KPOP - Off-broadway


SCOPE

Scenic Design

year

2017

location

A.R.T/New York Theatres

CLIENT

Ars Nova + Ma-Yi Theater Company + Woodshed Collective


Awards and Nominations

Nine 2018 Lucillle Lortel Nominations, including Scenic Design by Gabriel Hanier Evansohn

Three 2018 Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Musical

Seven 2018 Drama Desk Nominations, including Outstanding Musical 

Two 2018 Drama League Awards, including Outstanding Production of a Broadway or Off-Broadway Musical

Winner of the 2018 Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater


Press

"A delicious spectacle...expansive,catchy,and cunning. An outwardly flashy, deceptively shrewd investigation-cum-celebration of the peppy, glamorous, multi-billion-dollar musical genre. A group of Asian performers leaves it all on the floor in hopes of winning American acceptance and approval. This is the phenomenon that KPOP is skewering and, ultimately, turning triumphantly on its head." - Sara Holdren, New York (Vulture)

"Tiny bubbles of pleasure keep floating up and bursting all around us. Pop! Pop! Pop! We're sold. I defy you not to enjoy KPOP!" - Adam Feldman, Time Out New York

"Undoubtedly the most ambitious off-broadway musical of the year!" - Zachary Stewart, theatermania.com

"Gabriel Hainer Evansohn’s sets are marvels of manicured kitsch." - Ben Brantley, The New York Times

"The production/scenic design, by Gabriel Hainer Evansohn, is a marvel of layout and planning, not to mention crowd control..." - David Barbour, Lighting and Sound America


ADDITIONAL CREDITS

Conceived by Woodshed Collective and Jason Kim

Book by Jason Kim

Music and Lyrics by Helen Park and Max Vernon

Directed by Teddy Bergman

Choreographed by Jennifer Weber

Costume Design by Tricia Barsamian

Lighting Design by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew

Sound Design by Will Pickens

Projection and Video Design by Phillip Gulley

Production Stage Managed by Lizzy Lee

Casting by Henry Russell Bergstein

Music Direction by Sujin Kim-Ramsey

Orchestrations, Vocal Arrangements, and Music Production by Helen Park and Max Vernon