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Celine Song
Celine Song (born Song Ha-Young; Korean: 송하영; born 19 September 1988) is a Canadian director, playwright, and screenwriter based in New York City. Among her plays are Endlings and The Seagull on The Sims 4 (both 2020). Her directorial film debut, Past Lives (2023), received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Her second film, Materialists, was released in theaters on 13 June 2025.
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. Her mother is an illustrator and graphic designer. She has hinted that her Western name is a reference to Jacques Rivette's 1974 film Céline and Julie Go Boating.
Song wrote her first play, an adaptation of Prometheus, at a classics conference she attended (the Ontario Student Classics Conference) with the Markham District Classics Club.
Song received her undergraduate degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where she studied psychology with a minor in philosophy. She received her MFA in playwriting from Columbia University in 2014.
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 called Endlings "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." The play was chosen for the 2018 O'Neill Playwrights Conference and was a finalist for the 2020 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
In November 2020, Song directed a live production of Chekhov's The Seagull using The Sims 4 on Twitch for New York Theatre Workshop, called The Seagull on The Sims 4. In a review for Vulture, Helen Shaw praised the play: "I think Song's game-play/play-game managed the trick by capturing the experience not of going to a show but of working on one. At her urging, viewers brought the quality of attention that comes with collaboration, and that felt like a churning motor under everything, trying to propel the show into being."
Song's other plays include Tom and Eliza, which was named a semifinalist for the American Playwriting Foundation's 2016 Relentless Award, Family, and The Feast. According to her biography on The Playwright's Realm, "she has been awarded residences, fellowships, and commissions from MTC/Sloan, Sundance, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation."
Song's first television screenwriting job was as a staff writer for the first season of Amazon's The Wheel of Time in 2021.
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Celine Song
Celine Song (born Song Ha-Young; Korean: 송하영; born 19 September 1988) is a Canadian director, playwright, and screenwriter based in New York City. Among her plays are Endlings and The Seagull on The Sims 4 (both 2020). Her directorial film debut, Past Lives (2023), received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Her second film, Materialists, was released in theaters on 13 June 2025.
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. Her mother is an illustrator and graphic designer. She has hinted that her Western name is a reference to Jacques Rivette's 1974 film Céline and Julie Go Boating.
Song wrote her first play, an adaptation of Prometheus, at a classics conference she attended (the Ontario Student Classics Conference) with the Markham District Classics Club.
Song received her undergraduate degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where she studied psychology with a minor in philosophy. She received her MFA in playwriting from Columbia University in 2014.
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 called Endlings "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." The play was chosen for the 2018 O'Neill Playwrights Conference and was a finalist for the 2020 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
In November 2020, Song directed a live production of Chekhov's The Seagull using The Sims 4 on Twitch for New York Theatre Workshop, called The Seagull on The Sims 4. In a review for Vulture, Helen Shaw praised the play: "I think Song's game-play/play-game managed the trick by capturing the experience not of going to a show but of working on one. At her urging, viewers brought the quality of attention that comes with collaboration, and that felt like a churning motor under everything, trying to propel the show into being."
Song's other plays include Tom and Eliza, which was named a semifinalist for the American Playwriting Foundation's 2016 Relentless Award, Family, and The Feast. According to her biography on The Playwright's Realm, "she has been awarded residences, fellowships, and commissions from MTC/Sloan, Sundance, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Edward F. Albee Foundation."
Song's first television screenwriting job was as a staff writer for the first season of Amazon's The Wheel of Time in 2021.