THE PIECE
Jumpers is a theatrical investigation of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster told through the overlooked lives of contract workers cleaning the site. At its center is Astro Girl—a cartoonish, trickster narrator who disrupts the action with unreliable commentary and shifting genres. Blending documentary and absurdity, the play exposes the human cost of technological progress while questioning how disasters that are ongoing, politicized, and obscured can ever be fully represented.
THE ARTIST
HyoJeong Choi is from Seoul, Boston, and a few other places across the globe. She was an aspiring nuclear physicist until she realized she was spending more time in the theater than in her lab. Her play based on this experience, On Epistemological Problemsin Atomic Physics, was selected for Rattlestick Theater’s inaugural Terrence McNally New Works Incubator program. Her works have also been seen/developed at Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Workshop Theater, Central Square Theater, Apollinaire Theater, and Harvard. She is currently a member of the New Georges Jam. MFA, Carnegie Mellon; BS, MIT.