Jake Sung-Guk Sullivan
Jake Sung-Guk Sullivan
ABOUT
JAKE SUNG-GUK SULLIVAN is a Boston-based director and theatre maker originally from Minneapolis, MN. DIRECTING CREDITS: [title of show]; The Wedding Singer; The Pavilion (Lyric Arts Main Street Stage), The Name Jar; A Different Pond (Stages Theatre Company / Theatre Mu), Relative Location (CLIMB Theatre), Disney's The Little Mermaid (Lakeshore Players Theatre), Ken Ludwig's SHERWOOD (Anoka Community Theatre). H.G. Wells' THE INVISIBLE MAN; The Lady Demands Satisfaction ([un]qualified theatre), and West Side Story (Inver Grove Heights Community Theatre). Associate / Assistant Directing: Cambodian Rock Band (Theatre Mu / The Jungle Theatre), The Heart Sellers (The Guthrie Theatre). Jake served as a Fellow in the inaugural Ordway Center / Knight Fellowship for Emerging BIPOC Directors. He also works as an actor, designer, and composer. He holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Minnesota State University, Mankato. He is passionate about modern examinations of canon texts, new work that highlights diverse perspectives, and physical theatre that reflects on the “Creative How”. He is currently pursuing his Masters in Directing at Boston University.
DIRECTING
ACTING
OUR TOWN:
"Leading this large and talented ensemble cast is Jake Sung-Guk Sullivan ... he's a warm and charming narrator, guiding us through the story, speaking directly to the audience in a conversational and conspiratorial way, as if he's as fascinated by these town residents as we are." - Cherry & Spoon
"... Sullivan is notably younger than other Stage Managers I recall... With Sullivan in the role, as the play progresses, the Stage Manager unleashes the enthusiasm and sense of discovery of a young man, expressing joy and delight in every morsel of life in Grover's Corners. His sense of wonder invites us to join him in absorbing the beauty and energy of life's bounty viewed, not in hindsight but as it is revealed." - Talkin' Broadway
THE 39 STEPS
"But Jake Sung-Guk Sullivan and Brendan Veerman are quick-changing marvels... The nimble cast — Sullivan and Veerman are particularly good — ....get things rolling on Peter Lerohl's handsome set, depicting a vintage theater's backstage area." - Star Tribune
"The remainder of the cast are Jake Sung-Guk Sullivan as Clown 1 and Brendan Veerman as Clown 2 ...They are both masters of dialect and physical transformation... they truly make each character distinct and believable. Sullivan and Veerman have a gift for making each role, no matter how minor, feel like a real person even when it’s cartoonish and that, is the secret to comedy." - Stages of MN
WITCH
"Jake Sung-Guk Sullivan and Samuel Osborne-Huerta as frenemies Frank and Cuddy, both so funny and with a cute love-hate chemistry between them (and a great fight scene choreographed by Annie Enneking)." - Cherry & Spoon
"The Stages of MN favorite Jake Sung-Guk Sullivan plays Frank Thorney, think Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, you can see why Cuddy is jealous of him, but even he gets a moment to show some real emotion, when he makes what I would consider his real deal with the Devil even though Scratch is nowhere in sight." - Stages of MN
SHOWS to Do
Musicals
The Addams Family
Allegiance
Cambodian Rock Band
Come From Away
Damn Yankees
Guys & Dolls
Hadestown
Heathers
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Into the Woods
James & the Giant Peach
Jesus Christ Superstar
Les Miserables
Merrily We Roll Along
Midnight Cowboy
The Old Man & the Old Moon
Once
The Pirates of Penzance
Ragtime
See What I Wanna See
Something Rotten
The Spitfire Grill
Twelfth Night - Taub
Young Frankenstein
West Side Story
Plays
The Aeneid - Kemeid, Miller
Camino Real
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Caught
Cowboy vs Samurai
Cyrano de Bergerac - Crimp or Posner
The Great Leap
Hamlet
Headlands
Let the Right One In
Macbeth
A Monster Calls
Murder on the Orient Express
North by Northwest
The Play That Goes Wrong
Peerless
Sherwood
Romeo & Juliet
The 39 Steps
The Three Musketeers
Vietgone
Spain
Streetcar Named Desire
Witch - Silverman
Yellowface
You Stupid Darkness!