Young Jean Lee is an American playwright,director,and filmmaker. She was the Artistic Director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company,a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to producing her work. She has written and directed ten shows for Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to over thirty cities around the world. Lee was called "the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation" by Charles Isherwood in The New York Times[1] and "one of the best experimental playwrights in America" by David Cote in Time Out New York.[2] With the 2018 production of Straight White Men at the Hayes Theater,Lee became the first Asian American woman to have a play produced on Broadway.[3]
Lee was born in South Korea and moved to the United States when she was two years old. She grew up in Pullman,Washington and attended college at UC Berkeley,where she majored in English[4] and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.[5] Immediately after college,Lee entered UC Berkeley's English Ph.D. program,where she studied Shakespeare for six years before moving to New York to become a playwright. She received an MFA from Mac Wellman's playwriting program at Brooklyn College.[6]
Lee is the granddaughter of Son Chint'ae,the founder of the academic study of folklore in Korea,who was kidnapped to North Korea during the North Korean invasion of 1950.[7]
Her first short film,Here Come the Girls,had its world premiere at the Locarno International Film Festival,its U.S. premiere at the Sundance Film Festival,and its New York premiere at BAMcinemaFest. Two of her other short films--A Meaning Full Life and Reenactment—also had their New York premieres at BAMcinemaFest.[19]
Theatre Communications Group has published all 11 of Lee's plays in four books:Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays;[27]The Shipment and Lear;[28]We're Gonna Die,and Straight White Men/Untitled Feminist Show.[29] Other publications include:Three Plays by Young Jean Lee[30] (Samuel French,Inc.),New Downtown Now[31] (an anthology edited with Mac Wellman),and An Interview with Richard Foreman in American Theatre magazine.[32]
Esser Leopold "Lee" Breuer was an Obie Award-winning and Pulitzer-,Grammy-,Emmy- and Tony-nominated American playwright,theater director,academic,educator,filmmaker,poet,and lyricist. Breuer taught and directed on six continents.
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