Current ACC Individual Fellowship grantee, Cheng-Han Wu, is a dramaturg, playwright, translator, and critic from Taiwan. He received his MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism from the School of Drama at Yale and teaches at National Taiwan University (NTU). He also organizes the Musical Theatre Writing Program at Taipei Performing Arts Center and serves as the Regional Managing Editor for The Theatre Times and the Programming Director for PLAYground, the first new work development center in Taiwan.
He recently sat down with ACC’s Marketing and Communications Manager, Caroline Lim, to speak about his ongoing Fellowship experience in New York.
Wu first gave a description of his ACC project: “My main project is to study and learn about new play development. New play development identifies the timeline and process of how a play gets fully produced and developed. More specifically, I am learning how playwrights develop their ideas, how long it takes them to create a play, and how theaters support playwrights and artists. In order to do this work, I have interviewed many artistic directors, dramaturgs, and playwrights from over 30 theaters and institutions to hear their experiences. So far, I have discovered that different theaters have specific ways and philosophies that dictate how they run their programs.”