Theatre Company · Established 2026
Korean-language theatre with sensory English subtitles — original work from the San Francisco Bay Area about the quiet, fierce everyday lives of modern pioneers.
(a) Mission
"We are not just immigrants; we are all pioneers shaping modern America." Modoo Theatre brings the quiet yet fierce everyday lives of these pioneers to the stage through Korean dialogue, theatrical symbolism, and English subtitles — showing that our lives are woven together like jogakbo, the traditional Korean patchwork, to form the true fabric of America.
Watching Korean on stage while reading English is exactly how the Bay Area already lives — in markets, clinics, and on the street, where languages cross every day. Our subtitles are written as performance text, not translation footnotes.
Modoo means everyone
All pioneers welcome
Original new work
Subtitle craft
Étude ensemble
Project-based company
(b) Approach
Stanislavski-based ensemble practice: voice, speech, and stage movement, 3 hours per session.
Actors improvise moments from their own pioneering lives; the play is written from what surfaces.
Symbol, physical theatre, and musical sequences carry the passion under an ordinary surface.
Sensory English captions written to land the same beat as the Korean line.
(c) Leadership
Founding members hold the vision and oversee each production; specialists are contracted per project with clear scopes and per-project budgets.
Jun Koeun
Co-Founder · Artistic Director
Hyeyoung Kwon
Co-Founder · Managing Director
Meeze Park
Senior Advisor · Stage Visuals
Goeun Shin
Creative Director · Acting Lead
Jeyoung Hwang
General Affairs Director
Mideum Lee
Digital Director