Julyana Soelistyo is an American stage and film actress who, in , was
nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her
performance in Golden Child.Julyana Soelistyo was born to Roman
Catholic parents in Sumatra, Indonesia. She attended school in Penang,
Malaysia, taking lessons in piano and violin. Later, she attended
Oregon State University, where she appeared in productions of The
Tempest (as Ariel), Les Liaisons Charmantes, The Misanthrope and Piaf.
After Soelistyo graduated in , she attended San Francisco's American
Conservatory Theater to earn her MFA. During - , Soelistyo played the
title characters, all of which were children, in the Seattle
Children's Theatre plays Naomi's Road, Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland, and Still Life with Iris.Soelistyo met David Henry Hwang
at the debut reading of Golden Child in California, after being
recommended by Hwang's friend Judy Nihei. She was tapped to originate
the role of Eng Ahn, the title character; in the play, Soelistyo
portrayed both the -year-old and the -year-old Ahn. Golden Child,
which premiered at the Off-Broadway Joseph Papp Public Theater, was
reworked and moved to Broadway's Longacre Theatre, where Soelistyo
continued in her role. She received largely positive reviews. The New
York Times's Vincent Canby described her performance as "magical", and
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer deemed her an "outstanding female
newcomer". Soelistyo won a Clarence Derwent Award and was nominated
for a Tony Award, but lost to Anna Manahan.She has also appeared in
the Yale Repertory Theatre's performance of Iphigenia at Aulis, as
Cordelia and the Fool in the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival's
performance of King Lear, Imogen in Cymbeline at the Intiman Theatre
in Seattle, Dorie in the world premiere of On the Jump, and the
Daughter of Antiochus/ Marina in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's
Pericles.
nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her
performance in Golden Child.Julyana Soelistyo was born to Roman
Catholic parents in Sumatra, Indonesia. She attended school in Penang,
Malaysia, taking lessons in piano and violin. Later, she attended
Oregon State University, where she appeared in productions of The
Tempest (as Ariel), Les Liaisons Charmantes, The Misanthrope and Piaf.
After Soelistyo graduated in , she attended San Francisco's American
Conservatory Theater to earn her MFA. During - , Soelistyo played the
title characters, all of which were children, in the Seattle
Children's Theatre plays Naomi's Road, Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland, and Still Life with Iris.Soelistyo met David Henry Hwang
at the debut reading of Golden Child in California, after being
recommended by Hwang's friend Judy Nihei. She was tapped to originate
the role of Eng Ahn, the title character; in the play, Soelistyo
portrayed both the -year-old and the -year-old Ahn. Golden Child,
which premiered at the Off-Broadway Joseph Papp Public Theater, was
reworked and moved to Broadway's Longacre Theatre, where Soelistyo
continued in her role. She received largely positive reviews. The New
York Times's Vincent Canby described her performance as "magical", and
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer deemed her an "outstanding female
newcomer". Soelistyo won a Clarence Derwent Award and was nominated
for a Tony Award, but lost to Anna Manahan.She has also appeared in
the Yale Repertory Theatre's performance of Iphigenia at Aulis, as
Cordelia and the Fool in the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival's
performance of King Lear, Imogen in Cymbeline at the Intiman Theatre
in Seattle, Dorie in the world premiere of On the Jump, and the
Daughter of Antiochus/ Marina in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's
Pericles.
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