Elizabeth Wong (playwright)

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Elizabeth Wong is a contemporary American playwright, television writer, librettist, director, college professor, social essayist, and writer of plays for young audiences. Her notable works include China Doll (An Imagined Life of an American Actress), about actress Anna May Wong, and Letters to A Student Revolutionary, about two friends during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. She has written for television, including All American Girl. Wong teaches and works in higher education as a visiting lecturer at the College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (where her papers are archived); an adjunct professor at the USC School of Theater; and an associate professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She earned an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts (1991) and a BA in English and Broadcast Journalism from USC (1980). She studied playwriting with Tina Howe, Maria Irene Fornes, and Mac Wellman.