Greetings! I’m so excited to invite you to my play disOriented, which opens this Wednesday, February 16th at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre on 42nd Street! disOriented is directed by Carlos Armesto, Artistic Director of Theatre C, and features Ariel Estrada, Daniel K. Isaac, Talym Jinn Kim, Julian Charles Leong, Bert Matias, Amy Kim Waschke, […]
Read MoreGreetings from New York! As you can tell, I’m trying out a new format for my sporadic, Kyoung Updates. As it turns out, my mailing list has grown to a point where I need an e-mailing service to catch up with you all. Hopefully, this will be a better way for me to communicate with […]
Read MoreGreetings! I hope you can come see my latest project: Walkabout Yeolha, an adaptation of Samshik Pai’s play “Inching Towards Yeolha,” directed by Kon Yi and produced by Columbia Stages/Columbia University. There are short features on the play published by the Korea Daily and the Columbia Spectator. You can read more about the project in […]
Read MoreGreetings from New York! I hope everyone’s enjoying a great summer. I’m working on two projects in New York and I’d love to have you come see my work if you’re in town. The first is a free, public reading of my play HEARTBREAK/INDIA, which I began writing five (yikes!) years ago and wrote in […]
Read MoreGreetings! I hope this email finds you well! It’s been some time since I’ve written a Kyoung Update, so I thought I’d share with you some news! I am thrilled to let you know that I’ve been awarded a 2010 UNESCO-Aschberg award to write a new play this winter, while in residency at Sanskriti Pratishtan […]
Read MoreGreetings! I would like to invite you to the reading of my new play, HEARTBREAK/INDIA, taking place next Monday, October 5th (7PM) at Theater for a New City. HEARTBREAK/INDIA is a new work-in-progress that tells the story of ONE, a high-ranking UN diplomat who falls in love with his Korean-Chilean-American intern, “X, Y, Z.” As […]
Read MoreGreetings from Chile! I returned to Santiago, Chile this Monday after participating in a 3-month international exchange program with Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Augusto Boal, 2008 Nobel Peace Prize nominee and 2009 UNESCO Ambassador for Theater, unfortunately passed away a month after I arrived in Rio. My experience […]
Read MoreHello everyone! I am in New York for two more weeks before I start travelling all over again! If you’re in New York, I’d like to invite you to the workshop production of my play, “disOriented,” which I’m working on with Diverse City Theater Company and the amazing director, Carlos Armesto. When: Saturday, February 14 […]
Read MoreHello folks! I’m back in New York and it’s amazing to be writing again! I’m having two pieces performed next month and it’d be great if you came to see my work! The first is a very funny short play I’ve written for Youngblood. The co-artistic directors of the company, RJ and Graeme, have let […]
Read MoreHello everyone! Greetings from South Korea! I hope everyone’s doing well. I wanted to share with you some news about my latest play, “disOriented,” which will be presented in the upcoming months in South Korea and New York. This means I’m traveling this winter and looking forward to cool-off, quite literally, in Chicago, Ottawa, and […]
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