Hansol Jung is a playwright and director. Her plays include Last Call (En Garde Arts), Merry Me (NYTW), Wolf Play (Soho Rep & Ma-Yi), Wild Goose Dreams (Public Theater & La Jolla), Romeo and Juliet (NAATCO & Two River), Cardboard Piano (Humana Festival), Among the Dead (Ma-Yi), and No More Sad Things (Boise Contemporary). Her writing for television and film includes work on Pachinko (Apple+) and Tales of the City (Netflix) in addition to development with Amazon Studios and Apple+ TV.
Jung is the recipient of the Lucille Lortel award for Best Play, an Obie Award, Herb Alpert Award, Steinberg Award, Whiting Award, Helen Merrill Award, Hodder Fellowship, Page 73 Fellowship, Lark’s Rita Goldberg Fellowship, a New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellowship, three MacDowell Fellowships, and an International Playwrights Residency at Royal Court. She is a proud member of New York Theatre Workshop's Usual Suspects, the Kilroys, and is a founding member of The Pack. She earned her M.F.A. from Yale.
At MacDowell in 2014, Jung worked on Wild Goose Dreams, a play about a love story between a North Korean defector and a South Korean goose father. In 2019, she wrote the first draft of Merry Me, a commission for The Public Theatre in New York.
