The Dynasty Cycle
I’ve embarked on a play cycle about my Korean-American family’s 100+ history in the United States. I’ve been sourcing text from family photo albums, interviews, and stories passed down through my family. Each play will explore different aspects of our Korean-American identity.
Belligerency explores loss, division, and the fallout of imperialism in the Korean peninsula.
Deliver Us explores faith, religion, and what it means to belong to a family
Kim’s Fine Food explores my grandfather’s childhood at his family’s restaurant in Depression-era Los Angeles
Deliver Us
7 actors
Garrett has complicated feelings about his Catholic upbringing, as a queer person, as an AAPI person, and as a person whose existence in America depended on an ancestor sneaking out of Korea using a Bible. He’s tried to write a play (with music) by himself that’s like, a new version of mass, but his family has other plans.
Development:
In collaboration with Avi Amon
The New Harmony Project [May-June 2022]
Ars Nova Play Group
Kim’s Fine Food
8 actors
A play about an immigrant family, hungry for the American Dream.
Development:
Page 73 Writers Group [2024]
Big Sky Theater Workshop [July 2016]
Awards:
Finalist, Blue Ink Playwriting Award, American Blues Theater [2017]
Belligerency
7 actors
A play about war, and loss. [in progress]
Development:
Ars Nova Play Group [2022]
