Young Jean Lee
Denning Family Professor of the Arts
Theater and Performance Studies
Bio
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’s the first Asian-American female playwright to have had a play produced on Broadway. 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 a Denning Family Professor in the Arts and Nina C. Crocker Faculty Scholar at Stanford University.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Theater and Performance Studies
Administrative Appointments
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, Stanford Department of Theater and Performance Studies (2023 - Present)
2023-24 Courses
- Dramatic Writing Workshop
TAPS 178C, TAPS 278C (Aut, Win) - Introduction to Theater Practice
TAPS 100, TAPS 211 (Aut, Win) -
Independent Studies (1)
- Senior Project
TAPS 200 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Senior Project
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Prior Year Courses
2022-23 Courses
- Dramatic Writing Workshop
TAPS 178C, TAPS 278C (Win, Spr)
2021-22 Courses
- Playwriting Workshop
TAPS 178C, TAPS 278C (Spr)
- Dramatic Writing Workshop