Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
An Evening with David Henry Hwang
A Visions and Voices Signature Event. Followed by a book signing and reception.
When:
November 8, 2012 7:00pm to 12:00am
Where
Join us for an evening with one of the country’s most accomplished and preeminent playwrights. Throughout his career, David Henry Hwang has explored the complexities of forging Eastern and Western cultures in contemporary America. Over the past 30 years, his extraordinary body of work has been marked by a deep desire to reaffirm the common humanity in all of us.
He is best known as the author of M. Butterfly, which won Tony, Drama Desk, John Gassner and Outer Critics Circle awards, and was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The play enjoyed a one-year run on London’s West End and has been produced in over four dozen countries to date. His play Golden Child, a book that President Nikias has identified as essential reading for all USC students, received an OBIE Award before moving to Broadway, where it received three Tony nominations, including Best New Play. His play Yellow Face won an OBIE Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent play, Chinglish, a comedy about an American businessman in China, was named Best New American Play of 2011 by TIME magazine.
Hwang’s Broadway musicals include his new book for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song, which earned him his third Tony nomination, for Best Book of a Musical. He cowrote the book for Disney’s international hit Aida, with music and lyrics by Elton John and Tim Rice, and was the book writer of Disney’s Tarzan, with songs by Phil Collins. He has written four works with composer Philip Glass, and, according to Opera News, Hwang is America’s most-produced living opera librettist. He penned the screenplays for M. Butterfly, a 1993 Warner Brothers release starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone, directed by David Cronenberg; Golden Gate, starring Matt Dillon and Joan Chen, directed by John Madden; The Lost Empire, a four-hour NBC television miniseries; and Possession (cowriter), starring Gwyneth Paltrow, directed by Neil LaBute.
David Henry Hwang: Twitter, Wikipedia
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here.
General Public: To RSVP, click here.
Book signing and reception to follow.
The University Club at King Stoops Hall will offer a prix-fixe dinner prior to this event. For information and to make reservations, click here.
Cost:
Free, RSVP required.
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