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]
- ^ Isherwood, Charles (January 17, 2012). "Untitled Feminist Show". The New York Times.
- ^ David Cote, “The Shipment,” Time Out New York, January 2009
- ^ Paulson, Michael (20 April 2017). "Rebuilding a Broadway Theater With American Voices". New York Times. Retrieved 18 June 2018.