In Helen’s Shoes: Making Music that Transcends Barriers
Name: Helen Park
Hometown: Busan, South Korea
What does it mean to have a voice?Having a voice means to tell stories through your passion and build bridges between cultures and languages.
Author: Helen Park
Helen Park is the first Asian composer or lyricist to win a Lucille Lortel Award and a three-time Drama Desk Award Nominee. Her recent work includes KPOP, her off-Broadway musical debut for which she wrote Music and Lyrics, Music Produced and Orchestrated. The show received a sold-out, extended run at Ars Nova, and was awarded the 2018 Richard Rodgers Award and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical. KPOP is currently being re-developed for the Broadway stage. This fall (2020), her first film, Over the Moon, came out on Netflix. It is the first film for which she composed songs for. Helen is an alumnus of NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop (Advanced).