Yeena Sung (she/her) is a NYC-based actor and singer-songwriter with passions ranging from writing, drawing, and videography. Originally from South Korea, Yeena is an empathetic storyteller dedicated to exploring questions on home and ancestral identity, and generates art that embraces her in-between identity as a Korean/Korean-American. Graduate of Columbia University (MFA) and NYU Tisch School of the Arts (BFA).
Acting
Clique Bait
Dir. Anna Mikami
Set in the international school community of Hong Kong, a high school girl spreads a video sexualizing her childhood friend and classmate.
Happy Cleaners
Dir. Julian Kim, Peter S. Lee
When the Choi family lose their dry cleaning business, they learn to love each other to survive the crisis and heartaches that they cause each other.
29 Hour Famine
Dir. Etzu Shaw
When a devout teenager discovers evidence of someone eating at her church youth group’s annual fasting event, she goes to absurd lengths to catch the culprit.
Film & TV
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
HBO Original Series John Oliver discusses one of the largest franchises in the U.S., how their business model doesn’t always serve franchisees, and what it all has to do with Korean dramas.
Younger: The F Word
TV Land Original Series
Liza and Kelsey start an underground event called Inkubator where they discover a talented writer, Dylan Park. Liza debates telling Charles about Quinn's true motives.
Let’s Play Dead Girl
Dir. Christian A. Moran
Inspired by true events, three young girls decide to bring Slenderman to life by sacrificing one of their friends.
Hi-Fi, Wi-Fi, Sci-Fi
Dir. Billy Clark, Jason Trucco
Writ. Robert Patrick
For La MaMa's 55th season, Robert Patrick's original plays are staged as startlingly contemporary works far ahead of their time that allow us to expand the view of our digital lives.
Welcome to my R(ㄲ)oom
Dir. Chaesong Kim, Writ. Yeena Sung
A creative intersection of musical concert, poetry, and personal narrative, Welcome to my Room, follows 'Y', a Korean expat turned New Yorker who grapples with being a forever-foreigner and living in a female body.
Film & TV
Where Women Go
Dir. Aimee Hayes, Writ. Tina Howe
Where Women Go is a set of three short one-acts, exploring the humor and absurdity of women's daily lives.
To the Ends of the Earth/ 땅끝까지
Dir. Keenan Tyler Oliphant
Writ. Jeesun Choi
A bilingual play about the Korean
diaspora and personhood as told by a constellation of women+ characters.
Comedy of Errors
Dir. Scott Ebersold
Writ. William Shakespeare
Twin siblings were shipwrecked in a violent storm. When they arrive in Ephesus in search of their long-lost twins, they strangely find themselves greeted like old friends of this town.
The Great Leap
Dir. Rui Dun, Writ. Lauren Yee
San Francisco, 1989. Manford Lum talks his way onto a college team, just before they travel to Beijing for a "friendship" game. When they arrive, China is in the throes of the post-Cultural Revolution era.
Theatre