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UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW
The newest work from Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, conceived and directed by Young Jean Lee is coming your way in January!
UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW will have its World Premiere at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) in January 2012, followed by the NYC premiere Co-presented by Baryshnikov Arts Center and Performance Space 122 as part of COIL 2012. The project was recently awarded the 2012 Spalding Gray Award.
UFMTS was initially developed in residency at the New Museum in NYC in December 2010. The show continued its development at Mount Tremper Arts in Mount Tremper, NY in August 2011, Baryshnikov Arts Center in NYC in September 2011 and is currently in residence at The Park Avenue Armory in NYC.
WE'RE GONNA DIE
Young Jean Lee wins an Obie for WE'RE GONNA DIE! Click here to read the official announcement.
Click here to watch the show online.
Click here to listen to some tracks.
Click here to view audience responses.
"Sly, weird and thoroughly winning ... Its forthright acknowledgement that life can be a rough business is bracing, funny and, yes, consoling." CRITICS' PICK
— Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
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"Enormously touching ... Lee purchases our hearts with her bravery's own coin."
— Helen Shaw, Time Out New York
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"We're all gonna die. But not, if you're lucky, before discovering artists like Young Jean Lee."
— Michael Giltz, Huffington Post
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The new show written and performed by Young Jean Lee, music by and featuring Future Wife, and directed by Paul Lazar.
DEMO TRACK RELEASED
Young Jean and Future Wife release I'm Gonna Die, a demo track (and a remix by Mr. Jenkins) from WE'RE GONNA DIE.
YOUNG JEAN LEE named a
2011 GUGGENHEIM FELLOW
On April 7, 2011, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded 180 Fellowships to a diverse group of scholars, artists, and scientists in its eighty-seventh annual competition for the United States and Canada. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.
