Lee Bong-ryun

Lee Bong-ryun was born as Lee Jeong-eun on February 7, 1981, in Pohang, North Gyeongsang, where her father's workplace Pohang Steelworks is located, and lived there until age sixteen. Lee dropped out of high school in Pohang after only a month due to feeling bored. She then moved to Daegu and attended an academy for eight months before deciding to take the GED. At the age of 17, she enrolled in Daegu Arts University, where she studied photography. Later, she pursued a Master's Degree in Photography at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, which she completed at the age of 24. Her stage name was originally Zhuge Bong-ryeon, which she used for her photography exhibitions.Around 2003, Lee watched a musical called 'Sing in the Rain' and was impressed by Park Dong-ha's performance. As a result, she applied to the musical department in a social education center at a university near her home and attended night classes for about two years. During this time, her stage director and instructor, Kim Dong-yeon, asked her to assist him as a director for his play Fantasy Fairy Tale. In 2005, Lee made her acting debut in the musical Five Drawings of Love. Initially, she was an understudy, but when an actor was absent for a month, she took the stage. Since then, she has performed in a variety of plays and musicals. Since then, she has appeared in various plays and musicals. In 2008, Lee saw Lee Jung-eun's portrayal of a grandmother in the musical Laundry and was inspired to audition for the same role in the following season. She successfully won the role and went on to perform in the musical for three years. In 2012, Lee starred in a youth drama called "Red Bus," which was written and directed by Park Geun-hyung. Following this, she joined the Alleyway theater company led by director Park and appeared in several productions, including "Ode to Youth," "Manchurian Front," and "Press Guide." In the play "Ode to Youth," Lee played the role of a waitress at a coffee shop who suffered from epilepsy. In 2017, Lee joined musical "Heavy Metal Girls". Followed by appearance as Katya in Korean premiere of play "Valentine's Day", a representative work released in 2009 by the Golden Mask Award-winning artist Ivan Vymilfayev, at Jayu Small Theater until January 14, 2018. In 2017 Lee signed exclusive contract with C-JeS Entertainment. In December 2018, Creative Table Quartz confirmed the appearance of actors Kim Jin-soo and Lee Bong-ryun in the Korean premiere of one-man play Everything Shines on Me. The play is Duncan McMillan's original work, that was participating in various overseas festivals, including Edinburgh and Perth in Australia, starting with the 2013 Lurdle Fringe Festival. It has been evaluated by The Guardian as “no more praise to say.”