Tony Award ® winner and three-time Pulitzer finalist David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) will make his Roundabout debut with the Broadway premiere of Yellow Face, his hilarious is-he-or-isn’t-he comedy of identity, show business, and (perhaps) autobiography in September. Starring Daniel Dae Kim (Lost) as “DHH” and directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman (Violet).
Inspired by real events, the playwright’s fictionalized doppelgänger protests yellowface casting in Miss Saigon, only to mistakenly cast a white actor as the Asian lead in his own play. This Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer finalist play is a laugh-out-loud farce about the complexities of race.
Tickets for Roundabout’s 2024-2025 Season will be available first as part of Roundabout’s subscription series next month by calling 212.719.1300, online or in person at the Todd Haimes Theatre (227 West 42nd Street) and the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street). Individual tickets will go on sale at a later date.
DANIEL DAE KIM (DHH) is an actor, director, producer, and social advocate widely known for his work in ABC’s “Lost,” CBS’s “Hawaii Five-O,” Netflix’s “Stowaway”, and Disney’s “Raya And The Last Dragon.” Though his career is highlighted by work in every medium, it’s the stage that has kept him busy of late.
He just returned from London’s West End, where he performed in My Favorite Things: The Rodgers and Hammerstein Anniversary Concert, with Audra McDonald, Patrick Wilson, Aaron Tveit and other theater luminaries. Earlier this fall, he also joined the cast of the critically acclaimed Peter Pan Goes Wrong for a limited engagement at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles. He also just completed an audio version of David Henry Hwang’s play Yellowface for Audible that his production company, 3AD, produced, and in which he starred. Daniel made his Broadway debut in 2017 as the King of Siam in Lincoln Center’s 2017 production of The King and I, having also played the role at the Royal Abert Hall in London in 2009. Over the course of his theater career, he has worked with New Yorks Public Theater, Theater For A New Audience, East West Players (where he performed in Golden Child written by David Henry Hwang), Pan Asian Rep, NAATCO, among others. New York is also where Daniel received his training, earning his MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
On screen, this February, Kim will star as the villainous Fire Lord Ozai in the live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, for Netflix. Also in 2024, Daniel will head to South Korea to star in a new spy series that he and his company will produce for Amazon Studios. Currently, Kim can be seen on streaming platforms in BJ Novak’s FX series, “The Premise,” Nat Geo’s “The Hot Zone: Anthrax,” and Apple TV+’s “Roar.” As a producer, Kim and 3AD executive produce the series “The Good Doctor,” currently shooting its seventh season on ABC, as well as 2023’s multi-award-winning documentary feature film, Bad Axe.
Kim’s advocacy for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is longstanding. His testimony in front of Congress helped lead to the passage of the “Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act,” and he currently serves on the White House Commission for Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. He also serves on the Board of Gold House, with whom he partners, along with the Asian American Foundation, on the Sunrise Collective, the first ever official AAPI centered House at the Sundance Film Festival.
DAVID HENRY HWANG’s stage works include the plays M. Butterfly, Chinglish, Yellow Face, Golden Child, The Dance and the Railroad, and FOB, as well as the musicals Aida, Soft Power, Flower Drum Song and Disney’s Tarzan. Called America’s most produced living opera librettist by Opera News, he has written thirteen libretti, including five with Philip Glass. His opera (with composer Huang Ruo) An American Soldier will receive its New York premiere this spring at the Perelman Performing Arts Center. His screenplays include M. Butterfly and he is penning an Anna May Wong biopic to star actress Gemma Chan. Hwang co-wrote the Gold Record “Solo” with the late pop music icon Prince and was a Writer/Consulting Producer for the Golden Globe-winning television series “The Affair” from 2015-2019. He is currently creating and showrunning a new TV series, “Billion Dollar Whale.” A professor at Columbia University and recent Chair of the American Theatre Wing, Hwang is a Tony Award winner and three-time nominee, a Grammy Award winner and two-time nominee, a three-time OBIE Award winner, and a three-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2018 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021; his star was unveiled on the Lucille Lortel Playwrights Sidewalk in 2022.
LEIGH SILVERMAN has directed over 60 world premiere new plays and musicals, received a Tony nomination for Violet(Roundabout) and received a 2011 Obie Award and 2019 Obie for Sustained Excellence. Her other projects with David Henry Hwang include: Chinglish (Goodman/Broadway), Soft Power(Public, Ahmanson/Curran Theatre; Drama Desk nom), Kung Fu (Signature Theater), Golden Child (Signature Theater), and the original production of Yellow Face (Taper/Public). Additional Broadway credits: Suffs (upcoming); Grand Horizons; The Lifespan of a Fact; Well. Recent Off-Broadway credits include: Merry Me (NYTW); Suffs (Public); The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Shed, Taper); Hurricane Diane (NYTW); Harry Clarke (Vineyard/Audible; Minetta Lane; BRT). Encores: Violet; The Wild Party; Really Rosie and Sutton Foster’s streaming concert, Bring Me to Light. Audible projects include Yellow Face (upcoming), Harry Clarke and Dyk
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