1975-2008
Venue
Role: Director of the production.
BD Wong's directorial debut.
Venue: Williams College '62 Center for Theatre and Dance, Williamstown Theatre Festival
Role: Herringbone and 10 other characters
Venue: Sag Harbor
Role: Leading Player
BD Wong played another multi-character/multi-personality role, with the added attraction of song and dance routines.
Pacific Overtures (12 November 2004 - 30 January 2005)
Venue: Studio 54
Role: The Reciter
A Roundabout Theatre Company / Gorgeous Entertainment Inc. presentation of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's Pacific Overtures. BD Wong played the Reciter and filled numerous other stage and audio roles in this production.
Our Town (13 August - 1 September 2002)
Venue: Bay Street Theatre, Sag Harbor
Role: Mr Webb
Director: Jack Hofsiss
Auntie Mame (One off public reading, November 24 2003)
Venue: John Jay College Theatre
Role: Ito, a butler.
Auntie Mame was a benefit reading for Broadway Cares, starring Charles Busch.
Notes: The reading was televised for Broadway Beat, a theatre cable channel.
Shanghai Moon (January 3 2003 - March 9 2003)
Venue:
Role: General Gao Fei
"Murder, mystery and scandal in 1931 Shanghai. Lady Sylvia Allington (Charles Busch) is the beautiful, young American-born wife of a British diplomat. Slowly and sensually she is seduced by the mysteries of the East, in the form of General Gao Fei (BD Wong).
Notes: Charles Busch played prison inmate Nat Ginzberg alongside BD Wong in HBO's Oz.
Herringbone (May 2002)
Venue: None (show cancelled before any public performances)
Roles: BD Wong was to have played all the parts in this show, including an eight year old boy, a song and dance man, and a floozy.
Oedipus Rex (October 2000)
Venue: York Theatre Company
Role: The Chorus
Oedipus Rex starred Al Pacino
Chaucer in Rome (28 July - 8 August 1999)
Venue: Williamstown Theatre Festival
Role: Matt, a shallow artist
Bosoms and Neglect (January 1999)
Venue: Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre
BD Wong stepped in for the final three performances of this revival.
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (1998-1999)
Venue: Ambassador Theatre, Broadway
Role: Linus
Venue: New York City's Greenwich House Theatre
A Drama Dept production
A Language of Their Own
Venue: New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre
A four-man play about first love in Boston's gay Asian community, starring BD Wong and David Drake.
Portrait of Five Figures (1995)
Venue: Lincoln Centre Theatre
Role: Mark
by David Henry Hwang
The Nanjing Race (1994)
McCarter Theatre, Princeton
Role: Yuahn
First performed as part of 'Winter's Tales '94'
Directed by Loretta Greco, written by Reggie Cheong-Leen.
Wong played an alienated, angry young Japanese-American on a business trip to China.
Notes: Rehersals for The Nanjing Race started as soon as Wong returned from shooting Men of War in Thailand.
Bosoms and Neglect
by David Henry Hwang
Herringbone (1993)
starring Julie Halson
Russian Tea Room (1993)
Peter Pan (1993)
Kansas City Starlight
Role: Peter Pan
directed by Philip W. McKinley
starring David Ogden Stiers
Face Value (1992 - 1993)
Cort Theatre, Broadway
Role: Randall Lee
Play written by David Henry Hwang
8 previews between 9 March and 14 March 1993
The Tempest (1989-1990)
Roundabout Theatre Company, New York NY
Role: Ariel
starring Frank Lagella
Eugene O'Neill Theater
Role: Song Liling
Written by David Henry Hwang
777 performances between 20 March 1988 and 27 January 1990
See Below Middle Sea (198?)
Coast Play House, Los Angeles
Role: Ensemble
As Bradd Wong
Mail (1987)
Pasadena Play House, California
Role: Pitchman
As Bradd Wong
Gifts of the Magi (1986)
The Coast Playhouse
A musical adaptation of the short story by O. Henry
Starring Dale Christian and B.D. Wong
La Cage Aux Folles
Los Angeles productions
no details known
Androcles and the Lion (1982)
New York's Town Hall
Grease (1980)
Directed, designed and choreographed
Mame (1979)
BD Wong's High School Years:
BD Wong graduated in the Class of '78, but before that was involved in the following productions, studying drama under Zorra Chanes.
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Spring 1978)
Lincoln High
Directed by Zorra Chanes
BD Wong played the lead role of J. Pierpont Finch. He also designed the set and choreographed.
Charlie's Aunt (Autumn 1977)
Lincoln High
Directed by Zorra Chanes
BD Wong played the part of Lord Fancourt Babberley. He also designed the set.
The Matchmaker (Autumn 1977)
Lincoln High
Directed by Zorra Chanes
BD Wong played the role of Barnaby Tucker. He also designed the set.
Godspell (Summer 1977)
Palladium Dinner Theatre Directed/chorography by Edward Blair
BD Wong played the role of Jeffrey.
Music Man (1977)
Lincoln High
Directed by Zorra Chanes
BD Wong played the role of Dr Harold Hill.
The Wizard of Oz (1977)
Lincoln High
Role: Munchkin Coroner
Guys and Dolls (Spring 1976)
Lincoln High
Directed by Zorra Chanes
BD Wong played the role of Rusty, Joey Biltmore, Hot Box MC and 1st Cuban.
Peanuts (1975)
Community Theatre Production, a local YMCA Bradd Wong's first outing as Linus, aged 15. see: BD Wong Interview (New York Daily News January 31, 1999)