MY RESUME


Gyunhyeong Kim

Palisades Park, NJ07650
718-844-8608 ∙ gyunhyeong.kim@gmail.com
https://myusjourney.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Play Director, Artistic Director & Professor
with 16 years of experience in play and musical play. Extensive experience in directing, script writing, teaching, and publishing. Directed 21 shows, focusing on the decomposition and reconstruction of the play, and wrote 9 play or musical play scripts, as well as 12 books and 35 papers. Expertise teaching acting based on easy physical training and singing (my own method). Fluent in English, Korean and French.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Founder / Artistic Director / Director                                 10/2000 – 05/2015
UP Theater, Gwangju, Korea                                   
Theater company with 15 experts in theatre production
  • Founded the theater company, having successfully fundraised from Honam University and other supporters
  • As Artistic Director, directed the company with its focus on creating new shows
  • Sought new playwrights to give them a chance to see their plays performed
  • As Director, collaborated with actors to produce new plays and/or to choose appropriate ones among existing scripts to perform
  • Directed 1 – 2 shows per year through a process of collective creating, a method I invented and developed to create new shows by writing a script with the participation of all the actors
  • Worked with old students (graduates) who came back for further training
  • Collaborated with different K-12 schools to send company members as teachers to help prepare and produce school shows 

Adjunct Professor                                                               03/1997 – 02/2012
Honam University, Gwangju, Korea                                 
University with 8,000 students and about 300 professors.
  • Taught 9 hours per week on acting, directing, theater production, theater history, theater theory and culture
  • Taught acting for classes of 20 or fewer freshman; instructed students in simple physical training to facilitate the expression of feelings and in singing songs to exercise the voice, pronunciation and breath and to strengthen the expression of actors’ inner thoughts and feelings
  • Taught directing for classes of 10 junior students, focusing on visual and audible elements and using expression techniques such as mime, song, dance, martial arts, and rituals, as well as inserting figurative and/or symbolic scenes
  • Directed one show in workshop class with about 30 students selected by audition, leading them to create one new show per semester
  • Directed existing repertories, including plays by William Shakespeare and in American Realism, European Symbolism and Korean traditions
  • Directed students’ performances for them to take part in contests, and won prizes including the newly-created musical prize and new music prize
  • Worked with various organizations like Gwangju City and the National Park Corporation to produce new shows for special occasions such as citizen’s day, the campaign for the protection of the environment, etc.
  • Advised students on future careers in all areas of theater


EDUCATION
Ph. D. in Theater                                                                   09/1990 – 10/1995
Université de Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Paris, France
            ·   Conducted research on 20th century theatre directors such as Constantin 
           Stanislavski, Bertolt Brecht, Jean Vilar, Luca Ronconi, Ariane Mnouchkine, 
           Jerzy Grotowski, Living theatre, Eugene Barba, and Peter Brook
            ·   Dissertation: “The Actor-Audience Relationship in the 20th Century”

Master’s Degree in Theater                                                 09/1988 – 06/1990
Université de Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, Paris, France
             ·  Conducted research on the question of acting in Constantin Stanislavski and Jerzy 
           Grotowski
            ·  Thesis: “The Question of Acting in Constantin Stanislavski and Jerzy Grotowski”
                                                                       
B.A in Theatre                                                                       03/1982 – 02/1988
Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea                                                                


PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
  • Korea Theater Association, Korea Theater Education Association, Performance-Culture Association, member since 2000
  • Korea Theatre Education Association’s Editorial Board, member since 2009
  • French Research Association, French Culture Association, member since 2005


PROFESSIONAL WORKS IN THE U.S.
  • "Bravo my life", Director and playwright (collective writing), Chain Theatre in Manhattan, June 2023 and some more 


SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS IN KOREA
Papers (a total of 35)
·   “Research on Images to Compose Scenes in French Musical ‘Notre-Dame de Paris’”, French Studies, Vol. 54, 2010
·    “Peter Brook’s ‘Bouffes du Nord,’” French Culture Studies, Vol.13, 2006
·   “Research on Basic Acting Training: Focused on Unconsciousness and Correlation,” Collection of Dissertations, Vol.23, No. 2, 2002

Books (a total of 12)
·   Making Theater Using 42 Questions, Somyong Publishing Co., 09/2010
·   One Hundred and Thirty-Two Ways of Acting Practice, Yeni Publishing Co., 12/1996

Scripts (a total of 9 in three books)
·    “Sakedai (5 reasons for breaking up),” Somyong Publishing Co., 12/2015
·    “They are still running”, Somyong Publishing Co., 12/2015
·    “Tomorrow”, Somyong Publishing Co., 03/2015

Plays (a total of 23)
·    “Even though life cheats you,” Author/Director, UP Theater, 10/2014
·    “Love coming silently” (musical), Author/Director, UP Theater, 04/2009
·     “A Cat on the Hot Tin Roof,” by Tennessee Williams, Director, UP Theater, 11/2007

A full list of publications is available upon request.

If you want to see my whole work in Korea, https://youngkiminkorea.blogspot.com/p/my-whole-work.html 
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