Philip W. Chung Explained

Philip W. Chung
Occupation:Playwright, Screenwriter, Producer

Philip W. Chung is a Korean American writer/producer, co-founder of Los Angeles-based Lodestone Theatre Ensemble and was its co-artistic director.

Career

Chung has written and produced for theatre, film and television. He was the Co-founder/Artistic Director of the Asian American theatre company Lodestone Theatre Ensemble[1] and is the current creative director for director Justin Lin's company YOMYOMF.[2] [3] [4] His producing projects include the upcoming LGBTQ-themed horror film Moonshadow,[5] the Stage 13/HBO Max Asian food series Family Style,[6] Google's first 360 degree live-action film Help[7] directed by Justin Lin (also Writer), the U.S.-China co-production Hollywood Adventures starring Zhao Wei (Co-Producer and Co-Writer),[8] the Artbound/PBS documentary East West Players: A Home On Stage (Consulting Producer),[9] and the Karen Gillan-starring indie film Late Bloomers (Associate Producer).[10]

Chung has taught Asian American studies courses at UC Santa Cruz and playwriting at the L.A. Cultural Affairs Dept. and the Asian American Writers Workshop.

His play My Man Kono about the life of Charlie Chaplin's Japanese American valet Toraichi Kono premieres off-Broadway in NYC in 2025. His play Unbroken Blossoms, about the making of the 1919 D.W. Griffith-directed silent film Broken Blossoms told from the pov of the film's Chinese American consultants (James Leong and Moon Kwan), premieres at East West Players summer 2024. [11]

He is also writing features for Netflix and Buzzfeed Studios.

Plays

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Brayton . Julie . 2009-10-27 . Theatre Ensemble Devoted to Asian-American Themes Closes . 2024-06-28 . NBC Los Angeles . en-US.
  2. Web site: Lieberman . David . 2012-06-08 . YOMYOMF Network Leaps Into Top 10 In Deadline's YouTube Channels Ranking . 2023-03-14 . Deadline . en-US.
  3. News: Tsukayama . Hayley . 2012-06-15 . YouTube channel YOMYOMF launches, focus on Asian-American pop culture . en-US . Washington Post . 2023-03-14 . 0190-8286.
  4. Web site: 2012-06-22 . Asian American actors find a home on YouTube . 2023-03-14 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
  5. Web site: Ramos . Dino-Ray . 2018-11-12 . ‘Pose’s Silas Howard To Direct LGBTQ Horror ‘Moonshadow’ From Gunpowder & Sky And YOMYOMF . 2023-03-14 . Deadline . en-US.
  6. Web site: Ramos . Dino-Ray . 2019-05-01 . Justin Lin’s YOMYOMF And Stage 13 Serve Up ‘Family Style’ Food And Travel Series . 2023-03-14 . Deadline . en-US.
  7. Web site: Roettgers . Janko . 2015-05-27 . How Google and Justin Lin Are Reinventing Movies For Mobile (Exclusive) . 2023-03-14 . Variety . en-US.
  8. Web site: Cheung . Gloria . 2015-07-01 . Justin Lin’s ‘Hollywood Adventures’ Take Him To China . 2024-06-28 . Variety . en-US.
  9. Artbound East West Players: A Home on Stage Season 14 Episode 6 PBS . en . 2024-06-28 . www.pbs.org.
  10. Web site: O'Rourke . Ryan . 2024-05-21 . Karen Gillan Finds an Unlikely Friend in First 'Late Bloomers' Trailer [Exclusive] ]. 2024-06-28 . Collider . en.
  11. https://www.broadwayworld.com/los-angeles/article/Cast-Set-for-UNBROKEN-BLOSSOMS-at-East-West-Players-20240417
  12. Web site: Weekly . L. A. . 2006-04-26 . New Theater Reviews . 2023-03-14 . LA Weekly . en-US.
  13. Web site: 2006-04-21 . 'Golden Hour' for spiritual quests . 2023-03-14 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
  14. Web site: The Unsettling Price of Salvation . 2023-03-14 . international.ucla.edu . en.
  15. https://www.eastwestplayers.org/unbroken
  16. Web site: Wada . Karen . 2009-05-03 . Lodestone Theatre Ensemble is going out on its own terms . 2023-03-14 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
  17. Web site: 2009-11-21 . 10 Years Later, the Lodestone Takes a Final Bow with Grace . 2023-03-14 . LAist . en.
  18. Web site: Media . Character . 2009-11-03 . Will the real Grace Kim please stand up? . 2023-03-14 . Character Media . en-US.

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