writing is live
golf girl
by Seayoung Yim '22 MFA
Directed by Carol Ann Tan ’23 MFA
Wednesday, April 27, 8PM
Thursday, April 28, 8PM
Friday, April 29, 8PM
Saturday, April 30, 4PM
Sunday, May 1, 8PM
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Blackwolf Run Golf Course, Wisconsin. Rising star Golf Girl is retracing the path of legendary golfer Park SeRi’s historic 1998 US Women’s Open win. Golf Girl and her dedicated father, Golf Dad, have toiled their whole lives for this moment—the chance to win a career-making championship. But when bizarre encounters and grotesque phenomena frustrate her efforts at each hole, Golf Girl begins to wonder what her life might be like just beyond the green.
Seayoung Yim (SHEE young) is a playwright and educator from Seattle. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Playwriting at Brown University, ’22.5, where she is a recipient of the Stephen Sondheim Graduate Fellowship in Theater Arts. She is a 2021 Playwriting Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and a playwright for the New Now Commission.. Her play Jar of Fat won second place for the Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award at The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). At Cafe Nordo, her play, Persimmon Nights, enjoyed a sold-out run in July 2018. Her first full-length play, Do It For Umma, was directed by Sara Porkalob premiering at Annex Theatre in 2016 to sold-out audiences, winning both the People’s Choice Award for Outstanding New Play at Theater Puget Sound’s Gregory Awards and Seattle’s Gypsy Rose Lee Award for Excellence in Local Playwriting. Her plays have been produced by Seattle Public Theater’s Education Program, The Horse in Motion, Theatre Battery, Pony World Theatre, Mirror Stage, Live Girls! Theater, UW School of Drama, The 14/48 Projects, SIS Productions, Theater Off Jackson, and the Seattle Fringe Festival. www.seayoungyim.com
Carol Ann Tan (Cat) (any) is a Singapore-born director, writer, and dramaturg. Past directing credits include Constellations, Much Ado About Nothing, A View From the Bridge (Brown/Trinity), Warrior Class (The Comrades), Domestic Departure (Haven Theatre), Apartment Complex, Domestic Departure (University of Chicago), as well as staged readings of Bakkhai (Brown/Trinity), The Mark (Babes With Blades), Mine & Yours (Artemisia Theatre), Dialogue and Rebuttal (Silk Road Rising), Natural Shocks (The Comrades), and Fresh Out the Closet (Asian Improv aRts Midwest). Cat has assisted John Gawlik on Doubt (The Gift Theatre), Dexter Bullard on Mies Julie (Victory Gardens), and Elly Green on You for Me for You (Sideshow Theatre). As a writer, Cat's plays include Trump Card, Apartment Complex, and Domestic Departure. Cat’s plays have been performed at Haven Theatre, Other Theatre, Brown/Trinity, North Central College, and the University of Chicago. Domestic Departure was awarded second place for the Olga and Paul Menn Foundation Prize. As a dramaturg, Cat has worked with Writers Theatre, Silk Road Rising, TimeLine Theatre, Sideshow Theatre, First Floor Theater, The Comrades, SoloChicago Theatre, Three Cat Productions, and Genesis Theatrical Productions. Cat is an MFA Directing candidate at Brown/Trinity (expected 2023), an artistic associate with Silk Road Rising, and a 2017/18 Directors Inclusion Initiate at Victory Gardens. carolanntan.com
