2010 Alumna
Cottage: Waterfall
BIO: Lucy Wang is an award-winning, published and produced writer. Wang began her illustrious career as a bond trader on Wall Street because her parents often threatened and screamed, "If we knew you were going to be a starving artist, we could have left you in China!" When Wang (nicknamed the "Hemingway of Memos") lost her job because the Mayor of New York lost his, Wang decided it was finally time to pursue her deepest passion.Everyone thought she was crazy to "waste" her University of Chicago MBA. Luckily, her biting first play JUNK BONDS won an award from the Kennedy Center, a two-page profile in the New York Times, and a new nickname, "the female David Mamet." She has been writing steadily ever since, surprising audiences with her diverse array of voices and life experiences and collecting as many awards, accolades and new nicknames as she an along the way.Wang's other awards include a grant from the Berrilla Kerr Foundation, James Thurber Fellowship, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Honorary Fellow, Best New Play With Political and Socioeconomic Significance from the Katherine and Lee Chilcote Foundation, James Irvine Foundation Honorary Fellowship, NATPE Diversity Fellow, Best New TV Writer sponsored by CAPE and FOX, Annenberg Beach House Writer in Residence 2012, Wellstone Center in the Redwoods.In addition to plays, Wang sold a TV pilot to Disney, written screenplays, a young adult novel, short stories, news articles, essays, and humorous creative nonfiction. Wang has also performed standup comedy and her one-woman show CHINESE GIRLS DON'T SWEAR to full houses in NY, L.A., and her hometown of Akron, Ohio. Here is a comedy demo: https://youtu.be/IbcqZCYZbik.