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Myung-Wha Kim is a playwright and director. She made her debut as a playwright with Birds Do Not Cross the Crosswalk, which won the Samsung Literary Award for Best Play in 1997. Her plays include First Birthday, The Wind's Desire, Redolence, and The End of the Royal Palace Dining Hall, among others. She won numerous awards including the Cha Beom-Seok Theater Award, Daesan Literary Award, Dong-A Theater Award, the Grand Prize in the Asahi Shimbun Theatrical Arts Award, and Yeo Seok-Gi Theater Critic Award. She founded Nanhee Theatre Company in 2018, which became The Nanhee in 2020, and took up directing. The Nanhee's productions include Mimaji!, Dionysus Under the Magnolia, and Cold Noodles. Walter Byongsok Chon is a dramaturg, critic, translator, educator, and theatre scholar from South Korea. He is the associate professor of dramaturgy at Ithaca College. Dramaturgy: Yale Rep, O'Neill Center, New York Musical Festival. Co-author of Dramaturgy: The Basics. Recipient: 2022 Daesan Foundation Translation Grant and 2024 Bogliasco Fellowship. Walter Byongsok Chon is a dramaturg, critic, translator, educator, and theatre scholar from South Korea. He is the associate professor of dramaturgy at Ithaca College. Dramaturgy: Yale Rep, O'Neill Center, New York Musical Festival. Co-author of Dramaturgy: The Basics. Recipient: 2022 Daesan Foundation Translation Grant and 2024 Bogliasco Fellowship. |
