Jiehae Park

Jiehae Park's plays peerless, Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, and the aves have been produced at Primary Stages, Yale Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Berkeley Rep, among others. Awards: Steinberg, Blackburn Finalist, Princess Grace, Weissberger, Leah Ryan, ANPF Women’s Invitational, Edgerton. Development: Alley, McCarter, the Public, Soho Rep, Barishnikov, p73, ACT, Ground Floor, Playwrights Horizons, CTG, Atlantic, PlayCo, Old Globe, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Ojai, Ma-Yi Writers Lab. Current commissions: Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, Geffen, Roundhouse. Residencies: MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, McCarter/Sallie B. Goodman. TV writing: Hello Tomorrow!, The Morning Show, Marvel's Runaways, Kurt Anderson/Steven Soderbergh’s Command Z (WGA nom); development with Tomorrow Studios...

Jiehae Park's plays peerless, Hannah and the Dread Gazebo, and the aves have been produced at Primary Stages, Yale Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Berkeley Rep, among others. Awards: Steinberg, Blackburn Finalist, Princess Grace, Weissberger, Leah Ryan, ANPF Women’s Invitational, Edgerton. Development: Alley, McCarter, the Public, Soho Rep, Barishnikov, p73, ACT, Ground Floor, Playwrights Horizons, CTG, Atlantic, PlayCo, Old Globe, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Ojai, Ma-Yi Writers Lab. Current commissions: Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, Geffen, Roundhouse. Residencies: MacDowell, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, McCarter/Sallie B. Goodman. TV writing: Hello Tomorrow!, The Morning Show, Marvel's Runaways, Kurt Anderson/Steven Soderbergh’s Command Z (WGA nom); development with Tomorrow Studios/Apple, Anonymous/Fifth Season/CJ. As a performer: Command Z, Celine Song’s Endlings (NYTW, ART), and Ripe Time/Naomi Iizuka's adaption of Murakami's Sleep (BAM Next Wave, Yale Rep). Former Tow and Hodder Fellow; current NYTW Usual Suspect, Lincoln Center Theater writer in residence, and New Dramatist.

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Scripts

HERE WE ARE HERE

by Jiehae Park

Cast Size
3—5
Genre
comedy,
drama

created with designer Tristan Jeffers

created with designer Tristan Jeffers

THE AVES

by Jiehae Park

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy,
drama,
immersive,
tragedy

a delicate tragicomedy about getting older.

a delicate tragicomedy about getting older.

peerless (aka untitled high school macbeth, hsmb)

by Jiehae Park

11
Cast Size
5
Genre
comedy,
dark comedy

Asian-American twins M&L have given up everything to get into The College. So when a classmate gets “their” spot instead, they figure they’ve got only one option: kill him. A dark comedy about ambition, scarcity, and the desperate need to belong.

Asian-American twins M&L have given up everything to get into The College. So when a classmate gets “their” spot instead, they figure they’ve got only one option: kill him. A dark comedy about ambition, scarcity, and the desperate need to belong.

HANNAH AND THE DREAD GAZEBO

by Jiehae Park

4
Cast Size
6
Genre
adventure,
comedy,
dark comedy,
fable/folktale

Inside the FedEx box are two things: a 100% bona-fide-heart’s-desire-level wish and a suicide note. Hannah tracks the package back to Korea, where her grandmother recently jumped from the roof of the Sunrise Dewdrop Apartment City for Senior Living onto the wrong side of the Demilitarized Zone. Oops.

Inside the FedEx box are two things: a 100% bona-fide-heart’s-desire-level wish and a suicide note. Hannah tracks the package back to Korea, where her grandmother recently jumped from the roof of the Sunrise Dewdrop Apartment City for Senior Living onto the wrong side of the Demilitarized Zone. Oops.