Young Jean Lee

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This is a Korean name; the family name is Lee.
Young Jean Lee
Born (1974-05-30) May 30, 1974
Daegu, South Korea
Period Contemporary
Genres Playwright, director
Literary movement Experimental, Avant-garde
www.youngjeanlee.org
Young Jean Lee
Hangul 이영진
Revised Romanization Yi Yeongjin
McCune–Reischauer Yi Yǒngjin

Young Jean Lee (born 1974) is a Brooklyn-based playwright and director working in experimental theater. She is the artistic director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to producing her work. Lee was called "one of the best experimental playwrights in America" by David Cote in Time Out New York.[1]

Background

Lee was born in South Korea in 1974 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. Immediately after college, Lee entered UC Berkeley’s English PhD program, where she studied Shakespeare for six years. In 2002, she moved to New York to become a playwright. She received an MFA from Mac Wellman's playwriting program at Brooklyn College.[2]

Works

Lee's plays have premiered in New York City at Soho Repertory Theater (Lear,[3] The Appeal[4]), The Kitchen (The Shipment[5]), The Public Theater (Church), P.S. 122 (Church,[6] Pullman, WA[7]), HERE Arts Center (Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven[8]), and the Ontological-Hysteric Theater (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals). Her work has toured venues in Paris, Vienna, Hannover, Berlin, Zurich, Brussels, Budapest, Sydney, Bergen, Oslo, Trondheim, Rotterdam, Salamanca, Toulouse, Chicago, Chapel Hill, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Boston, Williamstown, and Minneapolis. Lee is currently under commission from Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Affiliations

Outside her own company, Lee has worked with Radiohole and the National Theater of the United States of America. She is a member of New Dramatists and 13P, and has been awarded residencies from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, and Hedgebrook.

Publications

Lee's plays have been published in New Downtown Now,[9] an anthology edited with Mac Wellman, Three Plays by Young Jean Lee,[10] American Theatre magazine,[11] Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays,[12] and The Shipment and Lear.[13]

Awards

Lee was a finalist for the 2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for The Shipment,[14] and a recipient of the 2009 Brooklyn College Young Alumni Award, the ZKB Patronage Prize 2007 of the Zürcher Theater Spektakel,[15] the 2007 Emerging Playwright OBIE Award, and a 2010 Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[16] She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.[17]

References

  1. ↑ David Cote, “The Shipment,” Time Out New York, January 2009
  2. ↑ Editors, "Times Topics - Young Jean Lee," The New York Times She was previously married to Los Angeles-based attorney Nicholas F. Daum.
  3. ↑ David Cote, “ LEAR: Father disfigure,” Time Out New York, January 2010.
  4. ↑ David Cote, “The Appeal,” Time Out New York, April 22–29, 2004.
  5. ↑ Charles Isherwood, “Off-Center Refractions of African-American Worlds,” The New York Times, January 2009.
  6. ↑ Jason Zinoman, “Confronting Questions of Faith With a Few New Responses,” The New York Times, May 2007.
  7. ↑ David Cote, “Pullman, WA,” Time Out New York, March 2005
  8. ↑ Anita Gates, “Laugh Now. You May Not When These Women Rule the World,” The New York Times, September 2006.
  9. ↑ New Downtown Now, edited by Mac Wellman and Young Jean Lee, University of Minnesota Press, June 2006
  10. ↑ Three Plays by Young Jean Lee (Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, The Appeal, Pullman, WA), Samuel French, Spring 2006.
  11. ↑ Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven, American Theatre, September 2008.
  12. ↑ Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays, Theatre Communications Group, April 2009.
  13. ↑ The Shipment and Lear, Theatre Communications Group, April 2010.
  14. ↑ "2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist Announced," Susan Smith Blackburn prize website, retrieved April 2, 2010.
  15. ↑ ZKB Prize Zürcher Theater Spektakel
  16. ↑ "AAAL Announces 2010 Literature Award Winners," American Academy of Arts and Letters Website, retrieved April 2, 2010.
  17. ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/17049-young-jean-lee

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