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The Gwangju Performance Project


Fueled by coffee, unfounded optimism, and the vigor of youth, we are an amateur, non-profit theatre team that intends to tap into all the vibrant creativity which already exists in the Gwangju English community. 

The brainchild of Director Jo Park, this new and ambitious English performance group was dreamt up sometime in 2010, but really got moving in early 2011. Travis Major came on as Assistant Director, and a first script was chosen: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, by Steve Martin. Soon after,  other artists, friends, and random hobos showed up to offer their hard work and support. In the end, the project was assisted by so many generous individuals that it would be nearly impossible to credit them all. It might be more fair to say that this show was produced by the Gwangju foreigner community as a whole. 
 

While still mourning Jo Park's unfortunate migration to America, we have recently been graced with a new director: the lovely, talented, and feisty Amanda Koons. In order to keep up with her very high level of awesome, our group is becoming more organized and powerful by the day; We cannot be stopped!
Thanks to everyone who came out to see our second production: The Real Inspector Hound. It was a roaring success, and we all had a blast. 

Our third production will be a Night of One-Acts Plays, written by David Ives. We are currently in rehearsal, and the show will go up May 5th and 6th, 2012, at our usual theatre downtown. For tickets, send us a message!

There also be a spring production of The Vagina Monologues, produced and directed by the one-and-only Leigh Hellman, going up April 28th and 29th, at the Kunsthalle art center.  This famous collection of monologues about love, sex, and identity tears down conventional taboos and gets us talking about the thing we all have in common, but each play with and bend in our own ways: gender. 

Going forward, there will be more shows. We intend for the Gwangju Performance Project to become a lasting fixture of the Gwangju artistic community. If you have any interest in theatre, even if you have no experience at all, please message us. The great thing about theatre is that, no matter what your skill set, there is always a job for you.