This author's librettos include one for Philip Glass's 1000 Airplanes on the Roof.
This author's librettos include one for Philip Glass's 1000 Airplanes on the Roof. His last play, a Pulitzer finalist, centers on a character named Lone who trains a friend in opera amidst a California strike in 1867; it was titled The Dance and the Railroad. In another work, he wrote about Mark and Terri, who portray different races at an S&M parlor in Los Angeles. He earned an Obie Award in 1981 for a work about the encounter between Dale, an A.B.C., his cousin Grace, and Steve, the title character of his F.O.B.  FTP, name this first Asian-American writer to win a Tony Award, who is best known for the play M. Butterfly.
This author's librettos include one for Philip Glass's 1000 Airplanes on the Roof.
David Henry Hwang