Kyoung Update: Chiloé, New York

By kyoung / December 30, 2011 / Comments Off on Kyoung Update: Chiloé, New York

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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Kyoung Update: New York, Vermont, Provincetown, Chiloé

By kyoung / October 4, 2011 / Comments Off on Kyoung Update: New York, Vermont, Provincetown, Chiloé

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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Kyoung Update: New York

By kyoung / April 11, 2011 / Comments Off on Kyoung Update: New York

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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Kyoung Update: disOriented

By kyoung / February 14, 2011 / Comments Off on Kyoung Update: disOriented

Greetings! I’m so excited to invite you to my play disOriented, which opens this Wednesday, February 16th at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre on 42nd Street! disOriented is directed by Carlos Armesto, Artistic Director of Theatre C, and features Ariel Estrada, Daniel K. Isaac, Talym Jinn Kim, Julian Charles Leong, Bert Matias, Amy Kim Waschke, […]

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Kyoung Update: New Delhi, New York

By kyoung / January 31, 2011 / Comments Off on Kyoung Update: New Delhi, New York

Greetings from New York! As you can tell, I’m trying out a new format for my sporadic, Kyoung Updates. As it turns out, my mailing list has grown to a point where I need an e-mailing service to catch up with you all. Hopefully, this will be a better way for me to communicate with […]

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Kyoung Update: Walkabout Yeolha

By kyoung / October 7, 2010 / Comments Off on Kyoung Update: Walkabout Yeolha

Greetings! I hope you can come see my latest project: Walkabout Yeolha, an adaptation of Samshik Pai’s play “Inching Towards Yeolha,” directed by Kon Yi and produced by Columbia Stages/Columbia University. There are short features on the play published by the Korea Daily and the Columbia Spectator. You can read more about the project in […]

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Kyoung Update: New York

By kyoung / June 8, 2010 / Comments Off on Kyoung Update: New York

Greetings from New York! I hope everyone’s enjoying a great summer. I’m working on two projects in New York and I’d love to have you come see my work if you’re in town. The first is a free, public reading of my play HEARTBREAK/INDIA, which I began writing five (yikes!) years ago and wrote in […]

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Kyoung Update: New York, New Delhi

By kyoung / February 3, 2010 / Comments Off on Kyoung Update: New York, New Delhi

Greetings! I hope this email finds you well! It’s been some time since I’ve written a Kyoung Update, so I thought I’d share with you some news! I am thrilled to let you know that I’ve been awarded a 2010 UNESCO-Aschberg award to write a new play this winter, while in residency at Sanskriti Pratishtan […]

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Kyoung Update: New York

By kyoung / September 30, 2009 / Comments Off on Kyoung Update: New York

Greetings! I would like to invite you to the reading of my new play, HEARTBREAK/INDIA, taking place next Monday, October 5th (7PM) at Theater for a New City. HEARTBREAK/INDIA is a new work-in-progress that tells the story of ONE, a high-ranking UN diplomat who falls in love with his Korean-Chilean-American intern, “X, Y, Z.” As […]

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Kyoung Update: Santiago, Brazil (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bello Horizonte, Caxias do Sul), New York

By kyoung / July 9, 2009 / Comments Off on Kyoung Update: Santiago, Brazil (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bello Horizonte, Caxias do Sul), New York

Greetings from Chile! I returned to Santiago, Chile this Monday after participating in a 3-month international exchange program with Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Augusto Boal, 2008 Nobel Peace Prize nominee and 2009 UNESCO Ambassador for Theater, unfortunately passed away a month after I arrived in Rio. My experience […]

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