Whitney Pak

Biography

Whitney Tenney Pak is an educator, performer, director and producer. She is a founding member and associate artistic director of Circle Squared Collective, a bicoastal theatre collaborative based in Syracuse and Southern California.

She taught for several years in the departments of theatre and communication studies at California State University, Los Angeles while producing and performing in several seasons of original devised community-based theatre in Los Angeles, Circle Squared Collective and other companies. She most recently served as director of the theatre program at Cantwell-Sacred Heart of Mary High School, where she was able to serve the community of Montebello, California, as both a teaching artist, director of shows for the high school and director of the Children’s Summer Stage program hosted through CSHM.

She currently works in collaboration with the education department at Syracuse Stage, having directed the Summer Youth Theatre Experience and taught a session of fall classes. She is also currently collaborating on the upcoming remotely devised theatre piece “This Land” with Circle Squared Collective.

Education

• M.F.A., M.A., California State University, Los Angeles
• B.A., Connecticut College