Diana Miae Son is an American playwright, television producer, and writer.
13 Facts About Diana Son
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Diana Son was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Dover, Delaware, which Diana Son has described as a very small town with very few Asian Americans.
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Diana Son's parents met in Philadelphia, where her father was a student at the College of Pharmacy and her mother was an exchange nurse at Lankenau Medical Center.
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Diana Son credits seeing Joseph Papp's production of Hamlet at the Joseph Papp Public Theater and New York Shakespeare Festival on a 1983 high school senior class trip for her inspiration to be a playwright.
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In 2006, Diana Son wrote Satellites, a play Sandra Oh starred in that was directed by Michael Greif at The Public Theater.
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Diana Son has worked in television since 2000, starting out as a story editor for The West Wing.
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Diana Son was Playwright in Residence at the Taper during the same period.
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In March 2015, Diana Son began work on the ABC series American Crime.
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Diana Son will write and executive produce with Mikkel Bondesen and Kristen Campo.
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Diana Son has taught playwriting at Yale University and New York University.
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Diana Son is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Women in Theatre, and the Writers Guild of America, East.
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Diana Son has written much of her work at the non-profit urban writer's colony The Writers' Room in Greenwich Village.
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Diana Son has said her parents are very supportive of her writing career.