Greetings! I’m excited to invite you to the first workshop production of Kyoung’s Pacific Beat’s PILLOWTALK, which will be developed as Artist-in-Residence at the BRIC Arts Media Center in Brooklyn. PILLOWTALK is an intimate two-character drama centered around Sam and Buck, a newlywed interracial gay couple. Using inventive staging incorporating elements of ballet’s pas de […]
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Greetings! I’m so happy to share with you great news! The World Premiere of TALA is receiving rave reviews and I want you to come see it! Our final two performances will be this Thursday, Jan. 22nd and Friday, Jan. 23rd at 8PM and the show must close on the 23rd. I hope you’ll join
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Greetings! After a year and a half of absence, it is awesome to share with you the latest Kyoung Update. This period of time has been of tremendous growth, leading to some of the most amazing changes in my life. This year, I have finally established my own theater company—Kyoung’s Pacific Beat, a peacemaking theater
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Greetings from New York! This is my last Kyoung Update. I have some great news to share, and then I need to disappear and re-think what I’m doing. These past few months have been a whirlwind, the ups and downs of being a freelance artist have finally caught up with me, and this is about
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Greetings! It’s been a while since my last Kyoung Update. I’m burning the midnight oil writing this one before going to Wesleyan University on tour with Mabou Mines, so here’s a brief recap. After launching PBC and producing a second workshop production of TALA at HERE’s Summer Sublet Series, I had a meltdown. A series of really awful
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Greetings! 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
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Greetings! 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
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Greetings 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
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Greetings 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
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Greetings! I’d like to invite you to an upcoming workshop production of HEARTBREAK/INDIA, a new play with dance directed by Snehal Desai and choreographed by Yin Yue. The play will be performed this weekend, from April 15-17 at Columbia University’s Schapiro Studio. Set behind the scenes of the United Nations, HEARTBREAK/INDIA exposes the secret affairs
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