Namoo (she/they) is a UK-based Theatre director and writer from South Korea.

Her work is political and formally experimental, questioning existing norms through an East Asian female lens. She explores themes of cultural colonialism, feminism, liminality and restorative justice across new writing, classics, musicals, opera, dance and puppetry. Namoo often draws inspiration from folklore and mythology featuring powerful female figures, reimagining these tales as contemporary narratives.

She places actors’ physicality at the heart of her stage language and uses form as a key storytelling tool. With a background in Korean ritual theatre, she believes theatre is a space that speaks to — and for — the invisible. This perspective shapes her physical and ceremonial approach to performance, where embodied storytelling animates both classical and contemporary texts. She studied musical theatre at Tisch, NYU, performed as a puppeteer with the political theatre company Bread and Puppet in Vermont, and worked as Resident Assistant Director at the Orange Tree Theatre in London.

She is Artistic Director of Kassna Kollektiv, an East Asian female-led interdisciplinary collective. She is currently an Origins Director at Headlong Theatre Company, part of Projekt Empower with Projekt Europa, and a member of the Criterion Writers’ Group. She is also the recipient of prestigious MacDowell Colony Fellowship 2025.