Today is the UN International Day of Peace. In celebration of this day, I’d like to share with you some of my reflections based on some recent travels to Chile, South Korea, and my work in New York. I think the greatest challenge as an artist has been to address the new Presidency and what […]
Read MoreDear friends, Greetings from Santiago! I’m currently in Chile with the Theater Communications Group (TCG), Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP), and Global Theater Initiative (GTI) US delegation to the Festival Internacional Santiago a Mil. This week, I’ll be seeing the best in contemporary Chilean theater, in addition to exciting productions from abroad. I’ll return […]
Read MoreDear friends, Greetings from New York! I’m thrilled to share with you exciting news about Kyoung’s Pacific Beat’s upcoming season. We are kicking it off with a jam-packed calendar of activities in October and I hope you’ll be able to join us through our journey. PILLOWTALK Kyoung’s Pacific Beat’s new work-in-progress, PILLOWTALK, is currently in […]
Read MoreGreetings from Chile! As 2015 comes to an end, I’d like to take a moment to take stock of the many ups and downs I’ve had with my playwriting and theater company, Kyoung’s Pacific Beat. We started the year with a bang—the World Premiere of TALA at the Performance Project @ University Settlement. TALA blended […]
Read MoreGreetings! Things have been hectic since I graduated from Columbia, as I’m preparing to launch my theater company Pacific Beat Collective (PBC) this fall. Pacific Beat Collective has been my dream since I started graduate school, and it’s become more and more of a necessity as I stabilize my career, and my life, in New […]
Read MoreGreetings! I’d like to invite you to my upcoming workshop production of TALA. TALA is my senior thesis project for Columbia’s MFA program in playwriting and the first project I’m writing/directing as Artistic Director of Pacific Beat Collective, a new theater company I’m preparing to launch after graduation. TALA is a meta-theatrical play performed by Rafael Benoit, Daniel […]
Read MoreGreetings from Santiago! I’ve just returned from a trip to Chiloé, a southern Chilean island, where I spent the Christmas holidays with my family and gathered research materials for my thesis play, TALA. For pictures from my trip, click here. CHILOÉ Chiloé is a peculiar island, full of idiosyncrasies. It was first occupied by Spanish […]
Read MoreGreetings from New York! I find this Kyoung Update hard to write and something I’ve been delaying for a few months. Perhaps it’s difficult to write because I’ve been struggling to shift gears in my work, or perhaps it’s hard to write because it’s the first time I think something’s beginning to change. Here’s the […]
Read MoreToday is Sept 18th. National Independence Day of Chile. I miss dancing cueca, drinking wine and eating empanadas. It is raining outside… And somehow, the rain seems to inspire me, once in a while, to write a poem… ********************************* I AM A MAN OF WORDS by: Kyoung H. Park I am a man of words: […]
Read MoreHey everyone, I’m leaving to Korea in a month (hooray!) and I’ve touched base with some of my fellow peers (which are not that many.) It turns out the Grad School I’m attending (gip.khu.ac.kr) only accepted 4 Korean students, and 3 Foreign students for the fall semester. We’ll be joining the existing student body of […]
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