Asian American Prominent at Page 73’s Season

Leah Nanako Winkler’s Kentucky (April 2016) opens their season and Hansol Jung will be the 2016 P73 Playwriting Fellow, which supports a playwright who has yet to have a professional premiere in New York City. Jung was selected from 350 applicants, and will receive a $10,000 award in addition to $10,000 for the development of several new plays over the course of the year. Jung is a graduate of Penn State University and the Yale School of Drama. Prior to moving to the U.S., she had a career translating American musicals into Korean in her native Seoul. Her plans for the fellowship include a play exploring the drug industry and further work on a romantic tragedy between a North Korean defector and her South Korean lover. Page 73 will produce at least one public workshop of Jung’s work.

http://www.americantheatre.org/2016/02/10/page-73-announces-new-leadership-awards-and-2016-productions/