Walter Byongsok Chon

Walter Byongsok Chon is a dramaturg, critic, translator, educator, and scholar from South Korea. He is an Associate Professor of Dramaturgy at Ithaca College in the US and is currently a Visiting Professor at the Korean National University of Arts. His work has been played at the Yale Repertory Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, and the New York Musical Festival. He is the co-author of Dramaturgy: The Basics (Routledge, 2023, with Anne M. Hamilton). He received the 2022 Daesan Foundation Translation Grant and received his D.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama.

This project in collaboration with Anne Hamilton is an English Theatrical Translation of Korean Plays by Myung-Wha Kim - Walter Byongsok Chon will translate four plays (THE WIND’S DESIRE, THE BIRDS DON’T CROSS THE CROSSWALK, OEDIPUS: THE FATE OF THE STORY, and THE SOUND OF THE MOON). Anne Hamilton is the English translation consultant. The English translations of Ms. Kim's plays across several genres explore Korean history, culture, and sentiments, enhancing intercultural theatrical exchange.