Biography of david henry

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David Henry Hwang

American playwright (born )

Not to be confused with David Huang.

David Henry Hwang (born August 11, ) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theaterprofessor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays FOB, Golden Child, and Yellow Face. He has one Tony Award (M. Butterfly) and two other nominations (Golden Child and Flower Drum Song). Three of his works (M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, and Soft Power) have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Early life

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He was born in in Los Angeles, California, to Henry Yuan Hwang, the founder of Far East National Bank,^[1] and Dorothy Hwang, a piano teacher. The oldest of three children, he has two younger sisters. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Stanford University in and attended the Yale School of Drama between and , taking literature classes.^[2] He left once workshopping of new plays began, since he already had a play being produced in New York. His first play was produced at the Okada House dormitory (named Junipero House at the time) at Stanford University after he briefly studied playwriting with Sam Shepard and María Irene Fornés.^[3] In summer , he studied playwriting wit

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HENRY, DAVID ('Myrddin Wyllt') (), Independent minister and folk poet

Name: David Henry
Pseudonym: Myrddin Wyllt
Date of birth:
Date of death:
Gender: Male
Occupation: Independent minister and folk poet
Area of activity: Poetry; Religion
Author: Huw Walters

David Henry was born at Llethri, Llangyndeyrn, Carmarthenshire, 27 January , the son of Thomas and Barbara Henry, members of Pen-y-graig Independent chapel. He was admitted to membership of that cause when very young. At 12 years of age he was apprenticed to his father as a tailor, and he worked for a time as an itinerant tailor in the south Wales valleys, settling in Maesteg, Glamorganshire, in where he began preaching in Soar chapel in October He attended the school kept by the Rev. Thomas Roberts, minister of Park Street chapel, Llanelli, in , but he returned to Maesteg in , where he continued to practice his craft as a tailor, and preached occasionally. He married Jane, the daughter of Rees Powell of Brychgoed, Defynnog, Brecknockshire, 27 December Three daughters and two sons were born of the marriage, one of whom was the Rev. Thomas Mathew Henry (), Independent minister of Beddgelert, Caernarfonshire

David Henry was ordained minister of the Independent cause at Cymer, Glyncorrwg, Glamorganshire,