Present Board Members
Meaghan Harding - Artistic Director
Meaghan is the Artistic Director of Seoul Players. A native of Newfoundland, Canada, Meaghan has worked as a stage manager, designer, actor and dancer in Ottawa, Montreal, Fogo and St. John's, and served as General Manager of Ahrm's Way Theatre (St. John's) before moving to Korea in 2009. In Seoul she has acted and directed for Actors Without Bard'ers, and stage managed Seoul Players' successful run of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee in 2010.
Jason Stone - Artistic Associate
Jason is a director, singer, actor, dancer from Chisago Lakes, MN. Jason holds a Theatre Performance degree from MN State University, Mankato. He has performed in many shows including The Medora Musical, an international tour of Babes in Toyland, and his favorite, the title role in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. He is very excited to be a part of the ever growing ex-pat theater community in Seoul!
Blake E. Bolan - Artistic Associate
Blake E. Bolan is an Artistic Associate of Seoul Players. She earned a degree in theater from the University of Kansas. She acted and directed for an experimental theatre workshop for 11 years and she completed an internship with the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre in New York City. She is a founding member of the Minneapolis-based Savage Umbrella theater company. Last year she acted in Seoul Players' The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and directed Wintertime. She is currently leading the Seoul workshop of The Ravagers, co-produced by Savage Umbrella, Seoul Players, and The Workshop Division.
Heidi Jedlicka - Administrative Director
Heidi Jedlicka is the Administrative Director of Seoul Players. Hailing from Sioux Falls, SD USA she holds a degree in Theatre from The College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, MN USA. While in University she was fortunate to travel to Europe and China which fostered her love of theatre in international and non-traditional settings. After two children's theatre tours with South Dakota based Children's Theatre Company of Sioux Falls and Minnesota based CLIMB Theatre, she worked with several Minneapolis based companies before heading to Korea in 2009. When she's not answering Seoul Players emails, or teaching small children, you can find her lavishing attention on her grumpy turtle, Alfie or eating carbs.
Joe Halvarson - Web Master
Joe Halvarson is a lover of the arts from Forest Lake, MN. He came to Korea by way of Minneapolis a few years after securing a degree in English from the Univeristy of Minnesota, Morris. Joe began making web pages soon after his family got their first computer in 1998. His first website was for a little thing, you've probably heard of it, Downstairs Basement Championship Wrestling. That was made on Angelfire and can be located using the Internet Archive. Currently he hopes he makes better webpages (and writes better poetry than that) and performs improv whenever possible. Joe began his improv love in 2002 in college. After graduating he was a member of The T-Rex Force, Treppenwitz and performed with ComedySportz in Minneapolis, MN. Joe currently performs when possible with Seoul City Improv.
Jessica Adel - Outreach Director
Jessica Adel is a transplanted Canadian actor, singer, writer, and promoter of strong community living who now calls Korea home. Working as The Director of Community Outreach, she hopes to build strong partnerships between the ex-pat and Korean theatre communities of Seoul. With interests ranging from yoga to digital art, from dancing to bunnies and moon-gazing, it's a wonder she finds time to feed herself and crawl in to bed each night.
Though she misses maple cookies and the occasional moose sighting, Jessica plans to continue building social ties in lovely, mulit-colour ribbons all over the city of Seoul, and sees herself settling here for a substantial amount of time... or, at least until the next full moon
Jessica Lofbomm - Outreach Associate
Jessica Lofbomm, outreach associate for Seoul Players, is from West Chicago, Illinois, USA. Jessica grew up singing, dancing and acting in school and community productions. She studied commercial music at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. Jessica came to Korea in 2006 to work as an "edutainer" at Gyeonggi English Village, Paju Camp. From there, she transitioned to full time voice acting. Jessica has occasionally performed with the Seoul Players, including a role in their first musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Jessica and her husband Adam run Laughing Tree Gallery in Haebangchon and are thrilled to be helping foster the creative international community in Seoul.
Adam Lofbomm - Outreach Associate
Adam Lofbomm, from Nashville, Tennessee, USA is serving Seoul Players as an outreach associate. Raised in the home of two visual artists, Adam has always been creative. As an actor, Adam has graced Korean television screens and voiced countless video games, television programs and audio books. As a visual artist, Adam blurs the lines between photography and painting and was recently granted a residency with Seoul Museum of Art's Nanji studio. He and his wife Jessica opened Laughing Tree Gallery in 2010 as a way to reach out to the booming artistic community in Seoul. He brings big ideas, artistic know-how, and a real community awareness to the Seoul Players board.
Stephanie Foster - Outreach Associate
Stephanie Ann Foster hails from southern California, where life on her grandfather'’s ranch and an ample supply of old wedding dresses taught her the magic of effort and whimsy combined. While in California she became a founding member of the San Jacinto Valley Shakespeare Festival, and cavorted for two seasons with the Renaissance comedy troupe Marlowe’s Shadowe. She then went on to tour for four years as an actress, director, and unit leader with the Covenant Players drama ministry. Performances in prisons, military bases, churches, schools, and on street corners convinced her that theatre works in any space, and the audiences of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Mainland China, and South Korea, confirmed that it captivates in any culture.
Stephanie currently teaches British literature and drama at an international school in Seoul. While pursuing an MA in Shakespeare and Theatre through the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, she dabbles in improv, badgers others about Shakespeare, and impulsively hands her soul off to the stage. She recently appeared as Portia in the Actors Without Barders production of The Merchant of Venice, and as Sheila in the Seoul Players production of A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.
As an outreach associate with the Seoul Players, she’'d like to buy you a veggie burger, reorganize your cabinets, and involve you in the madness.
Matt Hawkins - Treasurer
Matt is the Treasurer of Seoul Players. An Iowa native, Matt studied geography and political science at the University of Iowa, where he also played in bands that mostly involved screaming. Since 2010 he has assisted with lighting, sound, front of house, and general helpfulness on several Seoul Players shows, and is very please to have formalized this relationship by joining the board.
