Youlim Nam’s GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

 

Returns to the Stage 

at the Chain Theatre Summer One-Act Festival 2026

 

 

New York, NY — Get Out of My Head!!!, a sharply observed new one-act written and directed by Youlim Nam, will be presented at the upcoming Chain Theatre Summer One-Act Festival in New York City. The staging marks Nam’s fourth production selected by the Chain Theatre within a single year—following Just a Yellow Cab in New York City (2025 Winter Festival), Last Birthday (2025 Summer Festival), and David’s New Year (2026 Winter Festival)— underscoring her steady presence and rising voice in contemporary New York theater.

 

Get Out of My Head!!! arrives with a rich development history. Written by Nam in 2020, the piece was first brought to life as an audio drama on the podcast No Pressure, It’s Just a Short Play, then presented as a virtual theater work in The Equity Library Theater of New York’s Summer 2021 Virtual Play Festival. In August 2024, the play made its on-stage debut as part of a short-play festival presented by The Woodside Players of Queens at the Queens Public Library, Astoria Branch, under Nam’s direction. Its 2026 Chain Theatre staging reunites the work with one of the city’s most active homes for new short plays. 

 

The production stars Han Na Shin (Vogue Magazine, Maybelline) under Nam’s direction, and is co-produced by Micah Rembrandt. 

 

SYNOPSIS: A woman sits with herself and tries to make sense of her own recent, out-of-character behavior. As she retraces what she has said and done, the play quietly maps that disorienting, exhilarating, and slightly embarrassing state of having fallen for someone entirely unexpected—a feeling anyone who has lost a little control of their own heart will recognize. Funny, intimate, and unguarded, Get Out of My Head!!! turns one person’s private spiral into a shared, deeply human moment.

 

“At its heart, this play is an invitation — to recognize ourselves in our most painfully private moments of longing.” says Nam. “My goal is to take that deeply human experience of yearning for someone out of reach and bring it into the light, where it becomes something we can laugh about together, without diminishing how real it feels."

 

ABOUT the Chain Theatre One-Act Festival The Chain Theatre One-Act Festival is a bi-annual celebration—held each Summer and Winter—of bold, original short plays by emerging and established artists. Recently featured in TDF’s “15 Summer Theatre Festivals to See in NYC,” the festival transforms Chain Theatre’s stages into a vibrant showcase of new work. 

 

ABOUT Youlim Nam (Playwright/Director/Producer)

YOULIM NAM is a New York City-based multidisciplinary artist from Seoul, Korea, working across theater, film, and performance as an actor, playwright, producer and director. Her original work has been presented at venues including Chain Theatre, HB Playwright Theatre, Gene Frankel Theatre, and Theatre Row. In 2026, she was selected a Resident Artist at HB Studio with her her bilingual full-length play New Year's Day (Sae Hae), and an Artist-in-Residence at the Six Viewpoints Institute Residency at Salisbury University. Her honors include the City Artist Corps Grant, a Ma-Yi Theater Company Micro-Grant, and Best Actress at the International Independent Short Awards. Nam is a member of Actors' Equity Association, the Dramatists Guild of America, and Axial Theatre. youlimnam.com

 

ABOUT Han Na Shin (Actor)

Han Na Shin is a Korean-born actor and model from Michigan, now based in New York City. She has appeared in Vogue and Blanc magazines and has worked on commercial campaigns for brands such as Maybelline, Flamingo, and On Running. Han Na made her acting debut in the short film Gonggi, a Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist, followed by Just a Yellow Cab in New York City at Theatre Row with Pan Asian Rep, written by Youlim Nam. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and studied acting at The Barrow Group. 

 

ABOUT Micah Rembrandt (Co-Producer)

Micah Rembrandt lives in Brooklyn with his fiancée. He is a student, drummer, investor, and patron of the arts. 

 

PERFORMANCE DETAILS

Part of: Chain Theatre Summer One-Act Festival, Program #14

 

Dates: 

•Saturday, July 18 at 8:00 PM

•Wednesday, July 22 at 6:30 PM

•Friday, July 31 at 8:30 PM

 

Venue: Chain Theatre, 312 West 36th St, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10018

Tickets: chaintheatre.org/2026-summer-oneact-festival/block-14

Price: $24 online/ $27 at the door

Discount Code: OUT26 *only valid for online purchase