黄哲伦（David Henry Hwang），著名美籍华裔剧作家，曾获托尼奖，并四次获得提名；曾获格莱美奖，并三次获得提名；三次获得奥比奖；并三次入围普利策戏剧奖决选。作为哥伦比亚大学艺术学院荣休教授，于2018年入选美国戏剧名人堂，并于2021年入选美国人文与科学院。2025年获得美国剧作家协会颁发的终身成就奖。
舞台作品包括戏剧《蝴蝶君》《黄面孔》《金童》《中式英语》以及《铁轨之舞》；音乐剧作品则包括《软实力》《花鼓歌》，以及迪士尼在百老汇和国际舞台上大获成功的《阿依达》和《泰山》。2024年复排的《黄面孔》由金大贤担任主演，在百老汇获得了评论界的高度赞誉，并斩获托尼奖，演出还在美国全国电视播出。
被《歌剧新闻》称为“美国当代作品上演率最高的在世歌剧编剧”。共创作了十三部歌剧，其中五部与作曲家菲利普·格拉斯合作，四部与作曲家黄若合作。由奥斯瓦尔多·戈利霍夫作曲的《泪之泉》于2024年秋在大都会歌剧院首演；由黄若作曲的《美猴王》则于2025年11月在旧金山歌剧院首演。
电影编剧作品包括大卫·柯南伯格执导的《蝴蝶君》，由杰瑞米·艾恩斯和尊龙主演。目前正在创作以黄柳霜传记为蓝本的电影剧本，该剧将由嘉玛·陈担任主演，以及一部为派拉蒙影业创作的音乐电影。与流行音乐传奇人物普林斯共同创作了金唱片《Solo》，并于2015年至2019年担任荣获金球奖的电视剧《情事》的编剧及顾问制片人。
David Henry Hwang, a renowned American-born Chinese playwright.He is a Tony Award winner and four-time nominee, a Grammy Award winner and three-time nominee, a three-time OBIE Award winner, and a three-time Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama. A professor emeritus at Columbia University School of the Arts, he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2018 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021. In 2025, Hwang received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Dramatists Guild, the national organization of dramatists in the United States.
David Henry Hwang’s stage works include the plays M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, Golden Child, Chinglish, and The Dance and the Railroad, as well as the musicals Soft Power, Flower Drum Song, and Disney’s Broadway & international hits Aida and Tarzan.The 2024 revival of Yellow Face, starring Daniel Dae Kim, enjoyed a critically-acclaimed Tony Award-winning run on Broadway, and was broadcast on national television in the United States.
Called America’s most-produced living opera librettist by Opera News, Hwang has written thirteen operas, including five with composer Philip Glass and four with Huang Ruo. Ainadamar, with music by Osvaldo Golijov, made its Metropolitan Opera debut in Fall 2024 and The Monkey King, with music by Huang Ruo, premiered at San Francisco Opera in November 2025.
Hwang’s screenplays include David Cronenberg’s M. Butterfly, starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone, and he is currently penning an Anna May Wong biopic to star Gemma Chan as well as a musical feature film for Paramount Pictures. 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.
