WEIKO LIN
Born in Taiwan and fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Weiko immigrated to the United States when he was eight years-old and grew up in Pasadena, California. He received his B.A. in English (Creative Writing) and M.F.A. in Film and Television at University of California at Los Angeles.
Recipient of a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award and a finalist of both the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship and Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, Weiko's original plays and musical productions have been produced, workshopped, or received stage readings at various theaters. They include UCLA Royce Hall, UCLA Black Box, Veteran's Wadsworth Theater, David Henry Hwang Theater, Chicago's Silk Road Rising, Century City Playhouse, The Loft Ensemble, and Japanese American National Museum.
For film and TV, he has written projects for companies such as The Walt Disney Company, The Mark Gordon Company, Reason Pictures, Madhouse Entertainment, Don Mischer Productions, Ivanhoe Pictures, The Unison Company (Taiwan), and Wanda Pictures (China).
A Fulbright Senior Specialist, Weiko has taught playwriting and/or screenwriting at Northwestern University, UCLA, Taipei National University of the Arts, and University of California at Riverside. Based in Los Angeles and Boston, he is currently an Assistant Professor at School of the Arts at Emerson College.
Born in Taiwan and fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Weiko immigrated to the United States when he was eight years-old and grew up in Pasadena, California. He received his B.A. in English (Creative Writing) and M.F.A. in Film and Television at University of California at Los Angeles.
Recipient of a Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award and a finalist of both the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship and Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, Weiko's original plays and musical productions have been produced, workshopped, or received stage readings at various theaters. They include UCLA Royce Hall, UCLA Black Box, Veteran's Wadsworth Theater, David Henry Hwang Theater, Chicago's Silk Road Rising, Century City Playhouse, The Loft Ensemble, and Japanese American National Museum.
For film and TV, he has written projects for companies such as The Walt Disney Company, The Mark Gordon Company, Reason Pictures, Madhouse Entertainment, Don Mischer Productions, Ivanhoe Pictures, The Unison Company (Taiwan), and Wanda Pictures (China).
A Fulbright Senior Specialist, Weiko has taught playwriting and/or screenwriting at Northwestern University, UCLA, Taipei National University of the Arts, and University of California at Riverside. Based in Los Angeles and Boston, he is currently an Assistant Professor at School of the Arts at Emerson College.
