Director: Tae-Heum Yeon
Asst. Director: Juan Felipe Barrera Lopez
Intimacy/Fight Coordinator: Courtney Abbott
Korean Dance Choreographers: Ae Deok Lee, Ju Yeun Chase
Assoc. Choreographer/Dance Captain: Amanda de La Fuente
Scenic Designer: Alayna Klein
Lighting Designer: Sierra Walker
Asst. Lighting Designer: Sam Bessler
Costume Designer: Gin Ko
Wig Coordinator: Finty Critchley
Sound Designer: Stefanie Senior
Composers: Catherine Phang, Mya Vandegrift
Dramaturg: Suzie Elnaggar
Cultural Consultants: Jihye Kim, Alice Heemang Kim
Voice/Text Coach: Linda Gates
Stage Manager: Zoe Davis
Asst. Stage Manager: Ellie Dillenburg
Asst. Director: Juan Felipe Barrera Lopez
Intimacy/Fight Coordinator: Courtney Abbott
Korean Dance Choreographers: Ae Deok Lee, Ju Yeun Chase
Assoc. Choreographer/Dance Captain: Amanda de La Fuente
Scenic Designer: Alayna Klein
Lighting Designer: Sierra Walker
Asst. Lighting Designer: Sam Bessler
Costume Designer: Gin Ko
Wig Coordinator: Finty Critchley
Sound Designer: Stefanie Senior
Composers: Catherine Phang, Mya Vandegrift
Dramaturg: Suzie Elnaggar
Cultural Consultants: Jihye Kim, Alice Heemang Kim
Voice/Text Coach: Linda Gates
Stage Manager: Zoe Davis
Asst. Stage Manager: Ellie Dillenburg
Photography: Justin Barbin
PROCESS
- Designed lobby and participation (guidance from Dramaturg Suzi Elnaggar)
- Created display video & personal essay.
- Spoke in talkback about shaman adaptation choices.
- Consulted with actors and prop details.
Lobby with looping display.
Closeup of Jesa (ancestral ritual) table.
Poster and paper flowers below for guests to remember the dead.
Board by Dramaturg Suzi Elnaggar about Jogakbo (traditional patchwork technique)
LOBBY CONCEPT
A participatory installation to create space for silenced victims of political violence in Korea.
Our production of Antigone centered shaman ritual practice as resistance to government suppression of mourning.
We set an ancestral memorial table for the Jesa ritual, with food offerings (Sangsik) to feed the spirits.
Jeju 4.3 victims have had proper ritual stolen from them.
We invited guests to reflect on their own ghosts as they put up Jihwa (Buddhist and Shaman paper flowers).
VIDEO
My perspective on how the suppression of mourning in Antigone mirrors the silencing of Jeju 4.3 Massacre victims.
I am from Jeju Island. When reading the play, I could only think of how Jeju 4.3 survivors had to secretly mourn their loved ones.
(Edited in Premiere Pro, with some sections composited in After Effects.)
CONCEPT AND PARTICIPATION PITCHES/RESEARCH