Performance Dates & Times
Friday, October 13 at 7:30pm (preview performance)
Saturday, October 14 at 3:00pm (preview performance)
Saturday, October 14th at 7:30pm (opening)
Sunday, October 15 at 3:00pm
Monday, October 16 at 7:30pm
Wednesday October 18 at 7:30pm
Thursday October 19 at 7:30pm
Friday, October 20 at 7:30pm
Saturday, October 21 at 3:00pm & 7:30pm
Sunday, October 22 at 3:00pm
There will be an affinity dialogue with a panel of AAPI artists after this performance. All are welcome but we especially encourage anyone who identifies as a member of the AAPI community to attend!
Wednesday, October 25 at 7:30pm
Thursday, October 26 at 7:30pm
Friday, October 27 at 7:30pm
Saturday, October 28 at 7:00pm
Run time: 75 minutes
Location
20 Putnam Avenue in Brooklyn, C or G train to Clinton-Washington. Accessible station at Franklin Avenue C/Shuttle train.
Jeesun Choi:
To the Ends of the Earth / 땅끝까지
by Jeesun Choi
Director: Keenan Tyler Oliphant
Producer: Sami Pyne
Featuring: Bridget Kim* and Yeena Sung*
Stage Manager: Maggie Manzano*
Scenic design by: Emmie Finckel
Costume design by: Hahnji Jang (장한지)
Lighting design by: Abby Hoke-Brady
Sound design by: Bailey Trierweiler, Daniela Hart, Noel Nichols & UptownWorks
Production Manager: Shannon Molly Flynn
Associate Producer: Sierra Lancaster
Community Outreach Consultant: Taeeun Yeo
Casting by: Claire Yenson
*appears courtesy of Actors Equity Association.
Two strangers - perhaps a mother and daughter, best friends, or even rivals - encounter each other in an unexpected place. They talk. They argue. They confess. They blame. They question. They tackle, again and again, the stories from their lives. To the Ends of the Earth / 땅끝까지 is a bilingual play about the Korean diaspora and personhood as told by a constellation of women+ characters.
About the Artists
Jeesun Choi (Playwright) is a transnational Korean playwright, librettist, and physical theatre artist. Select plays: BUST, To the Ends of the Earth / 땅끝까지, Lost Coast, and The Seekers. Her work has been presented at Soho Rep, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Realm, Bushwick Starr, American Opera Project, Prelude Festival, Nashville Rep, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Red Eye Theatre. She has been honored with the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, NYC Women's Fund, MacDowell Fellowship, and more. A member of DGA. MFA, Dell'Arte International. www.jeesunchoi.com
Keenan Tyler Oliphant (Director) is a Theatre-maker and Director from South Cape Town whose work is in the lineage of the communal theatre-making and storytelling traditions of Southern Africa. Hadestown (associate director); The Singularity Play (Havard TDM) Will You Come with Me? US Premiere, PlayCo (director); Oratorio for Living Things (associate director); Intro To (Ensemble Stage Theatre); Kyk Hoe Skyn die Son (Clubbed Thumb); queen (Dixon Place). Drama League Fellow 2021/2022; Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow 2020/2021. www.keenantyleroliphant.com
Sami Pyne (Producer) is an independent producer passionate about decluttering and demystifying the process for creators. She's had the pleasure of producing work with 600 Highwaymen, The Arts & Climate Initiative, The Exponential Festival, Clubbed Thumb, The Martin E. Segal Center, HERE Arts Center, and more! Currently the producing director for ArKtype, one of the world's leading supporters of new, experimental work. Fellow of WP Theater's 2022-2024 Producers Lab. Columbia University Theatre Management & Producing MFA program, 2020. www.samipyne.com
To the Ends of the Earth / 땅끝까지 is a participant in New Georges’ Supported Productions program, in which we provide resources, mentorship and an institutional platform to our affiliated artists who are producing their work independently. This project is made possible with support from The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation. To the Ends of the Earth / 땅끝까지 would like to extend special thanks to IndieSpace for the facilitation of their AAPI Transportation Fund which has directly supported members of our team accessing safe rides during this process.