13 Facts About Naomi Iizuka

Naomi Iizuka was born on April 22,1965 and is a Japanese-born American playwright.

Naomi Iizuka's mother is an American Latina attorney and her father is a Japanese banker.

Naomi Iizuka grew up in Japan, Indonesia, the Netherlands and Washington, DC.

Naomi Iizuka attended the National Cathedral School, has her bachelor's degree in classical literature from Yale University in 1987 and spent one year at Yale Law School before eventually receiving her MFA in playwriting from University of California, San Diego in 1992.

Naomi Iizuka has taught playwriting at the University of Iowa and the University of Texas, Austin and was a Professor of Dramatic Arts and Director of the Playwriting Program at UC Santa Barbara until January 2008 when she took over as the head of MFA playwrighting at her alma mater, University of California, San Diego.

Naomi Iizuka was commissioned to write Good Kids, as the first playwright to participate in the Big Ten Theatre Consortium's New Play Initiative, which was established to commission, produce and publicize a series of new plays by female playwrights, each of which will contain several significant roles for college-aged women.

Naomi Iizuka says the university is a particularly good pathway to develop her commissioned work because of the resources and diversity they can offer: 'I believe universities are the great untapped resource in American theatre.

Naomi Iizuka was commissioned to write Good Kids by the Big Ten Theatre Consortium.

Naomi Iizuka says, 'I wanted to write a play that spoke to issues that were very important to university students right now.

Naomi Iizuka's Polaroid Stories is a modern adaptation of the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus.

Naomi Iizuka contemplates what is real and what is authentic in her 2001 play 36 Views.

Naomi Iizuka's well-demonstrated ideas is that human wishes persistently obscure the truth.

Naomi Iizuka has lived in Iowa and currently lives in Los Angeles, California.