Jesse Jae Hoon (윤재훈) is a playwright, organizer, and Korean adoptee raised in Chicago and Berlin and currently based in Queens. His play Titans premiered at Clubbed Thumb’s 2026 Summerworks. He is currently developing Saved, a two-part drama about the South Korean adoption industry. He has developed work with The Public Theater (as a member of the 2023-2025 Emerging Writers Group), New York Theatre Workshop, Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Rattlestick Theater (as a 2024 Terrence McNally New Works Incubator fellow), Ma-Yi Theater Company (as the 2022-2024 Creatives Rebuild New York resident playwright), The Civilians (R&D 2025-26), Yangtze Repertory Theatre (Project YZ 2026), The Playwrights Realm (2022-2023 Writing Fellow), Theater J, Studio Theatre, Egg & Spoon Theatre Collective, The Parsnip Ship, and more. He is under commission from Atlantic Theater Company and San Francisco Playhouse. He is the winner of the 2023 Ollie Award, a 2026/2024 MacDowell Fellow, and a 2025 Yaddo resident. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College, where he also previously taught undergraduate playwriting as adjunct professor.
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