FOUNDERS

KIM SCHROEDER (Kim Hyman)

Kim is a Seoul based performer who works full time doing children's musical theatre. Hailing from the sunny city of Cape Town, where she graduated with a Degree in Drama, Film and Media, she has been fully active in the Seoul expat arts community for the last two years, serving on the board of directors for Seoul Players as well as performing with Seoul Shakespeare Company. 

ALAMEEN

Alameen is a Nigerian actor, director, playwright. As an active member in the Seoul expat theater community since 2016, he has participated in numerous productions in different capacities. First, as an actor with Seoul Shakespeare Company, and then as a director with Seoul Players and Starlight Productions. He directed two plays for Seoul Players’ 10-Minute Play Festival, one of which garnered the top award. He returned to the festival this year as a director, actor, and writer.

Visit his website to learn more about him.

RAY SALCEDO

Ray, (MA/ABD, Drama/Literature, UCSD) is an award-winning director and playwright and Associate Teaching Professor at Seoul National University. He has directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Titus Andronicus for Seoul Shakespeare Company and has written a few plays for Seoul Players, including last year’s one-act Rent, Boy. He is one of the co-founders of The Collective. 

BOARD MEMBERS

ALLYSON SAVAL

Ally was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Before moving to South Korea, she lived in Jersey City and worked as Deck Crew for four productions in the New York Musical Festival, including The Gold and The Fourth Messenger, and Off Broadway on Playwrights Horizon's production of A Life. As a member of The Collective, Ally stage managed Romeo and Juliet and co-produced “Stories from Below.”

MALLORY DOWD

The newest addition to The Collective’s board, Mallory (MSW) is a writer, performer, artist, teacher, and professional intuitive tarot reader. She has produced, directed, and performed in a number of Seoul Players productions. Mallory won Best Actor in a Comedy for her performance at the Gwangju Performance Project’s Pen In Ten Festival. Visit her website for information about her intuitive offerings.