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Seoul Babe of Loud Mouth Asian Babes, Jean Yoon was born in Illinois, and raised in Toronto. She has lived and worked in Vancouver, Edmonton, Yanji City and Harbin City in Northeastern China, and now makes Toronto her home.

Jean is the founding Artistic Director, using LMAB as a quick and dirty means of getting work up and out there. She was Cross Cultural Coordinator for Theatre Ontario (1991/92), Co-Artistic Director of Cahoots Theatre Projects (1992-1994), and has served on advisories to various theatre companies, arts service organizations as well as on juries for arts councils and government funders to the arts.

Jean's poetry and fiction has been published in magazines and anthologies such as Fireweed, The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry, what! magazine and more recently in HardKore/Squint.

As an actor, Jean has been seen on stage recently in Jane Luk's The Fabulous Smokey Topaz Multimedia Extravaganza (Toronto Fringe 99). Other credits include: Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Civilized Theatre), Noran Bang: The Yellow Room (Cahoots Theatre Projects), Blessings (Tarragon Theatre), as well as in productions by Die in Debt Theatre, Young People's Theatre, and Theatre Wum. Film & TV credits include Keith Lock's A Brighter Moon, Waking the Dead, Forget Me Never, In the Company of Spies, and La Femme Nikita. Jean is represented by Kishwar Iqbal of Gary Goddard and Associates.

Jean's playwrighting credits include Sliding for Home & Borders, part of The Kyopo Trilogy, and The Yoko Ono Project, to be produced by Theatre Passe Muraille and LMAB in January, 2000.

"Intriguingly original and appealingly offbeat!" -- Variety

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