SELECTED DIRECTING & WRITING

2026

Hot Pot — Director
By Hongwei Bao, produced by AUKA Productions Limited.
UK Tour: Playhouse East, London; Lakeside Arts Performing Arts Studio, Nottingham; Stage One @ Leeds; Langton Green Festival.

Royal Thai Massage — Writer & Director
Momentum Scratch, Ad Infinitum / Bristol Old Vic, Bristol

2025

Cancelling Tiger — Writer & Director
John Lyons Theatre, Bloomsbury Festival, London

Temperature of Technology (devised) — Director
Five Shorts, Young Vic, London

Faith, Hope and Charity — Director
by Alexander Zeldin, ArtsEd, London

We're Boiling Alfred Baines — Director
by Mackie Reyes, Union Theatre / Greenwich Theatre, London

Standing In Between (dance) — Director
Theatre Deli / Union Theatre / Kingston Museum, London

Reflexes — Director
by Will Pattle, Theatre503, London

2024

Bear — Director
Orange Tree Theatre, London

Cancelling Patji — Director
Omnibus Theatre, London

2023

Pokapola, PacDonalds, and the Death of the Last Polarbear — Librettist
Finalist, Dramatists Guild Foundation National Fellowship

2022

Miss Julie (Musical) — Director & Librettist
Gamagol Theatre Company, Busan & Red Theatre, Masan, South Korea (2022)
Originally staged at Guerrilla Theatre for the Strindberg Centennial Festival,
in collaboration with National Theatre of Korea and Intima Teatern (Sweden), Seoul (2012)

Assistant Directing & Collaborations

Suite in Three Keys — Assistant Director
Dir. Tom Littler, Orange Tree Theatre / Theatre Royal Bath, 2024

Northanger Abbey — Assistant Director
Dir. Tessa Walker, Orange Tree Theatre & UK Tour, 2023–2024

Meetings — Assistant Director
Dir. Kalungi Ssebandeke, Orange Tree Theatre, 2023

Yerma — Assistant Director
Dir. Imogen Francis, Rose Bruford College, 2022

King Lear — Backstage Interpreter
Dir. Youngdu Jeong, Barbican Centre, London, 2025

Earlier Work

The Prologue — Writer & Director
30 Studio, Seoul, South Korea; South Korean Tour; Fukuoka International Theatre Festival, Japan, 2017–2018

As You Like It — Director
Forest Theater, Miryang Performing Arts Festival, South Korea, 2016

The Man Who Never Yet Saw Women’s Nakedness — Translator & Director
by Moritz Rinke, Guerrilla Theatre, Seoul, South Korea, 2014
Best Young Director, Korean Shakespeare Awards

The Fountain — Writer & Director
Daegu International Musical Theatre Festival & South Korean Tour, 2011–2012
Winner, Best New Musical, DIMF Awards

PRODUCING & INTERNATIONAL WORK

Blood Wedding — Producer / International Liaison
Dir. Yountaek Lee, Ibero-American Theater Festival of Bogotá, Colombia, 2014

The Hour That We Knew Nothing About Each Other — Producer & Translator
Dir. Kate Flatt, Miryang Performing Arts Festival, South Korea, 2014

The Lesson — Assistant Producer
Dir. Yountaek Lee, National Theatre Festival, Bucharest, Romania, 2012

Macbeth — Producer & Translator
Dir. Alexander Zeldin, Guerrilla Theatre, Seoul, South Korea, 2011
Winner, Best Dramaturg, Korean Shakespeare Awards

Hamlet — Producer / International Liaison
Dir. Yountaek Lee, Craiova International Shakespeare Festival, Romania; Ibero-American Theater Festival of Bogotá, Colombia, 2010–2012

EMPLOYMENT

Orange Tree Theatre — Resident Assistant Director, London, UK, 2023–2024
Bread and Puppet Theatre — Staff Puppeteer, Vermont, USA, 2020–2022
Andersen Theatre — Associate Director, Busan, South Korea, 2016–2018
Gamagol Theatre — Resident Director & Producer, Busan, South Korea, 2010–2018

TEACHING & FACILITATION

Lyric Hammersmith Theatre — Lecturer, Springboard Programme, 2025–2026
University of West London — Lecturer, Puppetry for Social Change, 2025
ArtsEd — Visiting Director, 2025
Rose Bruford College — Visiting Director, 2024
Selected previous teaching in South Korea: Seoul Arts Institute, Yongin University and Daekyung University, 2012–2018

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Women Opera Makers, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, France, 2026
Mentored by Katie Mitchell

MFA, Theatre Directing, Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 2022
Dean’s Bursary Recipient

MFA, Musical Theatre Writing, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA, 2010

BA, Journalism, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, 2006