December 11th at 7:30 PM

Jeesun Choi:
Untitled/
Diaspora 

They are Koreans. They talk. They argue. They confess. They blame. They question. They live, again and again, the stories from their lives. An excerpt from a longer play.
(Photo credit: Sara Guaglione)

This will be performed as part of a double bill with Tomorrow As It Will Be by Maxi Hawkeye Canion

About the artists

Jeesun Choi

Jeesun Choi is a transnational Korean playwright and physical theatre artist. Her plays move through diaspora, (im)migration, transnationalism to reveal the joy and agony of the human condition. Selected plays: BUST (Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab); Lost Coast (Playwrights Realm's INK'D Festival, Nashville Rep’s New Works Festival); The Seekers (Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Bushwick Starr Reading Series). She was awarded Artist of Exceptional Merit by Asian American Arts Alliance, and currently is the Writing Fellow at Playwrights Realm, Librettist Fellow at American Opera Project, a member of EST/Youngblood, and a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop. MFA Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre, Dell’Arte International. jeesunchoi.com

Sarah Shin

Sarah Shin (she/her/hers) is a Korean American theatre artist originating from the small town of Schwenksville. Sarah recently directed Manuka by Jeesun Choi (Youngbloods @ Ensemble Studio Theatre), Final Contact (Central Square Theater), and The First Pineapple And Other Folktales (Central Square Theater). In addition to co-founding AATAB (Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston), Sarah is on the Steering Committee of API Arts Network, serves as a Board Member for StageSource, National Queer Theatre Artistic Collective Member, and recently had a virtual residency at Asian American Arts Alliance. BFA Theatre Arts Boston University www.sarah-shin.com IG: @shinnysarah