Biography
Jiehae Park's plays include peerless (Yale Repertory Theatre world premiere; Cherry Lane Mentor Project workshop production; Marin Theatre Company; Barrington Stage Company; Company One Theatre; Moxie Theatre), Hannah and the Dread Gazebo (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Here We Are Here (Sundance Theatre-Makers Residency, the Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Princess Grace Works In Progress Residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center), and Wondrous Strange (co-author, 2016 Humana Festival). Development: Soho Rep, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, Page 73's Interstate 73, New York Theatre Workshop, The Old Globe, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and the Ma-Yi Writers Lab. Awards: Leah Ryan Prize, Princess Grace Award, L. Arnold Weissberger Award, ANPF Women's Invitational Prize, and two years on The Kilroys' List. Commissions: Playwrights Horizons, McCarter Theatre Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club / Sloan Foundation. Residencies: The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, and the McCarter Theatre's Sallie B. Goodman Artists' Retreat. Park is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, a Lincoln Center Theater New Writer in Residence, and a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. As a performer, Park's credits include La Jolla Playhouse, Studio Theatre, Tiny Little Band, REDCAT, and most recently Sleep (Ripe Time/The Play Company) and Every Angel is Brutal (Clubbed Thumb). Park holds a B.A. from Amherst College and an M.F.A. from the University of California, San Diego.
