This play explores the themes of memory, the emotional bond between mother and child, and a Korean cultural concept of Chung.
According to Julia Cho, herself in her interview with LA Times, Chung is “what exists between people who are so closely bonded that, for better or worse, each is essential to the other’s achieving full self-hood.”[2] Before the official premier, 99 Histories was presented as a staged reading at Mark Taper Forum (2001), Sundance Institute Theatre Lab (2001), New York Theatre Workshop (2002), and South Coast Repertory's Pacific Playwrights Festival (2002).
[3] It premiered at Roundabout Theater Company directed by Mark Brokaw in 2010, and was staged at National Theatre Studio by Andrea Ferran in 2013.
Cho writes specifically about Gina's attempts to converse with Dennis and convince him to attend her office hours.
She focuses on the discussion of identity issues through dramaturgically assigning roles that food serves in increasing accessibility of the conversation as a whole.
Julia Cho explores the concept of childhood and adulthood through the narratives of Panny's first-year experience at a high school.
As a screenwriter, Cho has written for the television series Big Love[5] and Fringe, along with the animated film Turning Red.
Another example is Nora, the female protagonist of The Architecture of Loss, who immigrated to the United States following her marriage to an American soldier.