Joel Kim Booster

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It was a full Jeb Bush moment.

And no one does.

And it was I couldn't have asked for a better video of our engagement because it was so funny.

It was really, really good.

Sunset, like, yeah, on the island of my birth.

Yeah, the whole nine.

And it was more fitting that it happened the way it happened, for sure.

Yeah, no, I mean, so I moved to Chicago after college because I wanted to be a playwright and a storefront theater actor.

And I wanted to be, I loved the theater scene.

I still love the theater scene in Chicago.

I think it's one of the best theater scenes in the country, if not the best.

There's so much access to so much different kind of theater.

And again, it came, Chicago comes with the DIY spirit of like, we'll just put it on ourselves and we'll find a storefront and we'll just do it.

And that was the background that I was coming from from my school.

And so my first full-length play was accepted into the Chicago Fringe Fest after college.

I moved to Chicago to do that, joined a theater company very quickly there, and was working on a play called Five Lesbians Eating a Quiche as a writing assistant.

This theater company that I was part of, which was then called The New Colony, I believe they have now since changed the name for obvious reasons.

and um they the the thing they only did new work they only developed and did new work and that was really exciting for me so i was a writing assistant on that show and beth stelling who's a very very prominent comedian um who's still working today um was in that play she was also sort of splitting her time she was mostly a comedian she was a very big deal in chicago at the time