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 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! 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 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 […]
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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