Yellow Face (play)

Yellow Face
Written by	David Henry Hwang
Characters	DHH Marcus G. Dahlman Leah Anne Cho HYH Stuart Ostrow and others
Date premiered	December 10, 2007
Place premiered	Mark Taper Forum
Original language	English
Subject	Culture/Race
Genre	Drama
Setting	New York and California

Yellow Face is a semi-autobiographical play by David Henry Hwang, featuring the author himself as the protagonist, mounting his 1993 play Face Value. The play's themes include questions of race and of the interaction between media and politics.

Yellow Face premiered in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum in association with East West Players in May 2007.

The play opened Off-Broadway at the Joseph Papp Public Theater on December 10, 2007 and closed on January 13, 2008. Directed by Leigh Silverman, the cast featured Hoon Lee and Noah Bean as the leads. Hwang won his third Obie Award in Playwriting and he was a third-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

In 2013, the play was produced as a two-part YouTube video directed and adapted by Jeff Liu, starring Ryun Yu as DHH, Sab Shimono as HYH, and Christopher Gorham as Marcus G. Dahlman, with the rest of the cast played by Ki Hong Lee, Emily Kuroda, Linda Park, Justin James Hughes, Michael Krawic, and Tracy Winters.

In 2013, Yellow Face made its UK premiere at Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, London on 21 May, produced by Special Relationship Productions and directed by Alex Sims. This production transferred to the Royal National Theatre on 5 May 2014.

The play is currently published by Theatre Communications Group and in an acting edition by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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