about

IN SHORT: I am a writer who likes to write – or think about writing – about physics (and its applications… like biology), feminism, colonialism, history, systematic inequality, and love (I try). I may also have a slight penchant for tragedy.

IN MORE DETAIL: I am a Korean-English bilingual woman writer for stage and screen, and I am interested exploring the gap between representation and the “thing” beneath the representation, be it race, gender, sex, social status, disability, or relationships. I am also interested in the relationship between medium and story, which means asking questions like what makes a play a play? or why does this story have to be a screenplay and not a stage play? etc.

My works have often been inspired by history or real-life events, as history itself is a kind of representation and full of interesting dichotomies, but at other times, I try to alleviate the pain of modern womanhood by writing (somewhat dark) comedies.

Thematically, I am currently interested in the machinations of socio-economic systems, identity and assimilation, and womanhood.

THE PROFESSIONAL STUFF:

HyoJeong Choi is from Seoul, Boston, and a few other places across the globe. She was an aspiring nuclear physicist until she realized she was spending more time in the theater than in her lab. Her play based on this experience, On Epistemological Problems in Atomic Physics, was selected for Rattlestick Theater’s inaugural Terrence McNally New Works Incubator program. She was selected as a playwriting scholar at Sewanee Writers Conference, and a semi-finalist for Playwrights Foundation Bay Area Playwrights Festival and O’Neill National Playwrights Conference among others. Her plays have been seen/developed at Rattlestick Theater, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Workshop Theater, Central Square Theater, Harvard, New Georges, and the Civilians. Her TV pilots have been finalists for the Dallas International Film Festival Screenplay Competition and Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Screenplay Competition and shortlisted for the Austin Film Festival and the Orchard Project. She has an MFA in dramatic writing from Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama.

IF YOU WANT EVEN MORE DETAIL, I’m honored. Here is my CV.