Nathan Joe returns to the podcast in conversation with Nahyeon Lee. They’ve been described as “filmmakers, theatre-makers and sometimes collaborators” and here they catch up on where they’re at creatively, their hot-takes on community, what they’re dreaming of next, spirituality and more.

About Nahyeon:
Nahyeon is a writer, director and theatre producer of Korean descent based in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. She has a Master of Arts in Drama Directing in Screen Production from the University of Auckland (First Class Hons) and has since embedded herself in stage and screen projects that strive to dismantle the hegemony - in narratives about identity through genre and in form.

➡️ Nahyeon’s work: https://www.punctum.co.nz/ and https://www.nahyeonlee.co.nz/
➡️ Follow Nahyeon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nahyeonleee

About Nathan:Nathan Joe 周润豪 is an award-winning playwright, dramaturg and performance poet - born and raised in Ōtautahi. He is an incoming MFA playwriting candidate at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, and a 2025 Fulbright grantee.

➡️ Nathan’s work: https://nathanjoe.com/
➡️ Follow Nathan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yellowperilproductions/

About the podcast:
Asian in Aotearoa is a podcast of conversations of Asian creatives, founded in 2020 by Jenna Wee in Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland.

Follow Asian in Aotearoa on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asianinaotearoa/

Visit asianinaotearoa.com

This episode was made possible thanks to Foundation North and Creative New Zealand.