Hansol Jung, Playwright
Hansol Jung is a playwright and director from South Korea. Productions include Cardboard Piano
(Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville), Among the Dead (Ma-Yi Theatre Company), No More Sad Things (co-world premiere at Sideshow Theatre, and Boise Contemporary Theatre), Wolf Play (Artists Repertory Theatre) and Wild Goose Dreams (La Jolla Theater and The Public Theater). Commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Artists Repertory Theater, the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation grant with Ma-Yi Theatre and a translation of Romeo and Juliet for Play On! at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Her work has been developed at the Royal Court, New York Theatre Workshop, Berkeley Repertory’s Ground Floor, Sundance Theatre Lab, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Lark Play Development Center, Salt Lake Acting Company, Boston Court Theatre, Bushwick Starr, Ma-Yi Theater Company, Asia Society New York, and Seven Devils Playwright Conference. She is the recipient of the Page 73 Playwright Fellowship, Rita Goldberg Playwrights’ Workshop Fellowship at the Lark, 2050 Fellowship at New York Theater Workshop, MacDowell Colony Artist Residency, and International Playwrights Residency at Royal Court. She has translated over thirty English musicals into Korean, including Evita, Dracula, Spamalot, and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, while working on several award-winning musical theatre productions as director, lyricist and translator in Seoul, South Korea. Jung holds a Playwriting MFA from Yale School of Drama, and is a proud member of the Ma-Yi Theatre Writers Lab.
Elizabeth Carter, Director
A San Francisco Bay Area theatre actor/director, her most recent regional directing credits include Sweat (Center Rep), Confederates (St. Louis Rep). Past productions: Stoop Stories (Aurora Theatre Co.); Every 28 Hours Plays and A Place To Belong (American Conservatory Theater’s Conservatory); associate director on the ripple the wave that carried me home (Berkeley Rep/Goodman Theatre); and assistant director of How I Learned What I Learned (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). She directed the ground breaking 2020 virtual King Lear, (San Francisco Shakespeare Festival), and Feel the Spirit (Shotgun Players/Colt Coeur NYC). Her production of for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf (African American Shakespeare Co.) was named Broadway World Best Play. Her directorial film debut, Bottled Spirits, will be released later this year. She is a recipient of the Bridging the Gap Grant and is a 2019 alum of Directors Lab West. Elizabeth is the Inaugural SDCF Lloyd Richards New Futures Resident Director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and is a 2023 Princess Grace Award Nominee.
THE CAST
SAM BERTKEN
(Peter)
CALEB CABRERA (Ryan)
LAURA DOMINGO (Robin)
MIKEE LORIA (Wolf)
GABBY MOMAH (Ash)
THE CREATIVE TEAM
JAMES ARD -
Sound Designer, Composer
MADELINE BERGER-
Costume Designer
EMMANUEL BLACKWELL -
Boxing Consultant
ELIZABETH CARTER -
Director
VINCENT CHAU -
Props Designer
LIA FINDLEY -
Wardrobe Assistant
KATHRYN GUBLER -
Stage Manager
MAYA HERBSMAN -
Intimacy Choreographer
STEPHANIE JOHNSON -
Lighting Designer
DAVE MAIER - Fight Director
CELESTE MARTORE - Set Designer
ASHLEY MUNDAY - Electrics & Sound Supervisor
ASHLEY RENEE - Costume Assistant
CLAIRE RENOE - Assistant Stage Manager (M.A.D Fellow)
FRED RILEY - Puppetry Designer
CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE THEATER - Scenic Construction
OLLIE WIMBUSH - Props & Scenic Assistant (M.A.D Fellow)
