Hansol Jung

Hansol Jung is a playwright and director from South Korea. Productions include Merry Me (New York Theater Workshop), Wolf Play (Soho Rep, NNPN Rolling Premiere: Artists Rep, Company One), Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse), Cardboard Piano (Humana Festival at ATL), Among the Dead (Ma-Yi Theatre), and No More Sad Things (Sideshow, Boise Contemporary). Awards include Lucille Lortel Award for Best Play, OBIE Award, Steinberg Award, Whiting Award, Helen Merrill Award. Commissions from The Kennedy Center, The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, National Theatre in UK, Playwrights Horizons, Artists Repertory Theater, Ma-Yi Theatre and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Her work has been developed at Royal Court, New York Theatre Workshop, Hedgebrook, Berkeley Repertory, Sundance Theatre Lab, O’Neill Theater Center, and the Lark. Hansol is the recipient of the Hodder Fellowship, Page 73 Fellowship, Lark’s Rita Goldberg Fellowship, NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship, MacDowell Artist Residency, and International Playwrights Residency at Royal Court (UK).

Hansol has written for the Netflix series Tales of the City and the Apple+ series Pachinko and has developed new projects for film and television with Bad Robot, Amazon Studios, Apple+ TV, Fifth Season Production and Kindred Spirit among others.

She is a proud member of NYTW’s Usual Suspects, Kilroys and a founding member of the new play collective The Pack.

MFA: Yale.