Jiehae Park

Jiehae Park’s Hannah and the Dread Gazebo won the Princess Grace Award and Leah Ryan Prize in 2013, and was on the first annual Kilroys List. Work developed through: Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep Lab, EWG at the Public, Cherry Lane, NYTW, Berkeley Rep, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and Ma-Yi Writers Lab. She is a recent DG fellow, MacDowell and Yaddo resident, and the 2014 facilitator for NYTW’s Mind the Gap intergenerational playwriting workshop. As a performer: NYTW, La Jolla Playhouse, Collection of Shiny Objects, Studio Theatre, Tiny Little Band @ Prelude, REDCAT. BA), Amherst College; MFA (acting), UCSD.

CREDITS

Hannah and the Dread Gazebo (full-length)
2013 Princess Grace Award (reading dir. Mia Rovegno)
2013 Leah Ryan Prize for Emerging Women Writers (reading dir. Jose Zayas)
2014 The Kilroys List of top 46 plays recommended for production
Selection, 2013 Ojai Playwrights Conference (dir. May Adrales)
Selection, 2013 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (dir. M. Graham Smith)
Selection, 2015 LOCAL Lab (dir. Pesha Rudnick)
Abingdon Theatre (NY), 2012, dir. Nelson Eusebio (reading)
Torrance Cultural Arts Center (CA), June 2013, dir. Jennifer Chang (reading)
East West Players (LA), October 2013, dir. Jennifer Chang (reading)
Finalist, 2013 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
Semifinalist, 2013 Premiere Stages Festival
Finalist, 2012 Christopher Wolk Award

Here We are Here (full-length in collaboration w/designer Tristan Jeffers, in progress)
Ground Floor @ Berkeley Rep, June 2014 (2-week residency and reading)
New York Theatre Workshop, April 2015 (reading, upcoming)