Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company
2010 Swing Space Resident, Building 110: LMCC’s Arts Center At Governors Island
Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company (YJLTC) creates and produces new, experimental performances for theater that are written and directed by Young Jean Lee in collaboration with company members from diverse backgrounds. YJLTC deals with major issues such as race and religion in such unpredictable and complicated ways that they stick in people’s minds and challenge them to think rather than reaffirming their pre-existing beliefs, whatever those might be. YJLTC’s works have been funded by grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Rockefeller MAP Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the Tobin Foundation for Theatre Arts, the Norman Bel Geddes Foundation, the Creative Capital Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Since 2003, YJLTC has presented Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, The Appeal at Soho Rep, Pullman, WA at P.S. 122, Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven at HERE Arts Center, CHURCH at P.S. 122 and the Public Theater/Under the Radar Festival (the show subsequently toured to Minneapolis), and most recently, The Shipment at The Kitchen. YJLTC’s works have toured to over 20 venues around the world. The company was awarded the ZKB “Best in Festival” Patronage Prize 2007 of the Zuercher Theater Spektakel and Young Jean Lee has been awarded the OBIE Award for Emerging Playwright. Theatre Communications Group has published a collection of all of YJLTC’s plays to date in Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays. In January 2010, YJLTC will present an adaptation of King Lear at Soho Rep. Young Jean Lee is currently under commission by Playwrights Horizons to write a new musical with songs by Mike Doughty. YJLTC is also developing new projects with Lincoln Center Theater and St. Ann’s Warehouse.
At Swing Space, YJLTC will be developing it's new work, an adaptation of King Lear written and directed by Young Jean Lee. The show will premiere on the mainstage of Soho Rep in January 2010.
