2010 Alumna
Cottage: Waterfall
BIO: Lucy Wang is an award-winning, published, and produced multi-genre writer. An accomplished playwright and performer, Wang’s body of work is largely dedicated to advancing social justice and giving voice to the less visible. Her plays have been performed all over, and many are available at
Original Works Publishing, Amazon, One Act Depot, Meriwether Publishing, Applause Books, and YouthPLAYS. Her awards include Crosstown Arts Residency 2022, Yefe Nof Residency 2022, Hedgebrook
2022, Look What She Did! Outstanding Female Artist in L.A. 2020, Annenberg Community Beach House Writer in Residence, Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, Best New Play with Political and
Social Significance Katherine & Lee Chilcote Foundation, Berrilla Kerr Foundation, and James Thurber Fellowship. After Wang sold a half-hour TV comedy pilot, feminist icon Gloria Steinem urged her to do stand-up, which was so exhilarating that Wang began performing developing one-woman shows to sold-out audiences. She was the first comedian to perform in the Green Room at Crosstown Arts in Memphis, TN this past April. In addition to plays, Wang has won awards for her healthcare journalism, teleplays, and her screenplays FILL OR KILL and YOUNG AMERICANS. Her poetry and prose have appeared in literary journals and trade magazines. She currently mentors privately and teaches at the
escript.ws and the Dramatists Guild Institute. So many of her students have won prizes under Wang’s mentorship that her students say Wang doesn’t teach writing, Wang teaches success! Wang is a co-founder of Honor Roll! and served on the executive committee. Her manuscripts are archived at the Huntington Library and CEMA collections at UC Santa Barbara.