Kyoung H. Park is a North Korean playwright/director, born and raised in Santiago, Chile, currently living in Brooklyn, New York. As Artistic Director of Kyoung’s Pacific Beat, a peacemaking theater company, he has devised three full-length plays — disOriented, TALA, and PILLOWTALK — and created over 20 community-based, experimental projects including performances for new media. His work centers stories of (im)migration, queerness, trauma, identity and the ways these intersect in communities of color; it’s described as “intensely personal” by American Theater Magazine and “very much of this moment” by the New York Times.
Kyoung's Pacific Beat has been a resident company at The Tank, Bushwick Starr, Baryshnikov Arts Center, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, BRIC Arts Media, Performance Project @ University Settlement, and Kyoung has worked internationally in Santiago (Chile), Rio de Janeiro, London, New Delhi, and Seoul. MFA in Playwriting: Columbia University, MA in Peace and Global Governance, Kyung Hee University.