Jiehae Park

Playwright

Jiehae Park

Jiehae Park peerless recently received its world premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre and was part of the 2015 Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project. Park is one of the writers of Wondrous Strange (Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival, 2016). Her work has been developed through the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Playwrights Horizons, Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Ground Floor, Playwrights Realm, the Emerging Writers Group at the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Old Globe Theatre, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and the amazing Ma-Yi Writers Lab. Her play Hannah and the Dread Gazebo won the Leah Ryan Prize, Princess Grace Award, L. Arnold Weissberger Award, and Grand Prize in the Ashland New Plays Festival Women’s Invitational; her plays also have been included in two years of the Kilroys List. Commissions: Playwrights Horizons, McCarter Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival. Residencies: MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and McCarter/Sallie B. Goodman. She will be a 2016-17 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. As a performer: La Jolla Playhouse, Studio Theatre, Tiny Little Band, REDCAT, and the upcoming Sleep with Ripe Time/The PlayCo. B.A., Amherst; M.F.A., UCSD. 

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