David Henry Hwang’s (he/him) stage works include the plays M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, Golden Child, Chinglish, and The Dance and the Railroad, as well as the musicals Soft Power, Flower Drum Song, and Disney’s Broadway and international hits Aida and Tarzan. The Broadway revival of Yellow Face, starring Daniel Dae Kim, enjoyed a critically acclaimed limited run in Fall 2024, and will be broadcast in Spring 2025 on PBS’ Great Performances. Called America’s most-produced living opera librettist by Opera News, Hwang has written thirteen operas. Ainadamar, with music by Osvaldo Golijov, made its Metropolitan Opera debut in Fall 2024 and The Monkey King, with music by Huang Ruo, will premiere at San Francisco Opera in November 2025. Hwang’s screenplays include David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly, starring Jeremy Irons, and he is currently penning an Anna May Wong biopic to star Gemma Chan as well as a musical feature film for Paramount Pictures. Hwang co-wrote the Gold Record “Solo” with the late pop music icon Prince and was a Writer/Consulting Producer for the Golden Globe-winning television series The Affair from 2015-2019. He is creating a new television show, Billion Dollar Whale, for Westward/SK Global. 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. A professor at Columbia University School of the Arts, he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2018 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. Hwang will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dramatists Guild in April 2025.

Dan Wolf (he/him) is an artist who fuses rap, theater, history, and personal narrative to illuminate the complexities of our world. His performances integrate hip-hop aesthetics with traditional theater, creating multi-sensory experiences that challenge and engage audiences. For the past 14 years, he has expanded his global impact through Sound in the Silence, a remembrance project that transforms historical memory into live performance at memorial sites. His play Currency reimagines Shylock through the lens of modern immigrant and working-class struggles. In 2024, his hip-hop opera Beatbox: A Raparetta, co-written with GRAMMY® winner Tommy Soulati Shepherd, was produced by Ensemble Theatre Company in Houston. His latest work, The Bag, co-written with his hip-hop ensemble Felonious, is commissioned by Aurora Theatre Company and is a finalist for Berkeley Rep’s 2025 Ground Floor. From theaters and concert halls to schools and museums, Wolf’s work uses history as a catalyst for urgent storytelling. He brings communities together through the raw power of hip-hop and theater, ensuring that the past informs and inspires the present. He is the co-founder of Felonious and Bay Area Theatre Cypher, a board member of the Playwrights Foundation, an alumni of Playwrights Foundation’s Resident Playwright Program, and a member of both the Recording Academy and Actors Equity Association.

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