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ABOUT
The story of Prince Gomolvilas is a story of forbidden love. It is a story about a love so shocking that statues have crumbled and grown men have crapped their pants. It is, alas, a story about how much Prince Gomolvilas is in love with...himself.
Prince is perhaps best known as a playwright. Here's the proof:
His one-act play, DONUT HOLES IN ORBIT, was also produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Smithsonian Institution. (Yes, that's right, the Smithfuckingsonian!)
His work has also been developed at the American Conservatory Theater, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Ford Amphitheatre, The Lark Theatre Company, Mark Taper Forum, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, and South Coast Repertory.
For some damn reason, colleges and high schools like to mount his work too: Lafayette Senior High School (Wildwood, MO), Las Positas College (Livermore, CA), Lee-Davis High School (Mechanicsville, VA), Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (Liverpool, UK), Pomona College (Claremont, CA), San Francisco State University (San Francisco, CA), University of California at Davis (Davis, CA), and Westridge School (Pasadena, CA).
JUKEBOX STORIES is a critically acclaimed storytelling, song-singing, game-playing, comic duo that features Prince and singer/songwriter Brandon Patton. In addition to their two highly praised full-length shows that ran for six weeks each at Impact Theatre in Berkeley in 2006 and 2008, JUKEBOX STORIES has also toured to theaters, colleges, bars, and coffeehouses in Boston, Los Angeles, Middletown (CT), Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Smithfield (RI), and Washington, DC. Prince and Brandon continue to tour regularly.
Prince has also presented his stories at such venues as Space 180 at the APAture arts festival (San Francisco), A Different Light Bookstore (West Hollywood), Intersection for the Arts (San Francisco), [INSIDE] the Ford Amphitheatre (Los Angeles), and Westridge School (Pasadena).
Out of 2,593 applicants, Prince was selected for a kick-ass fellowship with The Chesterfield Writer's Film Project, a program sponsored by Paramount Pictures.
He is currently developing two new screenplays, which he can't talk about, in collaboration with people whom he can't mention.
OSKAR: THE KID THAT COULD, which was developed at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, is a play that promotes literacy and that tours elementary schools, in rotation with OSKAR AND THE BULLY. A trilogy of 40-character plays—URBAN AFFAIRS, EVERYTHING AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, and WINNERS AND LOSERS—were written for performance exclusively by eighth-grade students at the San Francisco Day School. OUTSPOKEN, which was developed at the New Conservatory Theatre Center's YouthAware Educational Theatre in San Francisco, is a play that looks at the many reasons teenagers feel ostracized and that tours middle and high schools. And A SIMPLE PITHY GUIDE, which was commissioned by the University of California at Davis, is an educational theater piece about diversity and gender equity that has become a regular part of the Teaching Resources Center training program.
Prince is the recipient of the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild/Julie Harris Playwright Award, International Herald Tribune/SRT Playwriting Award, PEN Center USA West Literary Award for Drama, and East West Players' Made in America Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement for the Asian Pacific Islander Community—EWP is the leading Asian-American theater, as well as the longest-running theater of color, in the United States.
But the powers that be still won't give him a goddamn Pulitzer. Ungrateful bastards!
Instead, he's had to settle for huge-ass grants from the National Endowment for the Arts/Theatre Communications Group's Residency Program for Playwrights and the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation's New Play Production Program.
THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING was published by Dramatic Publishing. DONUT HOLES IN ORBIT was published in Smith and Kraus's EST Marathon 1998: The One-Act Plays. Some of Prince's monologues appear in the Smith and Kraus anthologies, Best Men's Stage Monologues 2002, Best Women's Stage Monologues 2002, and Audition Aresenal For Men In Their 20s. And his one-act play, CRITICAL MASS, was published by the online literary journal, Lodestar Quarterly.
Prince regularly facilitates writing workshops in Northern and Southern California for teenagers and adults. He has worked with the East West Players' David Henry Hwang Institute, New Conservatory Theatre Center's Writers Workshop (which he helped launch), TheatreWorks' Young Playwrights' Initiative, French-American International School of San Francisco, Los Altos High School, Palo Alto High School, Saratoga High School, and Sir Francis Drake High School.
He has been a guest speaker and/or a guest panelist at the California State Summer School for the Arts, California State University at Fresno, Pomona College, San Francisco Arts Institute, San Francisco Day School, San Francisco State University, the Smithsonian Institution (yes, that's right, the Smithfuckingsonian!), University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Riverside, University of Colorado at Boulder, Westridge School (Pasadena, CA), Asian American Theater Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and Theatre Bay Area.
Prince spent the first part of his thrilling life in places such as Indianapolis, Indiana (where his kindergarten teacher couldn't pronounce his Thai name "Khamolpat" or his nickname "Bin" and arbitrarily crowned him "Prince"), Bangkok, Thailand (where he learned to eat foods spicy enough to rip most people new assholes), and Monrovia, California (a suburb so quaint that you wish there were a few crackhouses somewhere). He currently lives and writes in Los Angeles, with extended visits to San Francisco.
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