Young Jean Lee
Young Jean Lee | |
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_interviewed_by_Crowded_Fire_artistic_director_Mina_Morita.jpg) Lee (right) interviewed by Mina Morita, 2019 | |
| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) Daegu, South Korea |
| Occupation | Playwright, director, filmmaker |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Brooklyn College (MFA) |
| Period | Contemporary |
| Literary movement | Experimental, Avant-garde |
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| Young Jean Lee | |
| Hangul | 이영진 |
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| Revised Romanization | I Yeongjin |
| McCune–Reischauer | I Yŏngjin |
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]
Background
Lee was born in South Korea and moved to the United States when she was two years old. She grew up in
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]
Works
Theater
Lee's plays have been presented in
Plays
FilmHer 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]
MusicHer band, Future Wife, released their debut album, We’re Gonna Die, in 2013.[20] The band features members of various New York projects, including Cloud Becomes Your Hand, San Fermin, Field Guides, and Landlady.[21] The album also features monologues performed by Adam Horovitz (Beastie Boys), Kathleen Hanna (Bikini Kill), Sarah Neufeld (Arcade Fire), Martin Schmidt and Drew Daniel (Matmos), Colin Stetson, David Byrne (Talking Heads), and Laurie Anderson.[22] Young Jean Lee and Future Wife performed the show, We're Gonna Die, with David Byrne at his Meltdown Festival in London (Southbank Centre) in August 2015.[23] The Velvet Underground's Lou Reed described Lee as, "One of the most accomplished, articulate, versatile, and hilarious playwrights, musicians, and artists that we in America have to offer."[24] AffiliationsOutside her own company, Lee has worked with MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, Hedgebrook, the Park Avenue Armory, Orchard Project, HERE Arts Center , and Brooklyn Arts Exchange.
Lee is currently a Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford University.[25][26] PublicationsAmerican Theatre magazine.[32]
AwardsLee is the recipient of a Jerome Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Arts Presenters/Ford Foundation Creative Capacity Grant, the Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation, and the New England Foundation for the Arts : National Theater Project Award.
References
External links Wikiquote has quotations related to Young Jean Lee.
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