Bio.

Yunhye Park is a playwright/lyricist/dramaturg who was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea and resides in New York City. She holds a BA in Theatre Studies and a MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from Korea National University of Arts and an MFA in the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program from NYU Tisch. 

Her original musical Tomorrow, by the Sea received the 2024 Kennedy Center Musical Theatre Award, second place for the 2024 Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award, was a finalist for the 2023 Live & in Color Musical Theatre Development Program, a semi-finalist for the 2024 Pipeline Arts Organization Award, and semi-finalist for 2023/24 AMTP. She has written numerous works for the stage, including Woyzeck in the Dark (with Soohyeon Her; performed at Link Arts Center in 2023), Blue-gray Night (with Jinha Kim; performed at Dream Arts Center in 2022), La Resistenza (with Jiseon Lee; performed at Gimpo Art Hall in 2022), and Tomorrow, by the Sea (Performed in 2018, 2021, 2022). Her works have been developed at Arts Council Korea, Korea Creative Content Agency, CJ Cultural Foundation, and Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture. She received the 2019 ARKO Selection New Musical Play Prize for her original musical Trinity. She’s also the recipient of 21st New Play Festival Prize and Glocal Musical Live Fellowship in Korea.