in 2008. "Tony Award-Winning Playwright David Henry Hwang to Succeed William Ivey Long as New Chair of the American Theatre Wing" (PDF). ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5349.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5349.txt