This week in the studio we have Jennifer Chang and Seonjae Kim. They are fellows with the Drama League and
participating in their Directorfest in NYC. Their plays Clitorish and First Love touch on relationship, politics and love.
JENNIFER CHANG is a multidisciplinary artist with Ovation Award and Stage Scene LA award-honored works. She is
a founding member of Chalk Repertory Theatre. She has taught at the East West Players and guest directed at USC
and at Texas State University, San Marcos for the Black and Latino Playwrights. She is a member of the Stage
Directors and Choreographer's Society, Screen Actors Guild, and Actor's Equity Association. She is the current Head
of Undergraduate Acting at UCSD. BFA: Tisch/ NYU; MFA: UCSD. Director's Lab West, National Director's Fellowship
Finalist 2017.
Seonjae Kim is originally from Seoul, South Korea. Riot Antigone, her original Riot Grrrl musical adaptation of
Sophocles' tragedy, premiered at La MaMa and received productions at ANTFest and Bryn Mawr College. She
recently served as Associate Director for the immersive musical KPOP (Ars Nova/Ma-Yi/Woodshed Collective). Her
work has been seen at Atlantic Theatre Company, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Dixon Place, Williamstown, PEN/World
Voices Festival, New York Theatre Barn, Prelude Festival and Chicago Fringe. Honors: Van Lier Fellowship (Asian
American Arts Alliance), Mike Ockrent Fellowship (SCDF), and Robert Moss Fellowship (Playwrights Horizons). New
Georges Affiliated Artist. BA: Northwestern.