Jesse Jae Hoon is a playwright, organizer, and actor. His plays include Somebody Is Looking Back at Me, I've Got A Sinking Feeling in The Pit of My Stomach, Dong Xuan Center, Emergency Wine & Cheese Fundraiser of The Amagansett Democrats' Association, and On the Clock.
Jae Hoon is the current CRNY resident artist at Ma-Yi Theater Company, was a 2022-23 writing Fellow at The Playwrights Realm, a 2023 Radio Roots Fellow at The Parsnip Ship, and a member of the Orchard Project's Adaptation Lab. He is a recipient of the Ollie New Play Award, and is a 2023-25 member of the Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group. He holds an M.F.A. in playwriting from CUNY Hunter College, where he also taught undergraduate playwriting.
At MacDowell, he rewrote two plays: Benedict Cumberbatch, Am I Irredeemable? – a Lehrstück (or Learning Play) and a riff on Bertolt Brecht's Der Jasager and Der Neinsager; and On the Clock – a stage adaptation of the nonfiction book by journalist Emily Guendelsberger, about the psychological torture of working-class people by large mega-corporations.
