Young Jean Lee
American playwright, director and filmmaker / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For people with similar names, see Lee Young-jin (disambiguation).
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]
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Young Jean Lee | |
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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 |
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