David Henry Hwang - Early Life

Early Life

He was born in Los Angeles, California to Henry Yuan Hwang, a banker, and Dorothy Hwang, a piano teacher. Hwang was the first of three children and their only son. He was educated at the Yale School of Drama and received a Bachelor's Degree in English from Stanford University. His first play was produced at the Okada House dormitory at Stanford after he briefly studied playwriting with Sam Shepard and María Irene Fornés.

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