Garrett David Kim

Garrett David Kim (he/him) is a theater-maker & educator based in New York City who creates plays that collage styles & capture intersectional experiences. His writing includes Are You There Truman?… (2021 Barbour Award), Where You Go When You’re Gone (Ars Nova Out Loud), and his play cycle (Belligerency, Deliver Us, and Kim’s Fine Food, so far) chronicling his family’s 100+ year history since leaving the Korean peninsula. He’s developed & presented work at Page 73, Ars Nova, Fault Line Theater, The New Harmony Project, Parsnip Ship, Pride Plays/Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The 24 Hour Plays, and more. He has also written for & directed original work created by the young people of Hell’s Kitchen at The 52nd Street Project, where he works as their Program Director. B.A. Fordham...

Garrett David Kim (he/him) is a theater-maker & educator based in New York City who creates plays that collage styles & capture intersectional experiences. His writing includes Are You There Truman?… (2021 Barbour Award), Where You Go When You’re Gone (Ars Nova Out Loud), and his play cycle (Belligerency, Deliver Us, and Kim’s Fine Food, so far) chronicling his family’s 100+ year history since leaving the Korean peninsula. He’s developed & presented work at Page 73, Ars Nova, Fault Line Theater, The New Harmony Project, Parsnip Ship, Pride Plays/Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The 24 Hour Plays, and more. He has also written for & directed original work created by the young people of Hell’s Kitchen at The 52nd Street Project, where he works as their Program Director. B.A. Fordham University. garrettdavidkim.com

Scripts

Are You There Truman? It’s Me, Just Another Guy Who Grew Up Secretly Worshipping Your Chiseled Porn Star Body Online, And Now I Think I Love You

by Garrett David Kim

Synopsis

How's a gay, Asian, hopelessly romantic twenty-something from Ohio supposed to get off when the porn⏤*ahem* adult film⏤star he's fallen for has gotten out of the biz? Guy looks for love online & IRL, in the past & in the present, but all roads lead back to the rugged, All-American (white) stud Truman. ARE YOU THERE TRUMAN? follows one queer person making sense of his relationships, his colonized desires, and his...

How's a gay, Asian, hopelessly romantic twenty-something from Ohio supposed to get off when the porn⏤*ahem* adult film⏤star he's fallen for has gotten out of the biz? Guy looks for love online & IRL, in the past & in the present, but all roads lead back to the rugged, All-American (white) stud Truman. ARE YOU THERE TRUMAN? follows one queer person making sense of his relationships, his colonized desires, and his own consciousness to tear down the walls around his heart.

Belligerency

by Garrett David Kim

Synopsis

Three Korean-American siblings are grappling with their identity and their strained relationships when the dmz falls through their parents’ dining table, sending them on a surreal journey through their divided motherland. As their stories unfold simultaneously, they’re forced to take sides that aren’t as good or bad as they had believed. And even though they want to put their home back together, maybe the losses...

Three Korean-American siblings are grappling with their identity and their strained relationships when the dmz falls through their parents’ dining table, sending them on a surreal journey through their divided motherland. As their stories unfold simultaneously, they’re forced to take sides that aren’t as good or bad as they had believed. And even though they want to put their home back together, maybe the losses are just too great. Belligerency is a play about the battlegrounds where wars are waged and what happens to the people caught in the crossfire.

Deliver Us

by Garrett David Kim

Synopsis

Garrett has complicated feelings about his Catholic upbringing, as a queer person, as an AAPI person, and as a person whose existence in America depended on an ancestor sneaking out of Korea using a Bible. He’s tried to write a play (with music) by himself that’s like, a new version of mass, but his family has other plans.

Garrett has complicated feelings about his Catholic upbringing, as a queer person, as an AAPI person, and as a person whose existence in America depended on an ancestor sneaking out of Korea using a Bible. He’s tried to write a play (with music) by himself that’s like, a new version of mass, but his family has other plans.

Kim's Fine Food

by Garrett David Kim

Synopsis

Three has this insatiable hunger. The generations who came before him try to help, heaping more and more onto his plate, until he's completely overcome by the history he wants to understand. He wants to know who they were, so he can know who he is. But he might not be ready to stomach that the connection to his heritage that he craves is what his ancestors had to leave behind when they came to the USA. Kim's...

Three has this insatiable hunger. The generations who came before him try to help, heaping more and more onto his plate, until he's completely overcome by the history he wants to understand. He wants to know who they were, so he can know who he is. But he might not be ready to stomach that the connection to his heritage that he craves is what his ancestors had to leave behind when they came to the USA. Kim's Fine Food is a play about family, what we choose to hand down from generation to generation, and what we're eating for dinner.

Where You Go When You're Gone

by Garrett David Kim

Synopsis

Breaking news: the world is ending!! And on a quiet Midwestern cul-du-sac, three queer doomsday preppers brace themselves for the apocalypse. Inside, they watch the weather, keep their cache well-stocked, and sing along to old CDs to pass the time. But the world keeps turning even as Jayce, Hollis, and Meggy wait for it to be over. And when shit hits the fan, what will they have left to save? Where You Go When...

Breaking news: the world is ending!! And on a quiet Midwestern cul-du-sac, three queer doomsday preppers brace themselves for the apocalypse. Inside, they watch the weather, keep their cache well-stocked, and sing along to old CDs to pass the time. But the world keeps turning even as Jayce, Hollis, and Meggy wait for it to be over. And when shit hits the fan, what will they have left to save? Where You Go When You’re Gone is a play about living when everything seems to be ending⏤more on this at 11.