page_title: Young Jean Lee
hierarchical_section_title: Young Jean Lee
caption_attribution_description: English: Young Jean Lee (right) interviewed by Crowded Fire artistic director Mina Morita at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center on Feb. 5, 2019.
context_page_description: Young Jean Lee is a Korean-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 and "one of the best experimental playwrights in America" by David Cote in Time Out New York. 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.
context_section_description: Young Jean Lee is a Korean-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 and "one of the best experimental playwrights in America" by David Cote in Time Out New York. 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.
caption: Young Jean Lee (right) interviewed at the San Francisco JCC by Crowded Fire Theater artistic director Mina Morita
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