Celine Song

Celine Song (born 1988) is a South Korean-Canadian director, playwright, and screenwriter based in the United States. Among her plays are Endlings and The Seagull on The Sims 4. Her directorial film debut Past Lives was released at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. Early life and education Song was born in South Korea. Her parents, both artists, moved the family to Markham, Ontario, Canada when she was 12. Her father, Song Neung-han, is a filmmaker. Song attended Queen's University in Ontario for her undergraduate degree and studied psychology, before receiving her MFA in play writing from Columbia University in New York in 2014. Career Song's play Endlings premiered in 2019 at the American Repertory Theater. The show's off-Broadway run opened in March 2020 at New York Theatre Workshop, but was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The show tells the story of three older Korean women haenyeos and a Korean-Canadian writer living in New York. In a mixed review, Alexandra Schwartz of The New Yorker described Endlings as "two works spliced roughly together: a traditional play that seeks to depict people’s lives, and a metafictional examination of the playwright’s own motivations, which flirts with honesty before traipsing down a solipsistic path of no return."