Jesse Jae Hoon

The Great War is over. The Kaiser has abdicated. Chaos rules in 1920 Berlin. Communist Greta and Liberal Christa spend their days on opposite sides of the boxing ring and their nights cuddling in a disheveled Neukölln apartment. But they will soon find themselves on opposite sides of a building coup d'etat in this tragic romantic thriller about loyalty, courage, the rise of the far right, and the fight to stay alive.

I'VE GOT A SINKING FEELING IN THE PIT OF MY STOMACH was developed by Rattlestick Theater through the Terrence McNally New Works Incubator in partnership with The Terrence McNally Foundation.

Two young Asian adoptees, Kayla and Brenna, meet at a Midwestern suburban “adoption party” while their white parents cry in the other room. What begins as a dispiriting search for their birth families through their untrustworthy adoption agency becomes an intimate-yet-volatile friendship built over their shared gallows humor, tempestuous insecurity, and debilitating terror of abandonment. DO YOU THINK I’M ANNOYING? is a coming-of-age cyclone exploring the grief of a forgotten loss, obsessive compulsion, and whether two people with opposing coping mechanisms can help each other through.

DO YOU THINK I'M ANNOYING? was originally commissioned by Theater J’s Expanding the Canon Program.

Former nobleman Ippolit Mateyevich Vorobyaninov’s dreary life in the early Soviet Union is about to change forever when he discovers his spiteful mother-in-law hid the family jewels in one of their dining room chairs before the Revolution. Together with a dashing con artist, Vorobyaninov must embark on an epic quest across Russia to recover the lost riches. Based on the 1928 novel by Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov, 12 CHAIRS is an epic adventure satire exploring glory, greed, and a country desperate for the advancement of the collective good. It is a commentary on the Soviet Union and nothing else. Yeah, nothing else. You can’t prove otherwise, you haven’t even seen it. Wow, maybe you should see the play before contradicting us, you ever think about that? Wow. There’s always one. Do better.

In this time-jumping fever dream satire, bestselling Asian American author Olivia returns to the Chinatown she wrote about, but the only thing that feels welcoming in the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood is a group of successful old college classmates who have recently moved in and are suddenly very excited to hang out with her. Olivia believes she has finally found her community — but the more she learns about her new friends’ role in transforming the area, the more she feels like she has to choose between the lifestyle her career has afforded her and the values she preaches in her writing.
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SOMEBODY IS LOOKING BACK AT ME was developed as part of The Playwrights Realm’s Writing Fellowship (Katherine Kovner, Founding Artistic Director | Roberta Pereira, Executive Director).

Best friends Irene and Mandip can't focus on their jobs at the nameless national coffee chain and want to change the horrifying shit around them – not knowing where to turn, they seek answers from their personal moral compass: actor Benedict Cumberbatch. A dark satire and a riff on Bertolt Brecht's JASAGER and NEINSAGER, BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, AM I IRREDEEMABLE? teaches about the dangers of seeking change through rugged individualism and consumption. A Lehrstück created in collaboration with Ma-Yi Theater Company as part of Creatives Rebuild New York's Artist Employment Program.

This play is a circle. When federal funding for food banks can only provide blocks of fortified cheese, Diana Song and Lanie set out against all the odds to feed their neighborhood. Part Lehrstück and part raucous comedy, BAGS explores the dishearteningly cyclical nature of organizing and teaches about the importance of continued engagement & the power of mutual aid.

In the newly created center of Berlin’s Northern Vietnamese community, Lili, a 14-year-old Vietnamese middle school student, and her sister Nathalie struggle to repair their relationship after the death of their late mother. When Lili befriends her German former bully – who has a dark secret of his own – the sisters' relationship to their adopted country and to each other will be pushed to the brink.

A landlord. A tenant. All the neighbors. Based on the real-life Bangladeshi Tenants Union in Queens, NY, ALWAYS EAT THE FOOD is a Lehrstück that follows the forming of a tenants union against a predatory real estate company.

A group of young socialists crash a lavish Democratic Party fundraiser and come face to face with the end of the world. A horror-satire about corruption, organizing, and hope in the face of impending doom.

Inspired by Euripides’ THE BACCHAE, THE HOUSE OF BILLY PAUL follows Rachel, an impressionable young YouTuber as she is swept into the orbit of her longtime YouTube hero Billy Paul. But when her sister, Lara, discovers the YouTube star’s horrifying past, and with no help from her family, it will be up to Lara to get her sister out before it’s too late.

Two chickens have their heads removed and will die in ten minutes but shit, man, death is scary!

AUDIO PLAY VERSION – COMMISSIONED BY THE PARSNIP SHIP'S RADIO ROOTS FELLOWSHIP

Former nobleman Ippolit Mateyevich Vorobyaninov’s dreary life in the early Soviet Union is about to change forever when he discovers his spiteful mother-in-law hid the family jewels in one of their dining room chairs before the Revolution. Together with a dashing con artist, Vorobyaninov must embark on an epic quest across Russia to recover the lost riches. Based on the 1928 novel by Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov, 12 CHAIRS is an epic adventure satire exploring glory, greed, and a country desperate for the advancement of the collective good. It is a commentary on the Soviet Union and nothing else. Yeah, nothing else. You can’t prove otherwise, you haven’t even seen it. Wow, maybe you should see the play before contradicting us, you ever think about that? Wow. There’s always one. Do better.

Hahahaha oh darling What an absolutely divine day for Helena and Elizabeth to reminisce and dish in the lobby of the Drake Hotel. Betrayal is in the air!

Delia and Nora seek an answer to the everpresent question of how to solve racism under neoliberal capitalism, and Delia has a great idea: she's going to make an Academy Award®-winning movie.