bio / contact

Sung Rno's plays include CLEVELAND RAINING, GRAVITY FALLS FROM TREES, NEW WORLD, PRINCIPIA, DRIZZLE AND OTHER STORIES, wAve, YI SANG COUNTS TO THIRTEEN, INFINITUDE, and GALOIS. His work has been produced by East West Players, Thick Description, Asian American Theater Company, North West Asian American Theater, San Diego Asian American Rep, Dance Theater Workshop, Immigrants' Theater Project, Seoul International Theater Festival, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, and the New York International Fringe Festival. Honors include a 2003-2004 NEA/TCG Playwriting Fellowship, the 2003 Whitfield-Cook Prize, a New York Fringe Festival Excellence in Overall Production Award (for YI SANG COUNTS TO THIRTEEN, directed by the author); a Van Lier/New Dramatists playwriting fellowship; a Van Lier/New York Theater Workshop playwriting fellowship; first prize in the Seattle Multicultural Playwrights' Festival; commissions from the Mark Taper Forum, the Joseph Papp Public Theater and Ma-Yi Theater; an artistic residency at Mabou Mines; and honorable mention in the 2001 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. His plays and poetry are published in the anthologies But Still, Like Air, I'll Rise (Temple Press); Premonitions (Kaya Press); The Nuyorasian Anthology (AAWW); and Echoes Upon Echoes (AAWW). He received a BA from Harvard and an MFA from Brown. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and New Dramatists.

For script inquiries, please contact the author's representative:

Bruce Ostler
Bret Adams Ltd.
448 West 44th Street
New York, NY 10036
(212) 765-5630
(212) 265-2212 fax
Email: bostler@bretadamsltd.com

Sung can also be contacted via email at: sjrno@yahoo.com