Tony winner David Henry Hwang has been named the recipient of The Dramatists Guild of America's 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award. The award will be presented to Hwang at the Guild鈥檚 annual awards ceremony April 28.
"Over the last four-and-a-half decades, David's ever-increasing body of work endures as one of the great contributions to the American theatre canon,鈥� says Samuel D. Hunter, co-chair of the awards committee, in a statement. 鈥淚 couldn't be more thrilled that we are celebrating David with the Guild's highest honor. His generosity, grace, humor, craft, and deep intelligence has profoundly influenced entire generations of theatre artists, myself included. I'm thrilled to see what lies ahead for him."
Hwang, most recently represented on Broadway with the revival of Yellow Face starring Daniel Dae Kim, is a Tony, Grammy, and three-time OBIE Award winner, as well as a three-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. His plays also include M. Butterfly, Chinglish, Golden Child, The Dance and the Railroad, and FOB, and he has worked on an array of musicals, including Aida, Flower Drum Song, Disney鈥檚 Tarzan, and Soft Power. Hwang is currently working on the new musical Particle Fever, based on the 2013 documentary about the largest scientific experiment ever undertaken.
Hwang was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2018. He has been a member of the Dramatists Guild since 1979 and also serves on the Council of the Guild. He is a Trustee of the American Theatre Wing, which he chaired from 2016-2021.
The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented by the Dramatists Guild Council in recognition of distinguished lifetime achievement in theatrical writing. Previous recipients have included Terrence McNally, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, Lanford Wilson, Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford, Jules Feiffer, Tina Howe, Pearl Cleage, Christopher Durang, Adrienne Kennedy, A.R. Gurney, John Guare, Emily Mann, George C. Wolfe, Micki Grant, Paula Vogel, Joseph Stein, Horton Foote, August Wilson, Stephen Sondheim, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Neil Simon, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Edward Albee, and Arthur Miller. Career Achievement Awards have also been presented to Marsha Norman and Stephen Schwartz.
鈥婽he Dramatists Guild鈥檚 other 2025 award recipients, including the Hull-Warriner, Loewe, Horton Foote, Lanford Wilson, Flora Roberts, and DLDF Defender, will be announced at a later date.
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