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Cary Wong

CARY WONG

  
Nationality:    USA
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Cary Wong received his MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University. He was a Van Lier Playwriting Fellow at Manhattan Theatre Club. His MTC commissioned play, "Mirrors Remembered" was produced at New York Stage and Film. His plays have also had readings at the Public Theater, Queens Theatre in the Park, New Dramatists, Mark Taper Forum, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, East West Players and the Group Theater in Seattle. Cary was part of the first Asian American Playwrights Group at the Public Theater. He is currently a member of the Queens Theatre in the Park's Playwriting Group. Cary is a member of the Dramatist Guild and has won the cartoon caption contest in the New Yorker.

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below is a list of Cary Wong's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Cello Plays, The         Dancer in the Dark         Eclipses         Family of Origin         High Fashion         Mirrors Remembered         Off-White Eclipse         Oriental Romeos         Private Property         Small Fire Burns in Arcadia, A         Day After My Suicide, The         Two Airports

Cello Plays, The

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the Cello Plays is a celebration of New York City and the diverse stories and backgrounds of its inhabitants. Vignettes of businessmen, college students, an immigrant family, aspiring artists and rich socialites are melded together in a slice of life collage connected together by the story of a young cellist prodigy's upcoming debut at Carnegie Hall as well as the city they all live in.
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Queens Theatre In the Park    2008

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Dancer in the Dark

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Mark Taper    1997

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Eclipses

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NY Shakespeare Festival    1991

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Family of Origin

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FAMILY OF ORIGIN centers around Noah, a young Asian American man, who finds out from his Chinese Father and Jewish mother that his real mother is a woman who used to dance in Chairman Mao's ballet company. Noah leaves on his own to New York to meet this woman who is dying. When he gets there, he discovers his mother's lifelong secret. ACT TWO focuses on Noah's mother and her attempts in her mind, to resolve things before she dies. She enters the world of the ballet she was most famous for, the RED DETACHMENT OF WOMEN.

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Discovering the Next Generation of Playwrights

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High Fashion

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1st Produced:
Seattle Group theatre    1992

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Mirrors Remembered

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the play takes place on a hot summer in New York City as we follow the lives of 6 Asian American women. they don't know each other at the beginning, but their paths cross during the course of the play. Included are a young artist, an Olympic hopeful, a deli owner, a photographer and two homeless women.

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1st Produced:
Coal Bin theater    1996

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New York Stage and Film

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Off-White Eclipse

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Two Act-Plays: OFF-WHITE revolves around 2 Asian-American friends trying to find love in the bar scene. ECLIPSE is about an unlikely friendship between two Asian artists, one born in the US the other an illegal immigrant.

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reading, New York Shakespeare Festival    1993

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Oriental Romeos

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Asian American males go out for a night that veers abruptly toward nightmare.
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NY Shakespeare Festival    1993

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Private Property

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co writer

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Small Fire Burns in Arcadia, A

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MCC Theater, New York    -

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Day After My Suicide, The

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reading at Queens Theatre (as part of their Immigrant Voices Play series) in Queens, NY    19 Oct 2013

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Two Airports

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Two couples, one leaving New York, and one returning to New York, meet unexpectedly together at the two major airports in Queens

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Queens Theatre in the Park    2005

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play Ten Min

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