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Young Jean Lee Lear

Young Jean Lee

Young Jean Lee’s plays include The Shipment, CHURCH, Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Pullman, WA. They have been presented in New York at The Kitchen, The Public Theater, P.S. 122, HERE Arts Center, Soho Rep and the Ontological-Hysterical Theater, and have toured throughout the U.S. and Europe. Lee is a member of New Dramatists and 13P. Her plays have been published in Three Plays by Young Jean Lee, New Downtown Now, American Theatre magazine and her forthcoming Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays. Lee is the recipient of grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, the Jerome Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation and NYSCA, as well as a 2007 Emerging Playwright Obie Award.

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Awards & Accomplishments

  • 2011

    Award

    Lee receives Guggenheim Fellowship

  • 2011

    Documentary

    Lee is featured in online documentary series, MADE HERE, following the working lives of New York-based performance artists

  • 2010

    Publication

    Young Jean Lee’s THE SHIPMENT and LEAR is published by Theatre Communications Group

  • 2010

    Residency

    Young Jean Lee’s Theatre Company has residency at the New Museum in New York

  • 2010

    Award

    Young Jean Lee receives Prize in Literature from American Academy of Arts and Letters

  • 2009

    Publication

    TCG publishes a collection of Lee’s plays entitled Songs of the Dragon Flying to Heaven and Other Plays

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