Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company (USA)

Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company(YJLTC) is an experimental theatre company that has been developing and producing shows written and directed by Young Jean Lee since 2003. Young Jean Lee is an OBIE award-winning playwright and director who has been called “the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation” by the New York Times and “one of the best experimental playwrights in America” by Time Out New York. Her plays have been published by Theatre Communications Group (“Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven” and “Other Plays”, “The Shipment and Lear”) and by Samuel French (“Three Plays by Young Jean Lee”). She is currently under commission from Plan B/Paramount Pictures, Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Young Jean Lee is a member of New Dramatists and of 13P (Thirteen Playwrights Inc.) and has an MFA from Mac Wellman's playwriting program at Brooklyn College. She has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Creative Capital, NYFA, NEA, NYSCA, the Jerome Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the Rockefeller MAP Foundation. She is also the recipient of two OBIE awards, the Festival Prize of the Zuercher Theater Spektakel, a 2010 Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship.

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