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AMONG THE DEAD
A riveting time warp from acclaimed playwright Hansol Jung, directed by Artistic Director Kaiser Ahmed
Among the Dead is a dark comedy about a family broken apart by betrayed promises, and finding each other again through SPAM, journals, and Jesus. Mostly Jesus.
Ana is a Korean American who travels to Seoul in 1975 to retrieve her recently deceased father’s ashes. Luke is a young American soldier fighting in the jungles of Myanmar in 1944. Number Four is the name of a Korean comfort woman camping out on a bridge in Seoul in 1950, waiting for the return of the young American soldier who fathered her daughter. Three separate time periods collide in a small hotel room in Korea, mediated by a shape-shifting Jesus who first shows up as a bellboy.
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Event Info:
$15-$35
VENUE: Broadway Armory Park
5917 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60660
RUN-TIME: 70 min.
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Important Dates:
November 4th – December 11th, 2022
First Preview - 11/04/2022
Opening - 11/10/2022
LiveCaptioning/Audio Description - 11/20/2022
Closing - 12/11/2022
UNDERSTUDIES: Emily Zhang (Number Four), Spencer Althoff (Luke), Tina-Kim Nguyen (Ana), Rio Ragazzone (Jesus)
The Cast
Jin Park as NUMBER FOUR, Sam Boeck as LUKE, Malia Hu as ANA, and Colin Huerta as JESUS
The Team
PLAYWRIGHT – Hansol Jung
Hansol Jung is a playwright from South Korea. Productions include Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse), Wolf Play (NNPN Rolling Premiere: Artists Rep, Mixed Blood, Company One), Cardboard Piano (Humana Festival at ATL), Among the Dead (Ma-Yi Theatre), and No More Sad Things (Sideshow, Boise Contemporary). Commissions from 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, Whiting Award, Helen Merrill Award, Page 73 Fellowship, Lark’s Rita Goldberg Fellowship, NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship, MacDowell Artist Residency, and International Playwrights Residency at Royal Court. She is a proud member of the Ma-Yi Writers Lab, NYTW’s Usual Suspects, and The New Class of Kilroys. MFA: Yale.
DIRECTOR – Kaiser Ahmed*
Kaiser was the Founding Artistic Director of Jackalope Theatre Company from 2008-2012 and continued to lead as the Associate Artistic Director through 2019. He resumed serving as Artistic Director beginning 2020. Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and raised in mid-Michigan, Kaiser was recently named on NewCity’s “Players 2019: Fifty People Who Really Perform For Chicago”. At Jackalope, Kaiser directed Fast Company, 1980 (or Why I'm Voting for John Anderson), and many others. Chicago credits also include Passage (Remy Bumppo), the Midwest Premiere of The Late Henry Moss (The Artistic Home), Language Rooms (Broken Nose Theatre), Washer/Dryer and VANYA (or That's Life!) (Rasaka Theatre). Regional credits include the World Premiere of Stoo's Famous Martian-American Gumbo, an interactive and touring TYA play commissioned by Peppercorn Theatre in Winston-Salem, NC. Kaiser is a 2015-16 Eugene O’Neill National Directors Fellowship Finalist, a 2016-17 Victory Gardens Directors Inclusion Initiative recipient, and an Associate Member of SDC. Kaiser holds a BA in Theatre Directing from Columbia College Chicago. http://kaiserahmed.org
PRODUCTION TEAM –
STAGE MANAGER
Anna Brockway
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Monét Felton*
DRAMATURG
Isabelle Cheng
ASSISTANT
STAGE MANAGER
Josh Derby
SCENIC, PROPS &
FURNITURE DESIGNER
Paloma L.
PROPS ARTISAN
Persephone Lawrence
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Samuel Stephen
COSTUME DESIGNER
Isaac Jay Pineda
ORIGINAL MUSIC
& SOUND DESIGNER
Michael Huey
FIGHT & INTIMACY
COORDINATOR
Sheryl Williams
KOREAN LANGUAGE
CONSULTING
Alice Soyoun Park
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Kyle McDermott
CASTING DIRECTOR
Catherine Miller*
MASTER ELECTRICIAN
Quinn Chisenhall
CARPENTERS
Andrew Burden-
Swanson*, Joshua Derby,
Danny Halminiak
PROGRAM
DESIGNER
Michelle Maurer
POSTER
PHOTOGRAPHY
Joel Maisonet
TITLE ART
Jake Fruend
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