Playwright: Ava Love Hanna
Ava Love Hanna is a professional comedy writer, playwright, and award-winning speaker and storyteller who is continually amazed by how often she is mistaken for a real grown-up.
Her work — described as being as funny as it is smart — blends sharp linguistic wit with high-concept absurdity. To date, her plays have seen over 200 performances on stages across the US, Canada, South Korea and the UK. Her scripts are frequent fixtures in the Smith & Kraus Best Ten-Minute Plays anthologies (2024 and 2025), have earned numerous nominations and awards for best original comedy and best original script, and have been selected for the ScriptWorks Out of Ink showcase seven times.
Based in Austin, Texas, Ava is the Artistic Director of Stories Found, a creative home dedicated to developing and showcasing new comedy.
My website: https://avalovehanna.com
Director: Torin Horvik
Torin Horvik is an actor, illustrator, and lover of comedy from the United States. You may have seen her on stage last year in the Seoul Players 2025 10-Minute Play Festival as Cow 1 in Bovine Existential or this year with Seoul Shakespeare Company’s production of The Taming of the Shrew as Bianca. She has also taken part in various exhibitions with The Hechyeomoyeo, HBC Art Club, and HBC’s Block Party Music & Art Festival. Torin is looking forward to making her directing debut and hopes that you enjoy the show!
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Featuring:
Miller Szulc as Charlotte
Miller is very excited to be making her first appearance in the Ten-Minute Play Festival. She is currently working as an English teacher, but can also be seen in and around Seoul singing on various stage venues and in shows. She has a BA in musical theatre and is looking forward to exercising some old muscles in her team’s production of The Elephant.
Keith Nicholson as Steven
Keith is a PhD candidate at Seoul National University studying applied dramaturgy. Originally a classically-trained flautist, he now continues his love of the stage with Seoul Players. He is proud to have directed last year’s winning play Bovine Existential and looks forward to another exciting 10MPF! For any inquiries, he can be contacted on Kakao at keith.hwp. 화이팅! 🎭
Day Ajose as The Elephant
Day Ajose is a Nigerian American actor and vocalist, who is currently a performer and resident artist with a small musical theatre company in Korea. Her additional credits include the Helen Hayes Award-winning production of The Nance (1st Stage Theatre), Eurydice (Aeneid Theatre Company), A Mouthful of Birds (British American Drama Academy), We, the Invisibles (USC School of Dramatic Arts), and Macbeth (The Maryland Renaissance Festival). She also voices Jackie in Studio Flimplo’s upcoming indie animation pilot, Mandelbrot Hall. This will mark her first time performing in the Seoul Players Ten-Minute Play Festival.