Dear 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 MoreGreetings! Kyoung’s Pacific Beat invites you to a studio presentation of THE INDIA PLAYS, our new work-in-progress. THE INDIA PLAYS is a diptych of two new plays, HEARTBREAK/INDIA and THE DIAMOND TRADE, which will be presented as a single, live performance that engages with diverse artists and audiences in a performative investigation that addresses toxic […]
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 New York! I write this Kyoung Update with a heavy heart. The recent mass shooting in Orlando has gravely upset me, as a queer man, as a Latino artist, as an Asian-American artist, and new American. I think about the senseless violence that is killing the young of this country and how Kyoung’s […]
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! 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 […]
Read MoreGreetings! 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 […]
Read MoreGreetings! 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 […]
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 […]
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