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Lucy Wang

LUCY WANG  

 Nationality:    USA
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Lucy Wang Is an award-winning, published and produced writer, in spite of the odds, the pressure and the insanity. Wang began her illustrious career as a bond trader on Wall Street because her parents often threatened and screamed, "If we knew you were going to be a starving artist, we could have left you in China!" When Wang (nicknamed the "Hemingway of Memos") lost her job because the Mayor of New York lost his, Wang decided it was finally time to pursue her deepest passion. Everyone thought she was crazy to "waste" her University of Chicago MBA. Luckily, her biting first play JUNK BONDS won an award from the Kennedy Center and a new nickname, "the female David Mamet." She has been writing steadily ever since, surprising audiences with her diverse array of voices and life experiences and collecting as many awards, accolades and new nicknames along the way. Wang's other awards include a grant from the Berrilla Kerr Foundation, James Thurber Fellowship, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Honorary Fellow, Best New Play from the Katherine and Lee Chilcote Foundation, etc. Wang's plays have been produced all over and her voices span the gamut, from A to Z. In addition to plays, Wang has written screenplays, short stories, news articles, essays, and humorous creative nonfiction.
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         Big Red And Little Tiger         Bird's Nest Soup         Bullfighting         Chinese Girls Don't Swear         Cinderella's Bawl         Concerto For An Organ In B-Sharp         Down there         Down Under         Famished, The         Goldie And the Providential Prosecution         Good Mourning, America         How Now Brown Couch         In Security         Junk Bonds         Mah-Johng         Melting         My Superpower         Number One Son         Pretty For an Asian Girl         Scenes From A Chinese Restaurant         Sensuous Gourmet         Sichuan Peppercorn, The         Solika         Tao of Fruit, The         Top Bananas         Trayf

Big Red And Little Tiger

Big Red And Little Tiger
Drama with humor. A man confronts the CIA officer who arrested him using racial profiling.

Notes:
Finalist, Heideman Award, Actors theater of Louisville, 2001

1st Produced:
Diego Rivera Theater, San Francisco College    -

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1st Published:
JAC Publishing & Promotions,    1-933159-89-8

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Comedy/Drama Ten Min

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Bird's Nest Soup

Bird's Nest Soup
Far East Meets, Clashes and Frolics With Mid West. Chinese parents. American children. Should Mom do a TV cooking show or be Dad's subservient wife? there's going to be a fight, and the kids are in the middle. A fun and sad play about the rites of assimilation.

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1st Produced:
Mark Taper Forum Taper Too    -

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JAC Publishing & Promotions,    1-60513-119-9

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Genre:
Dramedy

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Bullfighting

Bullfighting
Annie, an insurance claims adjuster, summons Ernest Hemingway to the rescue.

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Ten Min

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Chinese Girls Don't Swear

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1st Produced:
Skylight Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.    28 Apr 2013

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Cinderella's Bawl

Cinderella's Bawl
Cinderella enlists Bobby Shaftoe, Old Mother Hubbard, Gretel and Farmer in the Dell for help in finding the perfect sperm.

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Ten Min

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Concerto For An Organ In B-Sharp

Concerto For An Organ In B-Sharp
Contestants compete for a liver transplant on the game show "Who Wants to Be An Organ Donor?" Biting.

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Finalist, Heideman Award, Actors theater of Louisville, 2002

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1st Published:
JAC Publishing & Promotions,    1-933159-88-X

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Genre:
Comedy Ten Min

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Male:  3            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Down there

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1st Produced:
Pandora Theatre, Vox Feminina 4, Houston, TX    11 May 2013

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Down Under

Synopsis:
Dexter and Hope have not seen their mother in 11 years when a mysterious letter arrives from Australia. DOWN UNDER weaves fairy tale surrealism with realism to ask what rights we have to shed our pasts and reinvent ourselves.

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Famished, The

Famished, The
How hunger draws and bonds two unlikely strangers to each other.

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in Scenes from a Chinese Restaurant, JAC Publishing   -

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Ten Minute Dramedy

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Goldie And the Providential Prosecution

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1st Produced:
Kol Neshama Summer Performing Arts Program.    -

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Good Mourning, America

Synopsis:
focuses on the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and explores how terror, tragedy and the misappropriation of tragedy stirs a melting pot, adding plenty of spice and a wicked spleash of dark comedy. Friendship, hope and American ingenuity on the rebound, with a biting vengeance.

Notes:
2005 Eugene O'Neill Conference Finalist

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  8 Actors, all playing multiple roles

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How Now Brown Couch

How Now Brown Couch
A battle of attraction

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in the Art of Bullfighting, JAC Publishing   -

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Ten minute play

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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In Security

In Security
John and Jane Doe meet at the airport terminal and reassure themselves they're safe, in spite of the changing security alerts. But, how safe are they?

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1st Published:
in the Art of Bullfighting, JAC Publishing   -

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Genre:
Ten Min

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Junk Bonds

Synopsis:
In a fast-paced game of liar's poker, a young Asian American woman fights her way into the clubby, high rolling world of Wall Street. Immense welath, glamorous careers and intoxicating power are at stake in pursuit of a fat slice of American pie.

Notes:
Kennedy Center Roger L. Stevens Award for New American Plays. Best New Play, Katherine & Lee Chilcote Foundation

1st Produced:
Home For Contemporary Theatre And Art    1995

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1st Published:
in "But Still Like Air, I'll Rise", Temple University Press
single copy by Original Works Publishing, LA,    -

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Genre:
Comedy/Drama Comedy

Parts:
Male:  5            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Mah-Johng

Synopsis:
About a mixed marriage.
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Melting

Synopsis:
When David loses a promotion yet again and this time to Sam, an Asian American woman, David and his Macbeth-like wife decide it's time to action and plan to sabotage Sam's career by fixing her up with the perfect man. After all, what ruins a woman faster than true love?

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1st Produced:
Cleveland Public theatre    1999

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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My Superpower

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in One on One: Playing with a Purpose, Monologues for Kids 7-15, Applause Books   -

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Number One Son

Synopsis:
Charlie, a widower, feels all alone in this world and constantly pressures his only son Lyndon to marry and procreate. Lyndon wants to do the please his father so he and his lover Kevin look into adopting a girl from China. Only problem, because he tested HIV positive, Lyndon never told Charlie he was gay, worried that Charlie has already suffered enough. Lyndon's mother and sister died in a plane crash.

Notes:
Finalist Arnold Weissberger Competition, Finalist Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference

1st Produced:
New Federal theatre    -

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Genre:
full length Play/Drama

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Male:  3            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Pretty For an Asian Girl

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1st Produced:
Lincoln Center Public Library, NY, NY, Piney Fork Press One-Act Festival    08 Jun 2013

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1st Published:
in One on One: Playing with a Purpose, Monologues for Kids 7-15, Applause Books   -

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Scenes From A Chinese Restaurant

Scenes From A Chinese Restaurant
A comedy showing us how two people's relationship to food affects their relationship to each other. Flexible casting. Can be cast with 2 men, or 2 women, or 1 man and 1 woman.

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in Scenes from a Chinese Restaurant, JAC Publishing   -

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Genre:
Ten-Minute Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sensuous Gourmet

Sensuous Gourmet
the Sensuous Gourmet explains if you know how to eat/dine, you know how to make love.

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1st Published:
in Scenes from a Chinese Restaurant, JAC Publishing   -

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Genre:
Ten- Minute Comedy

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Sichuan Peppercorn, The

Sichuan Peppercorn, The
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in Scenes from a Chinese Restaurant, JAC Publishing   -

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Genre:
Ten- Minute Comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Solika

Synopsis:
Adapted from the Moroccan Jewish Tale

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1st Produced:
Bais Miriam Performing Arts, Los Angeles    2000

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Tao of Fruit, The

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1st Produced:
ALAP/West Hollywood Gay & Lesbian Reading Festival, Celebration Theatre, Los Angeles, CA    2012

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Top Bananas

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1st Produced:
Skylight Theatre, Los Angeles, CA.    18 May 2013

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Trayf

Trayf
Caught in a Sino-Semitic triangle, Ruth discovers that what's good for you isn't always good for you.

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1st Produced:
Women's Playwright & Productions, NY, NY    -

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1st Published:
in the Art of Bullfighting, JAC Publishing   1-60513-011-7

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Genre:
10-15 min Play Ten Min

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Male:  2            Female:  1            Other:  -

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