- A Writer Director Lab Presentation
(there is no day or night in space)
Chloe Chow & Jisoo Hope Yoon
Writer Director Lab 2024-2025
September 24 - September 25
A presentation of Chloe Chow & Jisoo Hope Yoon‘s (there is no day or night in space), the piece they’ve developed over the last year as a part of the 2024-2025 Writer Director Lab.
Three siblings disagree about a memory of their late mother. They settle the argument in the most literal way possible: by boarding a train faster than the speed of light, which will allow them to catch up to the memory in outer space. Onions are cut, TSA rules are broken, theoretically impossible encounters unfold.Â
Creators
Chloe Chow
Chloe Chow is a pluralistic Asian American performance and multimedia artist consistently inspired by family archives, folklore and ritual, food heritage, and her grandmother. She seeks to generate immersive performance art powered by memory and challenges the definition of theater through site specificity, digital media, and deconstruction of space. In addition to independent work, past collaborations have included Pan Asian Repertory Theater, Ma-Yi Theater, Planet Earth Arts Festival, and the Humana Festival of New American Plays. Chloe was the Artistic Director of the Stanford Asian American Theatre Project and will be a member of the Leon Levy Foundation Roundabout Directors Group Cohort 7. Chloe holds a B.A. in Theater and M.A. in Multimedia Journalism from Stanford University. chloe-chow.com
Jisoo Hope Yoon
Jisoo Hope Yoon is a writer and translator from Seoul, working across fiction, theater, and video games. Her preoccupations include distance and departure, technocriticism, and lay understandings of physics. Her fiction has appeared in Columbia Journal, her film and TV translations on Netflix and Apple TV+, and her first poetry translations will be published in And So On (Workroom Press, 2025). Upcoming teaching engagements include the Strother School of Radical Attention (2025) and Tiny Spoon Magazine (2026), where she will lead workshops on video games and narrative agency. BA: Comparative Literature, Stanford University.
Sponsors + Partners
Thanks to the following friends for supporting the Writer Director Lab: Lawrence Sutton & Rick Titone and The Jerome Foundation.