Jiehae Park

Jiehae Park

In one season at OSF: Playwright, Hanna and The Dread Gazebo (2017)

Other theatres: Peerless (Yale Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Mentor Project, Barrington Stage Company, Moxie Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, First Floor Theater, Company One); Wondrous Strange (contributing writer, Actors Theater of Louisville/Humana Festival of New American Plays). Park’s work has been produced or developed through Sundance Theatre-Makers Residency, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep’s W/D Lab, Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Ground Floor, The Public Theater’s 2015 Emerging Writers Group, Page 73’s I73, New York Theater Workshop, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and Ma-Yi Writers Lab.

Awards: Leah Ryan Prize, Princess Grace Award, Ashland New Plays Festival’s Women’s Invitational, two years of the Kilroy’s List. 

Commissions: Playwrights Horizons, McCarter Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan Foundation. 

Residencies: MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, McCarter Theatre Center’s Sallie B. Goodman Artist Retreat. She is a NYTW Usual Suspect, Lincoln Center Theater New Writer in Residence, and 2016-17 Hodder Fellow at Princeton. 

Education: MFA, University of California, San Diego; BA, Amherst College.