Hansol Jung is a member of the Ma-Yi Theater Writers' Lab and was a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.
22 Facts About Hansol Jung
1.
2.
At age 20, Hansol Jung studied abroad as an exchange student at New York University; three years later, she moved to the United States.
3.
Hansol Jung began an MFA in musical theatre directing at Pennsylvania State University, before transferring to receive an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.
4.
Hansol Jung has translated over thirty English-language musicals into Korean, including Spamalot, Dracula, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Evita.
5.
Hansol Jung has worked as a theatre director and lyricist in South Korea.
6.
In 2015, Hansol Jung participated in a residency at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference, where she developed her play Cardboard Piano.
7.
That year, Hansol Jung was one of three playwrights to be selected for the New York Theatre Workshop's 2050 Fellowship.
8.
Hansol Jung was the 2016 Playwriting Fellow at Page 73 Theatre.
9.
Hansol Jung is a member of the Ma-Yi Theater Writers' Lab.
10.
Hansol Jung's plays Cardboard Piano, No More Sad Things, and Wolf Play were all listed on the 2015 Kilroys' List, which recognizes excellence in un-produced or rarely produced works by women, transgender, and non-binary playwrights.
11.
Hansol Jung was the playwright with the most plays on the list that year.
12.
In 2020, Hansol Jung was commissioned by Alliance Theatre to write an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet as part of their Classic Remix Project.
13.
Hansol Jung participated in the 24 Hour Plays project in March 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown.
14.
Hansol Jung wrote the monologue "Cocktail Class" which was then performed by Ashlie Atkinson.
15.
Hansol Jung was commissioned to create work for Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and the Telephonic Literary Union's telephone theatrical event, Human Resources.
16.
Hansol Jung's volume is titled Doodles from the Margins: Three Plays and will feature Wolf Play, No More Sad Things, and Wild Goose Dreams and will include doodles and notes from Hansol Jung in the margins.
17.
Hansol Jung was part of the entirely LGBT writing staff of the 2019 Netflix miniseries Tales Of The City.
18.
In 2021, Hansol Jung was selected to be a participant in the Writers Guild of America, East's first Showrunner Academy program.
19.
Hansol Jung was a writer for the 2022 Apple TV+ show, Pachinko.
20.
Hansol Jung is writing a television adaptation of C Pam Zhang's novel How Much of These Hills is Gold.
21.
Hansol Jung wrote the first thirty pages in Korean before translating them into English.
22.
Hansol Jung was inspired to write Wolf Play after reading a news article about Facebook and Yahoo groups used by some adoptive parents to re-home their adopted children, usually from other countries.