David Henry Hwang Vi Dang
The award is presented in recognition of distinguished lifetime achievement in theatrical writing.
Tony winner David Henry Hwang has been named the recipient of The Dramatists Guild of America's 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award. The award will be presented to Hwang at the Guild’s annual awards ceremony April 28.
"Over the last four-and-a-half decades, David's ever-increasing body of work endures as one of the great contributions to the American theatre canon,” says Samuel D. Hunter, co-chair of the awards committee, in a statement. “I couldn't be more thrilled that we are celebrating David with the Guild's highest honor. His generosity, grace, humor, craft, and deep intelligence has profoundly influenced entire generations of theatre artists, myself included. I'm thrilled to see what lies ahead for him."