Grace Jung is a stand-up comedian, screenwriter, filmmaker, podcaster and actor based in Los Angeles. She is the author of K-Drama School and appears in season 4 of The Joe Schmo Show on TBS.

Grace and her work have been featured in Time, Publishers Weekly, The Economist, NBC, Quartz, Bustle, LA Review of Books, Salon, Angry Asian Man, Hyphen Magazine, The Korea Times, The Korea Daily, and more.

Grace is an internationally touring stand-up comedian and a regular at The Hollywood Improv. She was named Comic-of-the-Week on the Jackie and Laurie Show, and featured at the Flyover Comedy Festival, DC Comedy Festival, and many others. Grace also performed at The Comedy Store, Caroline’s on Broadway, The Ice House, The Laugh Factory and Zanies.

Grace hosts the weekly comedy podcast K-Drama School which combines K-drama facts, analysis, history and theory. It is available on iTunes, Spotify, and YouTube.

Grace’s award-winning short story Billo was adapted into an animated film that won the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures award in 2009. Grace’s directorial debut J&S Auto was an official selection at the 2022 Maryland Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, Houston Asian American and Pacific Islander Film Festival, and more. Grace produced the feature documentary A-Town Boyz (2023) which is available on Amazon Prime Video. She is currently directing a feature documentary entitled 22 to 33 (in-production). She writes screenplays, teleplays and books regularly.

Grace is a former Fulbright scholar and a recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize. Grace was born in Busan, South Korea and raised in New York. She has an MA and PhD in Film and TV Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her academic works are published in numerous peer-reviewed journals.