David Henry Hwang’s stage works include the plays M. Butterfly, Yellow Face (Broadway revival upcoming, Fall 2024), Chinglish, The Dance and the Railroad and FOB, as well as the musicals Aida, Soft Power, Flower Drum Song and Disney’s Tarzan. Called America’s most-produced living opera librettist, he has written thirteen libretti, including five with composer Philip Glass and three with Huang Ruo ( An American Soldier upcoming, Spring 2024, PAC NYC). Ainadamar, with music by Osvaldo Golijov, will receive its Metropolitan Opera premiere in Fall 2024. Hwang was a writer/consulting producer for the Golden Globe-winning television series The Affair and is currently creating and show running a new TV series, Billion Dollar Whale. A professor at Columbia University, Hwang is a Tony Award winner and three-time nominee, a Grammy Award winner and two-time nominee, a three-time OBIE Award winner, and a three-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.

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Daniel Dae Kim is an actor, director, producer, and social advocate widely known for his work in ABC’s Lost, CBS’s Hawaii Five-O, Netflix’s Stowaway, and Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon. This year, Kim will star as the villainous Fire Lord Ozai in the live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, for Netflix. Also in 2024, Daniel will head to South Korea to star in a new spy series that he and his company, 3AD, will produce for Amazon Studios. Currently, Kim can be seen on streaming platforms in BJ Novak’s FX series, The Premise, Nat Geo’s The Hot Zone: Anthrax, and Apple TV+’s Roar. As a producer, Kim and 3AD executive produce the series The Good Doctor, set to enter its seventh season on ABC, as well as 2023’s multi-award-winning documentary feature film Bad Axe. His theater credits include the recent, critically acclaimed production of Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles and Lincoln Center’s 2017 production of The King and I, as well as productions with London’s Royal Albert Hall, New York’s Public Theater, Theater for a New Audience, East West Players, Pan Asian Rep, and NAATCO. New York is also where Daniel received his training, earning his MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Kim’s advocacy for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is longstanding. His testimony in front of Congress helped lead to the passage of the “Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act,” and he currently serves on the White House’s Commission for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. He also serves on the Board of Gold House, with whom he partners, along with the Asian American Foundation, on the Sunrise Collective, the first-ever official AAPI centered House at the Sundance Film Festival.