Celine Song
Celine Song is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and filmmaker whose signature blend of emotional depth, intelligence, and humor has established her as an essential voice in today’s entertainment landscape.
Most recently, Song presented her highly anticipated sophomore feature, MATERIALISTS, which was released internationally on June 13 through A24 and Sony Pictures. Written, directed, and produced by Song, the film follows Lucy (Dakota Johnson), a young, ambitious New York City matchmaker torn between the perfect match (Pedro Pascal) and her imperfect ex (Chris Evans).
Released by A24 in Summer 2023 following its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, Song's feature debut PAST LIVES has received widespread critical acclaim. The film earned Academy Award® nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture, alongside numerous other honors including the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Feature Film, Best Feature Film at the 2023 Gotham Awards, the Film Independent Spirit Award for both Best Picture and Best Director, as well as Golden Globe®, Critics’ Choice, and BAFTA nominations.
As a playwright, Song is best known for ENDLINGS, which premiered in 2019 at American Repertory Theater and had its New York debut in 2020 at New York Theatre Workshop. She has been a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a semifinalist for the American Playwriting Foundation's Relentless Award. During New York Theatre Workshop’s virtual 2020 season, she presented THE SEAGULL ON THE SIMS 4 live on Twitch. Song also wrote on the first season of Amazon series THE WHEEL OF TIME.
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Endlings
GO MIN
숙자야 (Sook Ja-yah)
I wasn’t born here, did you know that?
I’ve never told you that before
I was born on an island nearby
Really close, only a few hours away on a boat
A matchmaker bought my brother a drink
So he told her that he had the perfect bride for her client
An exceptional swimmer
A hearty bruise-woman
For a guarantee of lifetime of income
He gave me away
My big brother sold my life for a drink
And that’s my immigration
A little immigration of my own
Just to be beaten up by the sea waves all day
And then beaten up by my loser drunk husband all night
Silence
숙자야 (Sook Ja-yah)
What do you want to do in your next life?
In my next life
I want to drive a car
A little red one
Drive it everywhere
Go see the mountains
The big buildings
Drive it across the prairies
Take the highway
I don’t have a driver’s license
I can’t take the written test because I can’t read
But when I see someone drive a car on TV
It looks easy
I think I could do it
I think I’d be good at it
Maybe I could drive a cab
Drive people around
What do you think?
You think I’d be good at it?
Beat
숙자야 (Sook Ja-yah)
In your next life
I hope you get to live the way you want
Silence
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LITTLE CLAM 3
(in a round, whispered)
But sometimes I think about the space my body occupies
But sometimes I think about the space my body occupies
But sometimes I think about the space my body occupies
But sometimes I think about the space my body occupies
From the whispers
Emerges HA YOUNG’s voice
Now having returned to the VOICE from the first act
No longer a dolphin-show host, she whispers:
HA YOUNG
But sometimes I think about the space my body occupies
Here on this island of Manhattan
And what it cost my mother to buy it
Everything she owned
Given away
Traded in
Abandoned
Just so that I could be here
And I want more
I want more
All I want to do
Is cover the island of Manhattan
With my body
My skin stretching out
My bones pulling apart
Covering my neighborhood first
My breasts over Central Park
My belly button casting a long shadow over Midtown
My scalp pulled over Harlem
My feet straddling Brooklyn
And even that’s not enough
It’s not enough
So I keep expanding and expanding
There’s no limit to how far I stretch out
I keep stretching and stretching
Pulled apart infinitely
Until I cover the whole world
My skin becomes the air
And my body becomes the rich earth
Growing barley and rice
Real estate
Real estate
Real estate
Real estate
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Celine Song pushes the bounds of theater with her moving excavation of humanity and love. She peels away historical narrative, challenging audiences to explore what stories remain below the surface, what art is staged, and who gets to tell the story on their own terms. Song writes with an adept eye and ear, examining time and rendering the choral and communal, the singularity of human life.