Diana Son
DIANA SON is an award-winning playwright, a writer and producer for television, and a screenwriter. Her plays Stop Kiss and Satellites premiered at The Public Theater. Stop Kiss won the GLAAD Media Award for Best New York Production and was on the Top 10 Plays lists of the New York Times, New York Newsday, the New York Daily News, and other major publications. Son also won the Berilla Kerr Award for playwriting. Stop Kiss, published as a trade paperback by Overlook Press, has been produced at hundreds of theatres nationally and abroad. Her play BOY premiered at La Jolla Playhouse under the direction of her frequent collaborator Michael Grief, and Fishes was produced by New Georges in New York City. Her short play R.A.W.('Cause I'm a Woman) premiered at the Ohio Theatre in SoHo and has been anthologized in a number of collections. Among the many theatres that have produced Son's plays are the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Delaware Theatre Company, Brava Theater Center, Geva Theatre Center, and People's Light and Theatre Company. Son has been the recipient of an NEA/TCG Residency grant at the Mark Taper Forum and a Brooks Atkinson Fellowship at the Royal National Theatre in London. She has taught playwriting at Yale University and New York University and organized a playwriting workshop for caregivers of the disabled in Los Angeles, California. Son was co-executive producer of the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent and has also written a number of TV pilots for CBS, a television movie for Showtime, and feature films for Fine Line and Robert Greenwald Productions. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, East; the Dramatists Guild of America; and Women in Theatre; and is an alumnus of New Dramatists. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband. Bio as of January, 2010. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) The Play That Changed My Life - December, 2009 - Watch now. The Playwright - February, 2006 - Watch now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)