Philip W. Chung
Encyclopedia
Philip W. Chung is a Korean American
playwright, co-founder of Los Angeles-based Lodestone Theatre Ensemble
and its current co-artistic director
.
series, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
. Also a journalist, his column about Asian Americans in the film industry, "Reel Stories," is featured in AsianWeek
. He produced and directed the short film, Harlequin in 2004. Currently he is directing Kono: Living in Silence, a documentary about Charlie Chaplin
's Japanese American personal secretary, Toraichi Kono as well as writing several screenplays including adaptations of the novels The Last Chinese Chef and The Samurai's Garden and original projects for director Justin Lin
. He is the Co-Founder/Artistic Director of the Asian American theatre company Lodestone Theatre Ensemble
.
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.
He blogs at http://youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com/
Korean American
Korean Americans are Americans of Korean descent, mostly from South Korea, with a small minority from North Korea...
playwright, co-founder of Los Angeles-based Lodestone Theatre Ensemble
Lodestone Theatre Ensemble
Lodestone Theatre Ensemble is a non-profit Asian American theatre organization in Los Angeles, founded in 1999. It is a membership-driven organization....
and its current co-artistic director
Artistic director
An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, that handles the organization's artistic direction. He or she is generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the organization is generally a non-profit organization...
.
Career
Chung has written for theatre, film and television, including the ABC-TVAmerican Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
series, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was a live-action American television series based on the Superman comic books...
. Also a journalist, his column about Asian Americans in the film industry, "Reel Stories," is featured in AsianWeek
AsianWeek
AsianWeek was a widely circulated publication of Asian American news, across all Asian ethnic groups, providing coverage of Asian-American issues such as the killing of Vincent Chin, Asian American college admissions, and quotas on Chinese students in competitive San Francisco examination schools...
. He produced and directed the short film, Harlequin in 2004. Currently he is directing Kono: Living in Silence, a documentary about Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
's Japanese American personal secretary, Toraichi Kono as well as writing several screenplays including adaptations of the novels The Last Chinese Chef and The Samurai's Garden and original projects for director Justin Lin
Justin Lin
Justin Lin is a Taiwanese American film director, best known for his work on Better Luck Tomorrow, The Fast and the Furious franchise and the television show, Community.-Life and career:...
. He is the Co-Founder/Artistic Director of the Asian American theatre company Lodestone Theatre Ensemble
Lodestone Theatre Ensemble
Lodestone Theatre Ensemble is a non-profit Asian American theatre organization in Los Angeles, founded in 1999. It is a membership-driven organization....
.
Chung has taught Asian American studies
Asian American Studies
Asian American Studies is an academic discipline which studies the experience of people of Asian ancestry in America. Closely related to other Ethnic Studies disciplines such as African American Studies, Latino/a Studies, and Native American Studies, Asian American Studies critically examines the...
courses at UC Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university; one of ten campuses in the University of California...
and playwriting at the L.A. Cultural Affairs Dept.
City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department is the official Los Angeles, California, USA arts council.The agency approves the design of structures built on or over City property and accepts works of art to be acquired by the City...
and the Asian American Writers Workshop.
He blogs at http://youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com/
Plays
- Home is Where the Han Is
- Laughter, Joy & Loneliness & Sex & Sex & Sex & Sex
- Dead of Night
- Aziatik Nation '04
- The Golden Hour
- One Nation, Under God
- My Man Kono
- Grace Kim & The Spiders From Mars
- Unbroken Blossoms (work-in-progress)
- "The Last of the Nisei Cougars" (work-in-progress)
- "Come Down in Time" (work-in-progress)