Curriculum Vitae
Park Hyokyung
Park Hyokyung is a theatre critic, dramaturg, and researcher in the performing arts, based in Seoul. She is the resident dramaturg at Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre and a contributing writer for SAI Criticism, a web magazine of performing arts criticism. For fourteen years she has also run performances on site, contracted by producers and venues.
Current
Resident Dramaturg
Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre
Contributing Writer
SAI Criticism, a web magazine of performing arts criticism
Advisory Board Member
Theater-in, a web magazine published by Seoul Theater Center
Dramaturgy
Oh THe yELLOw ↗
Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre
Gulliverse 3 ↗
Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre
Player ID : Red Peter's Confession ↗
Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre
The Lover ↗
Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre
The House of Alba ↗
Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre
Horror Is Show ↗
Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre
Gulliverse 2 ↗
Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre
Performance Management
Sync Next 26
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts
Seoul Metropolitan Dance Theatre, Mugam Seogi
Sejong Center for the Performing Arts
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Ticketing and producing companies, Seoul
- Theatre
- Kyrie 2026, You Can't Make a Life Out of Not Getting Slapped in the Face 2025, Hamlet 2024, Vincent River 2022, Yeongeuk-yeoljeon Seasons 5–8 — Kill Me Now, Killology, The King's Speech, The Son, Mouthpiece, Lungs, and others
- Musical
- Rent 2023–24, Sisters 2023, Shinheung Military Academy 2019, All Shook Up 2016, JSA: Joint Security Area 2015, Hedwig and the Angry Inch 2014, Man of La Mancha 2012, and others
- Other
- Performing Arts Market in Seoul (PAMS) 2025–26, Seoul Performing Arts Festival (SPAF) 2024–26, concerts and festivals
Selected Writing
Titles are translated; the pieces are published in Korean.
A Drawing Erased and Redrawn Countless Times ↗
On Vibrato's That Night and Its Friends
The Form of a Boundary, an Explanation That Closes the Question ↗
On Doosan Humanities Theater's More Life
Train 999 Has Not Arrived Yet ↗
On Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre's Player ID : Red Peter's Confession
We Need More Stories of Failure ↗
On CONTCONN's Acrobat Training
On Naming and Being Named ↗
On MBZ Company's Bbangya
A Record of a Body Thrown Clear of the Gears ↗
On Gongzone's Hyunjung, Sunk in the Mudflat
Short reviews, 26 pieces ↗
Written on productions seen through 2026
Shifting the Question of Sustainable Theatre: Seongbukdong Beedoolkee Theatre's Empty Stage and Climate Justice
Award & Education
Outstanding Critic, Theatre & Musical
Emerging Critics Program, Arts Council Korea
MA, Performing Arts Studies
Thesis A Proposal on the Ontology of Theater ↗
Interdisciplinary Program, College of Humanities, Seoul National University