Biography
Charlie Oh is a playwright/lyricist/actor and a second-year playwright in the Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. His work has been developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Rep, the BMI Lehmen Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, NYC SongSpace, The Brooklyn Generator, and Catwalk Writer’s Residency. His play LONG won the Kennedy Center’s Paula Vogel Award in Playwriting, placed second for the Mark Twain Prize for Comic Playwriting, and received Honorable Mention for The American Playwriting Foundation's 2019 Relentless Award. He is a winner of the Disney/NMI 2018 New Voices Project and The Craig Carnelia Songwriting Award. He is a graduate of Northwestern University, where he studied playwriting under Laura Schellhardt. His acting credits include The King and I, directed by Bartlett Sher, and All These Small Moments (Tribeca Film Festival).
Plays Written At Juilliard
COLEMAN '72
A Korean-American family piles into the Buick for an all-American road-trip: open plains, rickety camper-trailer, kimchi, and banchan. But Korean parents and American kids hold conflicting ideas of what they’re looking for when the real purpose of their journey comes to light.
ESCAPELAND
Escapeland follows the backstage life of character theme park performers as they experience more puke than princesses, more sweat than smiles.
THE DISRUPTORS
A young college graduate finds her dream job working at a massive social media company. As her friends enjoy the glamour and green juices of Silicon Valley, she finds herself caught in the middle of a scandal that could destroy her life.