STAGE FOUR tells the story of Young Jun, a Korean-American artist in addiction recovery, who learns his estranged father is dying of cancer. Drawn back into the family he has struggled to reconcile with, Young Jun must confront the wounds of the past, the weight of family obligation, and the possibility of forgiveness.
SNEAK PEAK
Join us for an online reading of STAGE FOUR, written and directed by Kyoung H. Park, featuring Ali Ahn, Jin Ha, Jiho Kang and Hoon Lee.
The reading will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Dr. Esther Kim Lee, Chair of Theater at Duke University.
Monday, Nov. 16th
6:30pm-9:30pm EST
via Zoom
Suggested Donation: $15
STAGE FOUR CAST
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Ali Ahn made her Broadway debut in The Heidi Chronicles (Music Box Theatre) opposite Elisabeth Moss. She starred off-Broadway in Rajiv Joseph’s Letters of Suresh (Tony Kiser Theater). In television, Ahn played recurring characters in series such as Billions (Showtime) and Orange Is the New Black (Netflix). Currently, Ahn plays Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) station chief Eidra Park in The Diplomat (Netflix) and recently starred as Alice Wu-Gulliver in Agatha All Along (Marvel/Disney+).
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Stage credits include Hamilton (Richard Rodgers), Here We Are (The Shed), A Little Night Music (Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center), Road Show (City Center Encores! Off-Center), M. Butterfly (Cort Theatre), and the Broadway revival of Proof (Booth Theatre). Ha can be seen onscreen in Sugar (Apple TV), Only Murders in the Building (Hulu), Poker Face (Peacock), Civil War (A24), Love Life (HBO Max), DEVS (FX), Jesus Christ Superstar: Live in Concert (NBC), and Pachinko (Apple TV). In addition to co-producing Kogonada’s Sundance Festival selected film zi (2026), Jin has executive produced the independent feature film Flying Lessons (2023) and the Sundance Film Festival selected short Goodnight (2025). Education: Columbia University, B.A. East Asian Languages & Cultures; NYU Tisch, M.F.A. Graduate Acting. @blacktransliberation
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Jiho Kang is excited to be a part of this reading of Stage Four. Jiho is an actor and singer based in New York and Los Angeles. Broadway: Lex for KPOP (Circle in the Square). TV/Film: HBO, Netflix, Apple TV.
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Hoon Lee is an award-winning stage and screen actor. He was most recently seen as Lee in the Netflix limited series East of Eden and Barney in the hit show Your Friends & Neighbors on Apple TV+. His other various film and television credits include Cinemax’s critically-acclaimed Banshee; Season 2 of the Apple TV+ series See; the Max limited series DMZ; and Cinemax’s martial arts crime drama Warrior, where he also served as a writer.
Hoon provided the voice of White Rabbit for Netflix’s Devil May Cry, Jade Emperor / Monk in the Netflix film The Monkey King, Master Splinter in Nickelodeon’s 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, and later Shredder, in Nickelodeon’s Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.
Hoon has appeared on Broadway in Flower Drum Song, Urinetown, Pacific Overtures and the Lincoln Center production of The King and I, where he played the King of Siam. Off-Broadway and regional credits include The Winter’s Tale at Yale Rep, Hamlet and Love’s Labor’s Lost at The Public Theatre, David Ives’ School for Lies, Terrence McNally’s Golden Age, and David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face, where he originated the role of DHH, and received a Theatre World Award and Drama League nomination. He is a graduate of Harvard University and lives in Charlotte, NC.
Q&A PARTICIPANTS
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Dr. Esther Kim Lee is an award-winning author and theatre historian. She is Frances Hill Fox Professor of Theater Studies, International Comparative Studies, and History and the Chair of Theater Studies at Duke University. Dr. Lee teaches and writes about theatre history, Asian American theatre, Korean diaspora theatre, and globalization and theatre. In 2023, she received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Society for Theatre Research.
Dr. Lee’s books include A History of Asian American Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2006), The Theatre of David Henry Hwang (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015), Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas (Duke University Press, 2012), Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era (University of Michigan Press, 2022) and Modern and Contemporary World Drama: Critical and Primary Sources (Methuen Bloomsbury, 2022).
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Kyoung H. Park is a North Korean playwright/director, born and raised in Santiago, Chile, currently living in Brooklyn. He is the author of Sex and Hunger (Access Theater, 2005), Walkabout Yeolha (Columbia Stages, 2010), disOriented (Peter Jay Sharp Theater on 42nd Street, 2011), TALA (Performance Project @ University Settlement, 2015), PILLOWTALK (The Tank, 2018), NERO (Kyoung’s Pacific Beat™, 2024) and MINA (Vital Theater, 2004), which is published in Seven Contemporary Plays from the Korean Diaspora in the Americas by Duke University Press, an anthology edited by Esther Kim Lee.