DGI INSTRUCTOR

Lucy Wang

Their DGI Teaching History includes Writing to Win, Place, or Show.

Your voice and vision are gifts to the world, so my goal is tohelp you shine. As an AAPI artist who worked on Wall Street and for a New York City Mayor before writing professionally, I’ve always had to be more resourcefuland think more creativelyto overcome the odds.Ifyou have acompelling story burning inside of you,let’sfind waysto bring your visionto life.

Lucy Wang is an award-winning,published, and produced multi-genre storyteller. An accomplished playwright and performer, Wang’s body of work is largely dedicated to advancing social justice, inciting laughter, and giving voice to the less visible. Her plays have been performed all over, and many are available at Original Works Publishing, Amazon, One Act Depot, Meriwether Publishing, Applause Books, and YouthPLAYS. Her awards include Crosstown Arts Residency 2022, Yefe Nof Residency 2022, Hedgebrook 2022, Look What She Did! OutstandingFemale Artist in L.A. 2020, Annenberg Community Beach House Writer in Residence, Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, Best New Play with Political and Social Significance Katherine & Lee Chilcote Foundation, Berrilla Kerr Foundation, NEA Playwriting Initiative Fellowship 2019, and James Thurber Fellowship. Classes taught for DGI include Singular Sensation, Courting the Muse, Writing to Win, Place or Show, and Writing TYA.After Wang sold a half-hour TV comedy pilot, feministicon Gloria Steinem urged her to do stand-up,which was so exhilarating that Wangbegan performing one-woman shows to sold-out audiences.She has won top prizes and wide recognition for her comedy and writing. Wang was the first comicto perform in the Green Room at CrosstownArts in Memphis, TN, April2022. You can catch some comedy bits on YouTube.In addition to plays, Wang has won awards for her healthcare journalism, teleplays, and her screenplays. Her poetry and prose have appeared in literary journals and trade magazines. So many of her studentshave wonprizes under Wang’s mentorship that her students say Wang doesn’t teach writing, Wang teaches success! Wang is a co-founder of Honor Roll! and served on the executive committee. Her manuscripts are archived at the Huntington Library and CEMA collections at UC Santa Barbara.She has an MBA in Finance from Chicago Booth