Haunting and Healing

Cast

Daniel K. Isaac is a queer Korean American actor and writer based in New York City. His other plays include THE HOPE PROJECT, QUIET LOVE (commissioned by Ma-Yi, co-written with John McGinty), FULLERTON (2020 O’Neill Finalist), [untitled gay sex and conversion therapy play] (commissioned by Ma-Yi with generous support from the NEA), and OR OR OR &&& (available as a podcast recording on The Parsnip Ship). TV: "According To My Mother" (in development with FX & Searchlight Pictures). Daniel’s work has been championed by Ma-Yi Theater, Barrington Stage, NYTW, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Page73’s Interstate73, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood, Queens Theatre, The Tank, TheatreC, Leviathan Lab, and Lambda Literary. Training: UCSD, BADA. www.DanielKIsaac.com

Diana Oh (they/she/punk goddex) is a multi-genre artist: creator of performance, installations, concerts, rituals, and parties, director of their own work, performer, actor, singer, songwriter, musician, a feeder of the soul, and an open channel to the art that feels good to their body. As a Refinery29 Top LGBTQ Influencer and the First Queer Korean-American interviewed on Korean Broadcast Radio, Oh is the Creator of The Infinite Love Party (an intentional, barefoot, potluck dinner, dance party, and sleepover for QTPOC and their Allies) which the New York Times calls “the joyous freedom to be yourself, whatever pronouns you use;” {my lingerie play} with touring national installations and concert staged in an effort to provide a safer, more courageous world for women, queer, trans, and non-binary humans to live in; CLAIRVOYANCE (an installation and concert series in Harvard Yard, the Boston Public Library, Institute of Contemporary Art, Harvard Arboretum and A.R.T.); 24 Hour Punk, Asian People Are Not Magicians (mic.com); and My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre (developed in 2017-2019 with The Public's EWG). TV/FILM: Queering, How to Be Single, NY is Dead (Tribeca Film Fest), Hey Yun (feat. on Janet Mock), Unicornland. Fellowships: Helen Merrill Award, Art Equity Grant recipient, TOW Fellow (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Van Lier Fellow in Acting (Asian American Arts Alliance), Venturous Capital Fellow, Sundance Institute Fellow, member of Ma-Yi Writers Group, writer/performer with The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit and previous member of EWG, Williamstown Theatre Festival Artist-in-Residence. Oh tours with their art in unexpected spaces and enjoys not fitting into boxes. www.dianaoh.co

Jon Norman Schneider (he/him) is thrilled to be back at Long Wharf Theatre after last appearing in Julia Cho’s Durango in 2006. Earlier this year, he played the Fool in Northern Stage’s production of King Lear. Select New York credits include the title role in Henry VI (NAATCO), Awake and Sing! (NAATCO/The Public), Lunch Bunch (Clubbed Thumb), The Oldest Boy (Lincoln Center), Queens Boulevard (the musical) (Signature), Durango (The Public), A Map of Virtue (13P), among others. London: Paper Dolls (Tricycle). Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Barrington Stage Co., Dorset Theatre Festival, Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre Co., Kennedy Center, Magic Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Mosaic Theatre Co. of DC, and The Old Globe. Film: Bitter Melon, Manila Is Full of Men Named Boy, The Normals, and HBO’s Angel Rodriguez. TV: “Succession,” “Jessica Jones,” “Veep,” “30 Rock,” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”

James Seol: Theatre: Half the Sky (5th Avenue Theatre); The Great Leap (Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Joseph Jefferson Award Nomination); Henry VI (National Asian-American Theatre Company); American Morning (Prospect Theater Company); KPOP (Ars Nova/Ma-Yi/Woodshed Collective, Lucille Lortel Award Nomination); Small Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova); Vietgone, The Orphan of Zhao (American Conservatory Theatre); The Four Immigrants, Tokyo Fish Story (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley); Thoroughly Modern Millie (Goodspeed Musicals and Paper Mill Playhouse); Zombie: the American (Woolly Mammoth); Hamlet (Hartford Stage); A Naked Girl on the Appian Way (Roundabout Theatre Company); Timon of Athens (Shakespeare Theatre Company). TV: The Flight Attendant (HBO Max); Living with Yourself (Netflix); Insomnia (Webseries). Juilliard and the University of Virginia. IG: @jamesseol   

David Shih: Previously with Ma-Yi: KPOP (Lortel Award: Outstanding Musical) and Bike America. Other theater: The Great Wave (Berkeley Rep), Henry VI: Shakespeare’s Trilogy in Two Parts (Drama Desk Nomination: Best Revival) and Awake and Sing! (NAATCO), Somebody's Daughter (Second Stage), Tiger Style! (La Jolla Playhouse), Crane Story (The Playwrights Realm). Television: “Hunters,” “Billions,” “City on a Hill,” “Iron Fist,” “The Path,” “Blindspot,” “Elementary,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Blacklist,” “L&O:SVU.” Film: Mr. Sushi, Eighth Grade, All the Little Things We Kill, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Saving Face. Audiobooks: AudioFile Earphones Award winners 47 Ronin and Ghosts of Gold Mountain. 

Shannon Tyo (she/her): Off-Broadway: The Chinese Lady, Kentucky, Bikeman, Dear Edwina. Select regional: The Good Book (Berkeley Rep), Fun Home (Baltimore Center Stage), Smart People (Geva Theatre Center), Bright Half Life (Kitchen Theatre Co.), Broadway Bounty Hunter (Barrington Stage), The White Snake (The Old Globe), Miss Saigon (Pioneer Theatre Co., Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Music Theatre Wichita), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Northern Stage, Tuacahn Center, Pioneer Theatre Co.). TV: “30 Rock,” “Rediscovering Christmas” (Lifetime), “The Last O.G.” BFA, Syracuse University.

Jeena Yi is a proud Korean American born and raised in Los Angeles and currently based in New York City.  Her favorite korean folktale is “The Man with the Lump” because it's about being kind and above all, DON'T BE A GREEDY ASSHOLE. For more professional information, visit www.jeenayi.com

Production Team

Lighting Design                  Cha See
Projection Design               Yee Eun Nam
Sound Design                      Melanie Chen
Director of Photography     Isabella Tan and Shane Lian
Editing                                 Zack Lobel
Stage Manager                    Alex Kesner
Studio Manager                   Giles Indic
Studio Assistant                  Gabe Disic
Executive Producer             Jorge Z. Ortoll
Producer                              Sarah Hanlon
Graphics / Poster                Jesse Jae Hoon Eisenberg

Panelists

Ashley Ahmad is a 2020 NYU graduate from Global Liberal Studies with a concentration in Politics, Rights and Development. Throughout her undergraduate career, she studied and researched international human rights, law and global politics. Her specialty areas included human rights crises and genocides, such as the Rohingya Refugee Crisis and the Bangladesh Genocide. Her senior thesis focused on the erasure, memory manipulation, and politics of the Bangladesh Genocide. Currently, Ashley is an Operations Associate at a research startup and is interested in pursuing law school. 

Joyce Apsel is a Clinical Professor at NYU Liberal Studies and President of the Institute for the Study of Genocide. She teaches on human rights, humanitarianism and has directed or been second reader on GLS senior theses related to today’s subject, such as co-panelist GLS graduate Ashley Ahmed’s thesis on Mass Rape in Bangladesh; and on themes of Partition, Diaspora, Nationalism, War, and the Politics of Memory. Publications include Introducing Peace Museums, nominated for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in non-fiction; co-editor of Museums and Sites of Persuasion: Politics, Memory and Human Rights, and  Genocide Matters: Ongoing Issues and Challenges.

Grace M. Cho is the author of Tastes Like War (Feminist Press, 2021) and Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy and the Forgotten War (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), which received a 2010 book award from the American Sociological Association. Her writings have appeared in journals such as the New Inquiry, Poem Memoir Story, Contexts, Gastronomica, WSQ, Qualitative Inquiry, and Women and Performance. She is associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.

Linda Luu is a PhD student in American Studies in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at NYU. Linda’s research looks at the shifting relationships between U.S. psychology, militarism, and liberal humanism in the period of the Cold War, focusing on how ideas regarding Asian/American psyches figured into U.S. empire-building. Linda received their BA in Sociology from Hunter College.

Lara Sheehi (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at the George Washington University Professional Psychology program. She works on decolonial struggles as well as power, race, class and gender constructs and dynamics within Psychoanalysis. Lara is the Secretary of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Society and is the chair of the Teachers Academy of the American Psychoanalytic Association. She is co-editor of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and Counterspace in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Lara is on the advisory board to the USA-Palestine Mental Health Network and Psychoanalysis for Pride, and a member of the Taskforce for Indigenous Psychology. Lara is co-author with Stephen Sheehi of the forthcoming book Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practice Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, September 2021).

Moderator: Dr. Chandani Patel is Director for Global Diversity Education within the Office of Global Inclusion at NYU. Chandani focuses particularly on creating inclusive teaching and learning environments and is committed to advancing a more equitable higher education landscape. She also serves as the co-chair for the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA)'s Academic Council. Chandani holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, with a particular focus on South Asian and African literatures, from the University of Chicago as well as a B.A. in Comparative Literature and an M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought from NYU.