JI WON JEON

Ji Won Jeon (she/her) is a Chicago-based theatre director from South Korea working internationally. She believes in the power of theatre and storytelling to jumpstart conversations that challenge and move us outside our comfort zones. She thinks that the stories we tell about ourselves are formative of who we become as individuals, community and society. Her work is therefore centered around the idea of bringing individual and collective cultural history that makes us who we are today and allows us to move forward. She holds B.A degree in Theatre and B.A Visual and Performing Arts Studies from University of Southern California and is currently in her final year of MFA in Directing program at Northwestern University. Most recently at Northwestern, she directed Peerless by Jiehae Park, and her other favorite directing credit includes Buried Child, Polaroid Stories, Armstrong’s Moon, Ubu Roi Project, The History Boys, No Exit, and Pillowman.