Prince Gomolvilas was born on August 28,1972 and is a Thai American playwright.
18 Facts About Prince Gomolvilas
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Prince Gomolvilas has written many plays which have been produced in the United States and won several distinctive awards, including a PEN Center USA West Literary Award for Drama.
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Prince Gomolvilas was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Thai-born parents.
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Prince Gomolvilas's family moved to California when he was age seven and he spent most of his youth in Monrovia.
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Prince Gomolvilas attended San Francisco State University and received a BA in film and screenwriting and an MFA in creative writing and playwriting.
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In 1992, while living in San Francisco, Gomolvilas began writing plays.
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In collaboration with musician Brandon Patton, Prince Gomolvilas wrote Jukebox Stories, in which he performs in.
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Prince Gomolvilas developed at TheatreWorks in the San Francisco Bay Area the short plays Oskar: The Kid That Could, Oskar and the Big Bully Battle, and Oskar and the Last Straw.
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The Alley Theatre in Houston began touring Oskar and the Big Bully Battle in 2014, and has commissioned Prince Gomolvilas to write Oskar and the Curiously Colorful Clash, a play about diversity that will start touring in 2015.
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Prince Gomolvilas has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation.
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Prince Gomolvilas has received new-play commissions from the South Coast Repertory, the Alley Theatre, the Asian Stories in America Theatre, TheaterWorks, the Impact Theatre, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, the New Conservatory Theatre Center, the Playwrights Foundation, and the Center Theatre Group's Asian Theatre Workshop.
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Prince Gomolvilas wrote the screenplay for the short film Lunchtime which was an Official Selection of the Boston Asian American Independent Film Festival, the Asian American International Film Festival in New York, Outfest, the San Diego Asian Film Festival, the Sicilia Queer FilmFest in Italy, the Thessaloniki International LGBTQ Film Festival in Greece, and Tokyo Asian Queer Film Festival and other film festivals.
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Prince Gomolvilas has served on the jury of the South East European Film Festival.
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Prince Gomolvilas was selected for a prestigious and competitive screenwriting fellowship with The Chesterfield Writer's Film Project, a program sponsored by Paramount Pictures.
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Prince Gomolvilas has served as the associate director of the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, where he is an assistant professor in writing.
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Prince Gomolvilas has taught in the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute at East West Players.
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In 2013, Prince Gomolvilas presented a TEDx talk in "Mind the Gap" at Chapman University.
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Prince Gomolvilas, who has lived in Bangkok, Thailand, currently lives in Los Angeles.