Timothy Huang
Timothy Huang (Traditional Chinese: 黃明展, Pinyin: Hwang Mingtzan) is a Taiwanese American playwright, actor, composer and lyricist. He is the creator of the award-winning one-man musical, The View from Here, the song cycle LINES, and "American Morning", aka Costs of Living, the latter of which won the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater. He is the third Asian American to win the award since its creation and the first to win as a triple threat composer/lyricist/librettist.[1]
Biography
Huang was born in
Relevant works
Huang is a 2012
Huang is also the composer, lyricist and librettist of the full length musicals And the Earth Moved, which was featured in the inaugural New York Musical Theatre Festival alongside
Actor
Huang began acting and singing at an early age, making his debut at age 11 as a school child in a local production of Gian Carlo Menotti's Help, Help, the Globolinks! In New York, Huang originated roles in world premieres of Pan Asian Rep's Shanghai Lil's and Brian Yorkey's Making Tracks as well as a guest starring role on The Sopranos in the episode "Do Not Resuscitate".
References
- ^ TalkinBroadway.com, “Talkin’ Broadway 2005 Summer Festival Citations” Archived 2013-12-16 at the Wayback Machine, TalkinBroadway.com
- ^ Rob Lester, “Top Ten Cast Albums of 2006”, TalkinBroadway.com, January 4, 2007
- ^ Kilgannon, Corey. ‘’Night and Day’’. The New York Times, 2009.
- ^ Kilgannon, Corey. "Turning a Bloody Attack into a Musical" The New York Times, 2011.
- ^ Viagas, Robert. "Hadestown, a Modern-Day Twist on the Orpheus Story, Among Winners of Richard Rodgers Award" Playbill.com, 2016.
External links
- Official website
- Timothy Huang at IMDb
- Timothy Huang at IMDb