Jiehae Park

Jiehae Park’s plays include peerless (Yale Rep premiere, upcoming at Primary Stages), Hannah and the Dread Gazebo (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Here We Are Here (Sundance, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Princess Grace WIP @ Baryshnikov Arts Center), The Aves (Alley All-New, McCarter Spotlight Festival), contributions to Wondrous Strange (Humana/ATL), and the book for the upcoming musical Kill the Boyband.

Development: Soho Rep Writer-Director Lab, the Public’s Emerging Writers Group, p73, Playwrights Horizons, CTG Writers Workshop, Atlantic, PlayCo, Old Globe, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Ojai Conference, BAPF, and the amazing Ma-Yi Writers Lab.

Awards: Leah Ryan, Princess Grace, Weissberger, ANPF Women’s Invitational.

Commissions: Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, Geffen, OSF, MTC/Sloan.

Residencies: MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, McCarter/Sallie B. Goodman.

As a performer, she most recently appeared in Celine Song’s ENDLINGS (NYTW, ART), and Ripe Time/Naomi Iizuka’s adaption of Murakami’s SLEEP (BAM Next Wave, Yale Rep).

TV writing: Marvel’s RUNAWAYS; currently developing a new show with Diana Son for Tomorrow Studios/Apple.

She is a NYTW Usual Suspect, Lincoln Center Theater New Writer in Residence, former Hodder Fellow, current New Dramatist, and 2019-20 Tow Playwright-in-Residence at Primary Stages. BA, Amherst; MFA, UCSD.

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