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Young Jean Lee

Young Jean Lee

At The Orchard Project: 2025

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YOUNG JEAN LEE is a playwright, director, and filmmaker 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. She is the first Asian-American female playwright to have had a play produced on Broadway, and she has written and directed ten shows in New York with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company. Her plays have been performed in more than eighty cities around the world and have been published by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French, and Theatre Communications Group. Her short films have been presented at The Locarno International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and BAMcinemaFest. Lee is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two OBIE Awards, a Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a PEN Literary Award, a United States Artists Fellowship, and the Windham-Campbell Prize. She is currently developing an original television series with Made Up Stories, Fifth Season, and CJ ENM America. She is the Denning Family Professor in the Arts at Stanford University.

At The Orchard Project

  1. 2025
    Performance Lab

    The Rising

    When a mother arrives uninvited at her estranged daughter's off-the-grid cabin, their tense night of reckoning takes a horrifying turn.

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