of hope

Jisoo Hope Yoon/윤지수 is a writer, translator, and theater-maker from Seoul, now based in Brooklyn. She has also worked in film/TV, video games, and the nonprofit sector.

Objects of interest, ranging from mild to abyssal: distance, departure, politics of translation, physics-poetics, p(doom), fracturing, deep sea, outer space, pathologies, contemporary Korea à la K-pop Demon Hunters, contemporary Korea à la depressed seven-year-olds, mirrors, anthropology of tech enthusiasm, apocalypse, public transit, video game writing, human attention, self-education, the parenthesis, the em dash, the backslash, ellipses, annotations, how to live my life???, feelings of unconquerable doom, feelings of unconquerable hope

Education

B.A. in Comparative Literature
Honors in the Arts
Stanford University (2024)

Employment

Narrative Writer
LINE Games
2024 - Present
Writing silly dialogue for Ember & Blade, a premium survivorslike game (featured on Steam Next Fest 2025). Also active in the NYC game dev community; have spoken at PlayNYC 2025.

Marketing Manager
DataB
2023-2024

Script Coordinator & Translator
Bound Entertainment
2021-2024
Worked on shows that streamed on Netflix, Apple TV+, and Coupang Play.

Research and Operations Intern
Cdot
2021

CSR Project Intern
YouthVoice
2020

And many odd worlds which go unmentioned on my professional CV: bartending at a Korean barbecue restaurant, teaching poetry and theater to chubby-cheeked children, translating erotic comics, handing out food samples at a convention...

Theater

BIPOC Critics Lab at the Public Theater (2025-)

Soho Rep Writer-Director Lab (2024-2025)

Co-Director: Man of God by Anna Moench, Nitery Experimental Theater (Stanford, 2024)

Assistant Director: next to normal by Brian Yorkey, Nitery Experimental Theater (Stanford, 2022)

Director: Among the Dead by Hansol Jung, Nitery Experimental Theater (Stanford, 2021)

Playwright: Breathless Stars, loosely adapted from On Stars Not Falling by Scott Shallenbarger, Koom Theater (Seoul, 2021)

Director & Co-producer: Wild Goose Dreams by Hansol Jung, Sungkyun Theater (Seoul, 2020)

Dramaturg: Everybody by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, Harry J. Elam Theater (Stanford, 2020)

Playwright: Light of the Blues, rEMOTION Play Festival (online, 2020)

Literary

그 밖에 (And So On) by 메아리조각 Workroom Press, 2025
Contributing translator
ask me about this project and I will speak lovingly of my friend Ha Mina

속삭임 우묵한 정원 (Whisper Sunken Garden) by Bae Suah
TBD
Co-Translator
ask me about this project and I will muddle into incoherent excitement

“Circulation Line”
Winner of Columbia Journal Fiction Contest, winner of Mary Steinbeck Dekker Award
ask me about this project and I will speak with pride

Seabreather
Novel-in-progress, awarded the Chappell-Lougee Grant
ask me about this project and I will sigh

Facilitation

Designing & Teaching GAMEWORLDS, a seminar with Strother School of Attention

Teaching INTRO TO GAME WRITING, a workshop with Tiny Spoon Magazine

Teaching Assistant for POETRY OUTSIDE with Uptown Stories (2025-)
Assisting a children’s poetry class in Fort Tyron Park

Last Updated 25.10.16.

WORK

there is no day or night in space (2025)

Soho Rep Writer-Director Lab
Presented at Sheen Center in collaboration with director Chloe Chow

A play about riding into space on a tachyon-train with your sisters to settle a disagreement about your dead mom. Was more interested in notions of agency and intra-action (as coined by Karen Barad) and the intersection between grief and scientific inquiry/futility than the characters populating the play, but surprisingly people saw themselves in it, and I was, of course of course, touched.

Attention Activism (2025-)

Creative research & facilitation around technology, attention, and agency. Activities with the Strother School of Attention include a seminar about games and agency, a sidewalk study about whale falls, and research on translating attention activism concepts across cultural/linguistic contexts.

Also running ‘WTF is going on with AI?’, a critical tech/AI book club over discord.

그 밖에 / And So On (2025)

Poetry Collection by 메아리조각
Published by Workroom Press
Contributing translator

Translated two poems by Ha Mina from Korean to English

“Circulation Line” (2024)

Short Story
Winner of Columbia Journal Fiction Contest
Winner of Mary Steinbeck Dekker Award

About being stuck, being unstuck, the strength needed to reach out and across. Featuring ethereal purgatory, the Seoul metro, an unnamed foreign narrator.

Man of God by Anna Moench (2024)

Co-director (with Anna Zheng)
Produced by the Asian-American Theater Project at Stanford University’s Nitery Theater

Among the Dead by Hansol Jung (2021)

Director
Produced by the Asian-American Theater Project at Stanford University’s Nitery Theater

When I find myself thinking ‘I’m not a director’, this is the project I remind myself of. Stupendous youthful confidence combined with a sharpened attunement to the actor-director relationship after coming out of a Meisner workshop. Seeded many enduring and so-beautiful-I-could-cry collaborations.

Breathless Stars (2021)

Adaptation Writer (from On Stars Not Falling by Scott Shallenbarger)
Produced at Koom Theater, ranked #1 on Interpark (Korean performance ticketing platform) for August 2021

Wild Goose Dreams by Hansol Jung (2020)

Director & Co-producer
Intermission Productions
Produced at Sungkyun Theater

COVID production, no budget, rehearsed out of my parents’ living room with old friends. Still one of the best things I’ve ever done.