PAST MEMBERS OF SEOUL PLAYERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
There have been many amazing people who have served on the Board of Directors over the past years. Some served for one year, some for several. All were important! You can find their names, bios, and photos below. (Note: Many bios below were the bios published when they were still serving on the board, but a few have been updated!)
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Barri served as Seoul Players Artistic Director from 2011-2015. She has a BS in Film from Boston University and hails from New York, where she performed and taught improv and sketch comedy for eight years before transplanting herself to Seoul in 2010. Her play I WILL FOLLOW debuted in the 2009 NY International Fringe Festival and NO TAMPONS IN PARADISE was performed and workshopped in New York. Favorite Seoul roles include Ophelia, Tamora in Titus Andronicus, Joan in "Sexual Perversity in Chicago, "the moaner" in The Vagina Monologues, and Germain in "Picasso at the Lapin Agile." Seoul directing credits include David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross," Tom Stoppard's "The Real Inspector Hound," and "The Vagina Monologues" (twice!). Her short play, "Anthropology," won 3rd place in the 2013 Seoul Players Ten Minute Play Festival.
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South African native Heshina Pillay, is a BA Honours Graduate in Theatre and Drama and Performance, as well as Culture and Media Studies from the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban. Heshina is an actor and voice artist in Seoul. She has written and directed a Brechtian play called “Paying Attention to a Free Show.” She currently runs and presents a travel and lifestyle blog and YouTube channel called “The Haute Hesh.”
MEAGHAN HARDING - ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR
Meaghan is a native of Newfoundland, Canada. She worked as a stage manager, designer, actor, and dancer in Ottawa, Montreal, Fogo, and St. John's before moving to Korea in 2009. Favourite Seoul credits include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (stage manager), The Ravagers (actor), The Architect Becomes a Tree (dancer) and A Streetcar Named Desire (costume design). She has also produced more plays here in Seoul than she cares to count, and is working towards an M.Ed. from Framingham State University in her spare time.
Meaghan is a native of Newfoundland, Canada. She worked as a stage manager, designer, actor, and dancer in Ottawa, Montreal, Fogo, and St. John's before moving to Korea in 2009. Favourite Seoul credits include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (stage manager), The Ravagers (actor), The Architect Becomes a Tree (dancer) and A Streetcar Named Desire (costume design). She has also produced more plays here in Seoul than she cares to count, and is working towards an M.Ed. from Framingham State University in her spare time.
QUINN OLBRICH - ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE
Quinn enjoys taking part in musicals, straight theater, and dance pieces. In Seoul he has appeared in You Art Not Alone (Seoul Players), Yellow Face (Probationary Theatre), and Seussical (Camarata), to name a few. He has directed Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for Probationary Theatre and looks forward to more directing projects in the future. He also has a passion for writing and is studying to become a broadcast journalist.
Quinn enjoys taking part in musicals, straight theater, and dance pieces. In Seoul he has appeared in You Art Not Alone (Seoul Players), Yellow Face (Probationary Theatre), and Seussical (Camarata), to name a few. He has directed Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for Probationary Theatre and looks forward to more directing projects in the future. He also has a passion for writing and is studying to become a broadcast journalist.
MATT HAWKINS - TREASURER
Matt enjoys helping out behind the scenes in any way he can, whether it be rewiring lights, getting sandwiches, being tall, or you know, managing all of our finances for us, without which we would never get anything done!
Matt enjoys helping out behind the scenes in any way he can, whether it be rewiring lights, getting sandwiches, being tall, or you know, managing all of our finances for us, without which we would never get anything done!
HEIDI JEDLICKA - ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR
Heidi Jedlicka was the Administrative Director of Seoul Players. Hailing from Sioux Falls, SD USA she holds a degree in Theatre from The College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, MN USA. While in University she was fortunate to travel to Europe and China which fostered her love of theatre in international and non-traditional settings. After two children's theatre tours with South Dakota based Children's Theatre Company of Sioux Falls and Minnesota based CLIMB Theatre, she worked with several Minneapolis based companies before heading to Korea in 2009. When she's not answering Seoul Players emails, or teaching small children, you can find her lavishing attention on her grumpy turtle, Alfie or eating carbs.
Heidi Jedlicka was the Administrative Director of Seoul Players. Hailing from Sioux Falls, SD USA she holds a degree in Theatre from The College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, MN USA. While in University she was fortunate to travel to Europe and China which fostered her love of theatre in international and non-traditional settings. After two children's theatre tours with South Dakota based Children's Theatre Company of Sioux Falls and Minnesota based CLIMB Theatre, she worked with several Minneapolis based companies before heading to Korea in 2009. When she's not answering Seoul Players emails, or teaching small children, you can find her lavishing attention on her grumpy turtle, Alfie or eating carbs.
BLAKE E. BOLAN - ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE
Blake E. Bolan was an Artistic Associate of Seoul Players. She earned a degree in theater from the University of Kansas. She acted and directed for an experimental theatre workshop for 11 years and she completed an internship with the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre in New York City. She is a founding member of the Minneapolis-based Savage Umbrella theater company. Last year she acted in Seoul Players' The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and directed Wintertime. She is currently leading the Seoul workshop of The Ravagers, co-produced by Savage Umbrella, Seoul Players, and The Workshop Division.
Blake E. Bolan was an Artistic Associate of Seoul Players. She earned a degree in theater from the University of Kansas. She acted and directed for an experimental theatre workshop for 11 years and she completed an internship with the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre in New York City. She is a founding member of the Minneapolis-based Savage Umbrella theater company. Last year she acted in Seoul Players' The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and directed Wintertime. She is currently leading the Seoul workshop of The Ravagers, co-produced by Savage Umbrella, Seoul Players, and The Workshop Division.
JONATHAN SHARROCK
Jonathan Sharrock is an Australian businessman who was based in Seoul from 2002 to 2007. To this day he is still trying to work out who he sufficiently upset to get sent to Korea, but he now enjoys the kimchi, soju and karaoke on a global basis. Whilst Jonathan's thespian activities normally took place on the wrong side of the bar at any of the usual haunts around Seoul, playing Les in Bouncers was his formal acting debut. After the departure of the Seoul Players founder Roman Zolnierczyk in 2005, Jonathan took the reins for his last 2 years in Seoul and was responsible for producing Never Swim Alone, This is a Play, and Hitchcock Blonde.
Jonathan Sharrock is an Australian businessman who was based in Seoul from 2002 to 2007. To this day he is still trying to work out who he sufficiently upset to get sent to Korea, but he now enjoys the kimchi, soju and karaoke on a global basis. Whilst Jonathan's thespian activities normally took place on the wrong side of the bar at any of the usual haunts around Seoul, playing Les in Bouncers was his formal acting debut. After the departure of the Seoul Players founder Roman Zolnierczyk in 2005, Jonathan took the reins for his last 2 years in Seoul and was responsible for producing Never Swim Alone, This is a Play, and Hitchcock Blonde.
PAMELA MUNOZ - COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR
Pamela has been involved with Seoul Players since 2006. Beginning as a Front of House volunteer, she soon became a member of the Seoul Players Board to help with its communications activities in the community. She has lived in Korea since 2005 and has seen Seoul's theatre scene flourish over the years. WIth a long history in the performing arts back in Canada and her Public Relations background, she has been thrilled to be part of the growing professionalism of Seoul Players. With her departure from Seoul, Pamela will remain as a Communications Consultant to Seoul Players and is looking forward to the exciting future the group holds as a vibrant component to Seoul's growing international scene.
Pamela has been involved with Seoul Players since 2006. Beginning as a Front of House volunteer, she soon became a member of the Seoul Players Board to help with its communications activities in the community. She has lived in Korea since 2005 and has seen Seoul's theatre scene flourish over the years. WIth a long history in the performing arts back in Canada and her Public Relations background, she has been thrilled to be part of the growing professionalism of Seoul Players. With her departure from Seoul, Pamela will remain as a Communications Consultant to Seoul Players and is looking forward to the exciting future the group holds as a vibrant component to Seoul's growing international scene.
JESSICA RAU - OUTREACH ASSOCIATE
Jessica is a Chicago native and commercial music performance grad from Belmont University. She has been a Seoulite for six years and works as a voice actor and studio singer. Catch her regularly with the acoustic duo, Just Friends. Jessica is thankful for such a collaborative creative community in Seoul.
*Jessica is now living in L.A., performing music and working as a voice actress.
Jessica is a Chicago native and commercial music performance grad from Belmont University. She has been a Seoulite for six years and works as a voice actor and studio singer. Catch her regularly with the acoustic duo, Just Friends. Jessica is thankful for such a collaborative creative community in Seoul.
*Jessica is now living in L.A., performing music and working as a voice actress.
ROMAN ZOLNIERCZYK
Roman Zolnierczyk originally founded Seoul Players in 2001.
Roman Zolnierczyk originally founded Seoul Players in 2001.
ANTHONY GALLOWAY
KRISTA SHEEN
