Brooklyn, New York
Born 1974, Daegu, Korea
Writer, director
When starting a play, I ask myself, "What's the last play in the world I would ever want to write?" Then I force myself to write it. I do this because I've found that the best way to make theater that unsettles and challenges my audience is to do things that make me uncomfortable. I work with stories that I find trite and embarrassing, I keep the development of the text as open and unstable as possible throughout the rehearsal and performance process, and I emphasize rather than hide problems in the text and production. I'm constantly trying to find value in unexpected places. My work is about struggling to achieve something in the face of failure and incompetence and not-knowing. The discomfort and awkwardness involved in watching this struggle reflects the truth of my experience.
2005 M.F.A., Playwriting, Brooklyn College
1996- Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of California, Berkeley
1996 B.A., English, University of California, Berkeley
2005- Resident Artist, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY 2003- Member, 13P (13 Playwrights, Inc.), New York, NY
2005 Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, performed in workshop and premiered at HERE Arts Center, New York
2005 Pullman, WA, premiered at P.S. 122, New York
2004 The Appeal, premiered at Soho Rep, New York
2003 Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, premiered at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, New York
2007 Jerome Foundation Grant
2006 Greenwall Foundation Grant
2006 Rockefeller MAP Foundation Grant
2003 The MacArthur Graduate Scholarship, Playwriting
