Young Jean Lee's Theater Company

Biography

Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company is an experimental theater company that has been developing and producing shows written and directed by Young Jean Lee since 2003.
 

Young Jean Lee is a writer, director and filmmaker. The New York Times has described her as “the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation.” Her shows are staged by Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, which she founded. Her plays have been published by the Theatre Communications Group and Samuel French. Lee is currently under contract at the Lincoln Center Theater, at Playwrights Horizons, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as well as at Plan B/Paramount Pictures. For the latter she is working on a screenplay. She is a member of the New Dramatists and of 13P (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.) and graduated from the famous programme for playwrights at Brooklyn College with Mac Wellman. Young Jean Lee’s works have won numerous awards, including two OBIEs, the most important American off-Broadway theatre award, and the festival prize at Zurich's Theater Spektakel. In 2010 she received the literature prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 2011 a Guggenheim Fellowship an in 2012 the Doris Duke Artist Award. She is currently 'artist in residence' at the renowned Wooster Group. Her first short film “Here Come the Girls” was recently presented at the International Film Festival in Locarno as well as at the Sundance Film Festival and the BAMcinema Fest. In addition, Lee has released “We're Gonna Die”, the debut album of her band Future Wife. Her last appearance at HAU Hebbel am Ufer was with “Untitled Feminist Show” in 2013 as part of the festival “Precarious Bodies”.