Finding My DNA

YOUNG JANE: It tastes like… Big brekkie set from McDonalds
but with rice and…that black thingy.

YOUNG KATE: It’s called 김

YOUNG JANE: Kate, I could just tell my teacher that our parents are not Korean.

YOUNG KATE:♩♪꽃피는 산골, 복숭아 꽃 살구 꽃 아기 진달래

YOUNG JANE & KATE:♩♪울긋 불긋 꽃 대궐 차린 동네
그 속에서 놀던 때가 그립습니다. 그 속에서 놀던 때가 그립습니다♫

Jane, a Korean adoptee, journeys to find her biological mother to fulfil her sister’s dying wish. What was once a country and culture she despised, becomes a place of unexpected reconciliation.

Written & Directed by Seyoung Oh. 2023

Motion Capture

Super cool MoCap opportunity for Cinamon!

Directed by Goos. 2022

Rogue Waves

Available to stream on Apple Podcast, Spotify, & Google

Hye Bin makes her voiceover debut in this riveting podcast drama set in the post-apocalyptic world of 2025. Rogue Waves, a grassroots news station, strives to reveal the truth behind a new, more aggressive virus mutation that is devolving the world into apocalyptic crisis.
Hye Bin had to learn some intense scientific and medical terms in this project as Dr. Xuri Zhou, who tries to share all the answers she has until it is too late.
Work amid the pandemic, about the pandemic - Inception? Close.

Written & Created by Bryan Mittelstadt. 2020
Art by Jaqueline Ross.

Brunch in Babel

“ JOAN: For God’s sake, Catherine,
I can’t understand a word you say, your mouth full of food.
I’m tired of looking at your eggs
tumble around your mouth like soggy towels in a dryer. “

Awards: “Best Dark Comedy Short”
“Best Experimental Short”
“Best Acting Ensemble”
“Best First Time Director (Male)”
“Best Sound Design”

Independent Shorts Awards, Los Angeles, May 2020.

Are we truly an evolved society when much of our relationships and interactions lack genuine communication? Set in a New York City diner, this short drama reveals four distinct relationships, each suffering from the inability to listen, and in turn, to be heard.

Directed by Derek Nicoletto. 2020
7 Trick Pony LLC. On The Rocks Films.

Aller Retour

“ She exits the frame
only to come back to take what she’s forgotten —
a half-empty bottle of red and a mug. “

The French title, “Aller Retour,” can be translated in English as “Back and Forth.” This dramatic short film encapsulates emptiness — both spatial and temporal — and its presence in loneliness.

Directed by Rali Chaouni. 2020
Stills from “Aller Retour”

Capitexic

“ Calorie count.
I feel gross.
If I could just trim all this off. “

“Capitexic” is a hybrid between CAPITalism and anorEXIC. This play examines the cyclical parallels between capitalism and eating disorders — how capitalism’s consumerist values can simultaneously promote a culture of restriction (starvation). As the lead role in this coming-of-age play, Hye Bin had the opportunity to delve into the psyche of Elle’s relationship with anorexia.

Directed by Gabrielle Schlein. 2020
The Hudson Guild Theatre
Photos by Hannah Wing

Good Girl

“ JANE: You’ve always had this way of moving through life,
since we were kids. Seas part for you.
It’s not like that for me.

Jane finishes her cigarette alone, then throws the butt in the fire.
She watches it burn up. “

Hye Bin starred alongside Lucy McMichael in this mother-daughter drama following Jane, a teenage girl arriving home after conversion therapy, and her struggles as well as her will to overcome her sexuality.

Directed by Hannah Webb. 2019
Photos by Jared Brill

Not You But Everyone Else

“ MEL: (Sarcastic) In fact, I got a degree in Viking studies
with a minor in bowling industries management. You?

ANDY: (Equally, if not more, sarcastic)
Well, I decided I wanted the finer things in life
so I got a degree in Canadian Studies.
Naturally, I went to grad school
and now I have masters in Ass-Hattery.

MEL: What was your thesis subject?

ANDY: Twerking. “

When Hye Bin first got the sides in the audition room for this hilarious play and read about feeling like a complete failure writing cover letters, getting rejected from grad school, paying (or being unable to pay) rent — in simple terms, “adulting” — she knew she had to be a part of a story that she knew all too well. In Not You But Everyone Else, Hye Bin played Aria, Mel’s best friend who has her life all together with a great job, a serious relationship — the life-of-the-party in any room she enters.

Nothing like Hye Bin’s real life. Therein lies the beauty of acting.

Directed by Ariel Leigh Cohen. 2019
The Tank
Photos by Cordelia Senie

L Train Vintage: Graham Avenue

“ Kevin: And NOW I’m late to this interview.
I went to school for fucking acting.
I should be asking for change.

Homeless Man: I wouldn’t worry too much about it kid.
I studied law and look at me now. “

Voted “Best of Fest” at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe’s
2019 Short Play and Monologue Festival

What better way to make her stage debut in Manhattan, NYC, than with a piece set entirely in the beloved MTA (NYC’s subway). L-Train Vintage: Graham Avenue brings the audience into the lives of six, seven including the voice of the Train Announcer, New Yorkers. Strangers, friends, and lovers, they journey on the same carriage of the L Train — an underground species we New Yorkers know all too well.

Written by Kari Luna. Directed by Jenn Susi. 2019
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Photos by Sebastian Bass

But I Was There

“ All I can remember now is the T.V. in the background,
some late night show host making political jokes
while his hands ran under my sweater. He thought it was funny.
His lips were like callouses. “

Hye Bin starred as Maddie in this deeply raw piece about disconnection and miscommunication. However, the playwright’s fearlessness to address the timely topic of sexual harassment was the reason Hye Bin jumped at the opportunity to tell this story.

Written by Ali Zagame. Directed by Victoria Preis. 2019
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Photos by Victoria Preis

Beyond Blue Flowers

A fantasy short film that renditions the writer/director’s own journey and discovery towards her femininity and self-worth, amid challenges of societal gender norms and constraints.

Written & Directed by Notes Thunnyahnondha Kaewbaidhoon. 2018
Photos by Seok Wun

A Winter’s Tale

“ Hermione: Tell’s a tale.

Mamillius: Merry or sad shall't be?

Hermione: As merry as you will.

Mamillius: A sad tale's best for winter: I have one
Of sprites and goblins. ”

William Shakespeare

Hye Bin makes her stage debut at Daehak-ro, Seoul’s main theatre district, often referred to as the ‘Broadway’ of Seoul, in this fable-like tale of jealousy, tyranny, repentance, reconciliation — and ultimately, forgiveness.

But with Shakespeare, what else is new?

Directed by Michael Downey. Seoul Shakespeare Company
Theater EGG & NUCLEUS. 2017
Photos by Robert Michael Evans