KYOUNG H. PARK is a Korean-Chilean playwright, author of Sex and Hunger, Walkabout Yeolha, disOriented, Heartbreak/India, The Diamond Trade, and many short plays including Mina. Kyoung has worked internationally in Brazil, Chile, England, India, South Korea and his plays have been presented in New York by 2G,  Access Theater, Diverse City Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, La MaMa ETC, Ma-Yi Theater, Theatre C, Vital Theater, and the Royal Court Theatre in London.

Kyoung is recipient of an Edward Albee Playwriting Fellowship (New York, 04), Kyung Hee University’s Global Academy of Neo-Renaissance grant (Seoul, 06), Arvon Foundation Writer’s grant (London, 07), Global Arts Village Fellowship (New Delhi, 08), GK Foundation grant (Suwon, 08), Theater of the Oppressed Exchange Fellowship (Rio de Janeiro, 09), Princess Grace Foundation Special Projects grant via Theatre C (New York, 10) and the UNESCO-Aschberg award (Paris, 10). Kyoung is member of the Ma-Yi Theater’s Writer’s Lab, Ensemble Studio Theater’s Youngblood, Soho Theater’s Writer’s Hub and was Writer-in-Residence at Sanskriti Pratishthan (New Delhi) and the Vermont Studio Center.

Education: BFA in Dramatic Writing, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. MA in Peace and Global Governance, Kyung Hee University’s Graduate Institute of Peace Studies (South Korea / 1994 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education). Former Visiting Professor at Kyung Hee University’s School of English Language and Culture, Kyoung is currently a Dean’s Fellow at Columbia University’s MFA program in playwriting, working on his thesis play Tala under the mentorship of Lee Breuer.