Han Ong was born on 1968 and is an American playwright and novelist.
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17 Facts About Han Ong
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Han Ong is both a high-school dropout and one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant.
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Han Ong was born on February 5,1968, to ethnic Chinese parents in Manila, the Philippines.
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Han Ong's family immigrated to the United States in 1984, and they settled in Koreatown in Los Angeles.
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Han Ong attended Grant High School, a predominantly white school.
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Han Ong did not share a close relationship with his four siblings, and he struggled with a sense of alienation in his new homeland as well as with his experience with adolescence.
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Han Ong wrote his first play at age sixteen and was admitted to a young playwrights' lab at the Los Angeles Theater Center.
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Han Ong dropped out of high school at age eighteen because he did not feel that it was beneficial; however, he earned a GED later.
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Han Ong worked several odd jobs to support himself as he wrote, such as working in a trophy-manufacturing warehouse, until he was awarded a commission from the Mark Taper Forum and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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In 1993 Han Ong was a winner of the Joseph Kesselring Prize for best new American plays for "Swoony Planet".
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In 1994, Han Ong moved to New York where he received critical acclaim for his plays.
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Han Ong was praised by Robert Brustein, the artistic director of the American Repertory Theater and one of the most esteemed figures of the American stage.
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In 1997, at age twenty-nine, Han Ong was one of twenty-three winners of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowships; his grant was $200,000.
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Han Ong's works have been performed at venues such as the Highways Performance Space and Gallery and the Berkeley Repertory Theater in California; Joseph Papp Public Theater in New York; Portland Stage Company in Maine; Boston's American Repertory Theater; and at the Almeida Theater in London.
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Han Ong collaborated with fellow Filipino American writer Jessica Hagedorn in 1993 to write a performance piece entitled "Airport Music" for the Los Angeles Festival.
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Han Ong's plays can be divided into two groups: those exploring the issues related to immigration and those that examine the lives of non-stereotypical Asian Americans.
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