Background
Iizuka"s mother is an American Latina attorney and her father is a Japanese banker. Born in Tokyo, Iizuka grew up in Japan, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
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Iizuka"s mother is an American Latina attorney and her father is a Japanese banker. Born in Tokyo, Iizuka grew up in Japan, Indonesia, the Netherlands, and Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Iizuka attended the National Cathedral School, has her Bachelor in classical literature from Yale University in 1987, and spent one year at Yale Law School before eventually receiving her Master of Fine Arts in playwriting from University of California, San Diego in 1992.
Iizuka"s works often have a non-linear storyline and are influenced by her multicultural background. She has lived in Iowa and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. She 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 University of California Santa Barbara until January 2008 when she took over as the head of Master of Fine Arts playwrighting at her alma mater, University of California, San Diego. 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.
1995 Jerome Fellowship 1996 McKnight Advancement Grant 1998 Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Center United States of America West Award for Drama 1998 Princeton University’s Hodder Fellowship 1999 Whiting Award 2001 National Education Association/TCG Artist-in-Residence Grant 2001 Stavis Award from the National Theatre Conference 2001 Rockefeller Foundation Map grant 2005 Alpert Award in the Arts 2006 Joyce Award winner 2007 Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award winner for a playwright in mid-career Gerobe Foundation Fellowship.
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