Editing David Henry Hwang (section)

==Early life==
He was born in 1957 in [[Los Angeles]], California, to Henry Yuan Hwang, the founder of [[Far East National Bank]],<ref>{{Cite news|last=Martin|first=Douglas|date=2005-10-13|title=Henry Y. Hwang Dies at 77; Founded Asian-American Bank|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/13/business/henry-y-hwang-dies-at-77-founded-asianamerican-bank.html|access-date=13 February 2024|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and Dorothy Hwang, a piano teacher. The oldest of three children, he has two younger sisters. He received a [[bachelor's degree]] in English from [[Stanford University]] in 1979 and attended the [[Yale School of Drama]] between 1980 and 1981, taking literature classes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://capeusa.org/david-henry-hwang/|title=David Henry Hwang|publisher=[[Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment]]|access-date=February 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190227182048/https://capeusa.org/david-henry-hwang/|archive-date=February 27, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> He left once workshopping of new plays began, since he already had a play being produced in New York. His first play was produced at the Okada House dormitory (named Junipero House at the time) at [[Stanford University]] after he briefly studied playwriting with [[Sam Shepard]] and [[María Irene Fornés]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.americantheatre.org/2018/05/03/david-henry-hwang-backward-and-forward/|first=Diep |last=Tran|title=David Henry Hwang: Backward and Forward|publisher=American Theatre|date=May 3, 2018|access-date=February 27, 2019}}</ref> In summer 1978, he studied playwriting with [[Sam Shepard]] and attended Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, both of which led him to write his first plays such as ''FOB''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Prof. David Henry Hwang Teaches Playwriting and Revives 'M. Butterfly' on Broadway|publisher=Columbia University|date=October 3, 2017|url=https://news.columbia.edu/content/Professor-David-Henry-Hwang-Teaches-Playwriting-and-Revives-a-Play-on-Broadway|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019141027/https://news.columbia.edu/content/Professor-David-Henry-Hwang-Teaches-Playwriting-and-Revives-a-Play-on-Broadway|archive-date=October 19, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref>