Philip W. Chung

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Philip W. Chung
OccupationPlaywright, Screenwriter, Producer

Philip W. Chung is a Korean American writer/producer, co-founder of Los Angeles-based Lodestone Theatre Ensemble and was its co-artistic director.

Career

Chung has taught Asian American studies courses at UC Santa Cruz and playwriting at the L.A. Cultural Affairs Dept. and the Asian American Writers Workshop. His play My Man Kono about the life of Charlie Chaplin's Japanese American valet Toraichi Kono premieres off-Broadway in NYC in 2025. His play Unbroken Blossoms, about the making of the 1919 D.W. Griffith-directed silent film Broken Blossoms told from the pov of the film's Chinese American consultants (James B. Leong and Moon Kwan), premieres at East West Players summer 2024. [1] He is also writing features for Netflix and Buzzfeed Studios.

Plays

  • Home is Where the Han Is
  • Laughter, Joy & Loneliness & Sex & Sex & Sex & Sex
  • Dead of Night
  • Aziatik Nation '04
  • The Golden Hour [2][3]
  • One Nation, Under God [4]
  • My Man Kono
  • Unbroken Blossoms [5]
  • Grace Kim & The Spiders From Mars [6][7][8]

References

  1. ↑ https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/Cast-Set-for-UNBROKEN-BLOSSOMS-at-East-West-Players-20240417 [bare URL]
  2. ↑ Weekly, L. A. (2006-04-26). "New Theater Reviews". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  3. ↑ "'Golden Hour' for spiritual quests". Los Angeles Times. 2006-04-21. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  4. ↑ "The Unsettling Price of Salvation". international.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  5. ↑ https://www.eastwestplayers.org/unbroken [bare URL]
  6. ↑ Wada, Karen (2009-05-03). "Lodestone Theatre Ensemble is going out on its own terms". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  7. ↑ "10 Years Later, the Lodestone Takes a Final Bow with Grace". LAist. 2009-11-21. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  8. ↑ Media, Character (2009-11-03). "Will the real Grace Kim please stand up?". Character Media. Retrieved 2023-03-14.

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