Timothy Huang (Traditional Chinese: 黃明展, Pinyin: Hwang Mingtzan) is a Taiwanese American playwright, actor, composer and lyricist. He is the creator of the award-winning one-man musical, ''The View from Here'', the song cycle ''LINES'', and "

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", aka ''Costs of Living'', the latter of which won the 2016 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater. He is the third Asian American to win the award since its creation and the first to win as a triple threat composer/lyricist/librettis

Biography

Huang was born in

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and grew up in

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. He attended

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where he received his BFA in Drama and his MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from the

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Relevant works

Huang is a 2012 Dramatist Guild Fellow and a member of the

BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop is a two-year educational program for people who wish to develop a musical and has been called "the premier incubator for Broadway". At the end of the second year, a small number of selected participants ...

Huang is the composer lyricist of the one-man musical, ''The View from Here'', which received its inaugural production at the 2005

New York Musical Theatre Festival The New York Musical Festival (NYMF) was an annual event held each summer from 2004 to 2019 in New York City's midtown theater district. It mounted more than 30 new musicals each year, more than half selected through an open-submission, double- ...

, and has since been produced regionally. Its premiere production garnered an ''Outstanding Actor Male'' citation for Shonn Wiley at NYMF and its subsequent cast album was listed in TalkinBroadway.com's Sound Advice column under ''Top Ten Cast Albums of 2006''. Huang is also the composer, lyricist and

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of the full length musicals ''And the Earth Moved'', which was featured in the inaugural New York Musical Theatre Festival alongside

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and

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, ''Costs of Living'', and ''LINES: A Song Cycle''. Inspired by a true story, ''Costs of Living'' received national attention when it was featured in the 2011

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Musical Theatre Workshop, moderated by

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. Subsequent to the workshop, ''Costs of Living'' won the Richard Rodgers Award,Viagas, Robert
"Hadestown, a Modern-Day Twist on the Orpheus Story, Among Winners of Richard Rodgers Award"
Playbill.com, 2016. and was also nominated by the Dramatist Guild for the ''Weston New Musical Award'', the ''American Harmony Prize'', and the

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Award. It was also juried by

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for the BMI Master Class Series.

Actor

Huang began acting and singing at an early age, making his debut at age 11 as a school child in a local production of

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's '' Help, Help, the Globolinks!'' In New York, Huang originated roles in world premieres of Pan Asian Rep's ''Shanghai Lil's'' and

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's ''Making Tracks'' as well as a guest starring role on ''

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'' in the episode "

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References

External links

Official website
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