WE'RE GONNA DIE
we're gonna die
Produced by 
in association with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company
- Written and performed by Young Jean Lee (P#11)
- Music by Future Wife
- Music Direction by Tim Simmonds
- Choreography by Faye Driscoll
- Directed by Paul Lazar
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A special message from Lou Reed
With her band Future Wife, playwright Young Jean Lee takes the stage in a life-affirming show that anyone could perform, about the thing everyone has in common: We're gonna die. You may be miserable, but you won’t be alone.
Future Wife is
- Mike Hanf
- Nick Jenkins
- Ben Kupstas
- Young Jean Lee
- Tim Simmonds
- Costume Design by Roxana Ramseur
- Dramaturgy by Mike Farry
- Creative Consultant Eric Dyer
- Production Supervisor Sunny Stapleton
- Assistant Directors Kate Gagnon and Rachel Karp
- Associate Director Morgan Gould
- Produced by Caleb Hammons
"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
"Enormously touching ... Lee purchases our hearts with her bravery's own coin."
— Helen Shaw, Time Out New York
"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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PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Joe's Pub at the Public Theater
April 1-30, 2011
WE’RE GONNA DIE was developed in part through a residency at the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, and through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space program (space at 14 Wall Street is donated by Capstone Equities), and is presented with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Photos by Blaine Davis
