National Playwrights Conference - 12 Chairs

By Jesse Jae Hoon

Based on the novel by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov

In this raucous satire, a disgraced former nobleman discovers that his spiteful mother-in-law hid the family jewels in the seat of one of twelve long-lost chairs as the Russian Revolution began. What to do but venture forth across the new Soviet Union to reclaim the riches?

Jesse Jae Hoon is a playwright and organizer whose work combines raucous comedy with a deeply felt sense of urgency to investigate power, class, hope, and our responsibility to the collective good. 2022-2024 CRNY Resident Artist, Ma-Yi Theater Company; 2023-2025 member, Public Theater Emerging Writers Group; Winner, 2023 Ollie Award; 2024 MacDowell Fellow; 2022-2023 Writing Fellow, Playwrights Realm; under commission from Theater J; 2023 Radio Roots fellow, The Parsnip Ship; inaugural member, Orchard Project Adaptation Lab; member, The TANK NYC's LIT Council, Page Break. MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College, BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch. jessejaehoon.com

Location: Edith Oliver Theater - outdoors.

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