Kristine Haruna Lee
Latest News on Kristine Haruna Lee:
RSVP Will Return To The Norwood in March (Mar 2, 2020)
Baltimore Center Stage Announces Cast and Artistic Team for MEN ON BOATS (Nov 22, 2019)
Baltimore Center Stage Announces Cast and Artistic Team For MEN ON BOATS (Oct 30, 2019)
RSVP Will Return To The Norwood in March (Mar 2, 2020)
Baltimore Center Stage Announces Cast and Artistic Team for MEN ON BOATS (Nov 22, 2019)
Baltimore Center Stage Announces Cast and Artistic Team For MEN ON BOATS (Oct 30, 2019)
Kristine Haruna Lee BIO
Kristine Haruna Lee was born in Hong Kong, raised between Tokyo and Seattle, and is now a Brooklyn-based theater maker whose work navigates non-linear playwriting, auto-theoretical performance text, and promoting arts activism and emergent strategies for the theater through ethical and process-based collaborations. Her experimentation with language is often a portrayal of personal and collective experiences operating within cross-cultural memory and consciousness, and the conflicts that arise when dealing with plurality, desires, and fragmentation of racialized, gendered, and sexual identities. With her theater company harunalee, she utilizes handmade and craft objects to create visually stunning and visceral performances that meditate on the more disruptive bodies of thought that sit within one's deeper, psychic spaces. Since 2010, Lee has created six original works with harunalee that have been hailed by the New York Times as, ?full of impulses and ideas, and splendid, fractious energy?. Memory Retrograde, an exploration of one couple?s past-life regressions through vast expanses of generations and landscapes revealing how memory and trauma is racialized, gendered, and fallible over time, was developed at Brooklyn Arts Exchange (2015-2017), Ars Nova Maker?s Lab (2017), and was part of The Public?s Under The Radar Festival Incoming! Series (2018). With to the left of the pantry and under the sugar shack, harunalee created an immersive and visual installation-based piece inspired by The Art of Memory by Francis Yates and the concept of the Memory Palace, which showcased 40+ artists and scientists who presented new works inspired by individual memories collected by the company, and had its world premiere at La MaMa Club (2016). War Lesbian, described as ?Moving and revelatory? by Stage Buddy, is a queer experimental play with music based on Inuit mythology and F.T. Martinelli?s Futurist Manifesto, which had its world premiere at Dixon Place as part of the Mondo Cane! Commission & Residency (2014 Time Out NY LGBT Critic?s Pick). Her play Suicide Forest directed by Aya Ogawa, an investigation of how Japanese suicide has symbolically permeated the playwright's transcultural and social identities, will receive a world premiere at The Bushwick Starr (2019). Lee is a recipient of the Map Fund Grant, Lotos Foundation Prize for Directing, the New Dramatist Van Lier Fellowship, and was a member of The Public?s Devised Theater Working Group and P73 Interstate 73 Writer?s Group. She has received foundational support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Mental Insight Foundation, LMCC, and Indie Theater Fund. Lee has also received development opportunities with Drop Forge and Tool, Space on Ryder Farm, Little Theater, Prelude Festival, York College, Food For Thought/Danspace, and Asian American Writer?s Workshop, and has held residencies and commissions with Ars Nova Maker?s Lab, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dixon Place, and Bushwick Starr Propeller Project Series. She is currently a part of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab with collaborator Jen Goma and is an affiliated artist with New Georges and Wook Taut Majesty. Lee teaches playwriting and performance at NYU Experimental Theater Wing, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, PACE University, York College, and Abrons Arts Center. Her work is published by 53rd State Press, including Suicide Forest and writings in Occasional No. 2. She is committed to organizing arts activism that engages her theater community with ?ethical collaborations?, promoting the responsibility of individual artists, institutions, and companies working together to create a more equitable and transparent practice that begins by holding one another accountable. You can find harunalee?s statement on equity and ethical collaborations here. Lee holds an MFA from Brooklyn College for Playwriting where she studied with Mac Wellman and Erin Courtney, and a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts Experimental Theater Wing.
Kristine Haruna Lee Awards and Nominations
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Obie Awards - 2020 - Playwriting Award
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Kristine Haruna Lee News
RSVP Will Return To The Norwood in March
New York-based producers Jason Jude Hill and Daniel Sears of Grumpy Entertainment have announced the master of ceremonies and performers for their show-within-a-party concept, RSVP, coming to the Norwood club on March 19, 2020. RSVP is at the forefront of modern-day variety shows which makes it a unique experience for all those who attend. Performances run the gamut of genres and talents and since there is no 'stage', performances happen all around the room. This party, which sold out in February 2020, set within the sumptuous setting of the Norwood club is made complete with games and prizes, specialty cocktails, and the RSVP's signature group karaoke number at the end of the party.
Baltimore Center Stage Announces Cast and Artistic Team for MEN ON BOATS
Baltimore Center Stage is pleased to announce the cast and artistic team for Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus. This rollicking comedy is history as you've never seen it beforea?"without a single man in sight. Join a team of explorers as they tell the true(ish) story of a?oediscoverya?? of the Grand Canyon and upend everything...including their boats.
Baltimore Center Stage Announces Cast and Artistic Team For MEN ON BOATS
Baltimore Center Stage is pleased to announce the cast and artistic team for Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus. This rollicking comedy is history as you've never seen it beforea?"without a single man in sight. Join a team of explorers as they tell the true(ish) story of a?oediscoverya?? of the Grand Canyon and upend everythinga??including their boats.
Photo Flash: The Flea Hosts Mac Wellman Symposium
The Flea Theater hosted a Mac Wellman Symposium: THE ART OF STACKING THE DECK October 4-6, 2019. The three-day symposium was a rare opportunity for Wellman enthusiasts to gather to share stories and dig deep into the mysteries of Wellman's writing.
RSVP Heats Up The Norwood Club For Three Nights This Fall
New York-based producers Jason Jude Hill and Daniel Sears of Grumpy Entertainment are thrilled to announce a three-performance run of RSVP at The Norwood Club.
Ralph Lee's RINGDOVE Announced At St. John The Divine
Mettawee River Theatre Company Returns To St. John The Divine With The Ringdove.
Ma-Yi Theater Company Announces 30th Anniversary Season
Since its founding in 1989, Ma-Yi Theater Company has distinguished itself as one of the country's leading incubators of new work shaping the national discourse about what it means to be Asian American today. Building on the recent success of the Lortel Award-winner KPOP and Mike Lew's Teenage Dick, Ma-Yi is pleased to announce programming for its 30th anniversary season.
A4 Launches Theater Career Roundtable Event 6/25
The Asian American Arts Alliance announces the launch of a new initiative to support Asian Americans pursuing careers in the arts. Table Dish, A4's new professional development series, will bring experts in specific disciplines together with aspiring professionals in a roundtable setting to answer questions, provide advice, and create networking and mentoring opportunities.
The Bushwick Starr Presents CABIN
The Bushwick Starr presents the world premiere of CABIN,the latest from Bessie nominated Sean Donovan (The Reception at HERE, House/Divided at BAM), with original compositions by Obie Award winner Heather Christian (Animal Wisdom at The Bushwick Starr, The World is Round at BAM).
Aya Lana + Jess Jupiter and Lauren DiGiulio to Curate CPR's New Voices in Live Performance Series
CPR - Center for Performance Research announces the curators for its 2019 New Voices in Live Performance series: Aya Lana + Jess Jupiter and Lauren DiGiulio.
Minor Theater Returns To Abrons Arts Center In June With World Premiere Of PATHETIC
Abrons Arts Center presents the world premiere of Minor Theater's PATHETIC, a teen-drama riff on Racine's Phedre. PATHETIC marks the much- anticipated return of Minor Theater to Abrons Arts Center after 2017's sold-out horror hit, THE TERRIFYING. OBIE Award-winning playwright Julia Jarcho directs this take on the classic tragedy of female desire. Tickets are available now for the production which will run from June 5th-23rd in the Abrons Arts Center (466 Grand Street, Manhattan).
Kristine Haruna Lee's SUICIDE FOREST Extends
The Bushwick Starr collaborates with Ma-Yi Theater Company in presenting the world premiere of Suicide Forest by award-winning playwright and performer Kristine Haruna Lee (Memory Retrograde at The Public Theater with Under the Radar and Ars Nova, War Lesbian at Dixon Place), directed by Aya Ogawa (Ludic Proxy produced by The Play Company at Walker Space, The Nosebleed at The Public Theater with Under the Radar).
Zoe Kazan, Paul Dano, and More Among Presenters and Performers at Soho Rep's 2019 Spring Fete
Soho Rep., which provides a platform for vastly diverse artists to realize their boldest visions, in productions that are regularly among the most ambitious and acclaimed offerings of the theater season, will convene many of its collaborators and supporters at its 2019 Spring Fete, Monday, April 8, at Tribeca Rooftop (2 Desbrosses Street, New York, NY 10013).
Kristine Haruna Lee's SUICIDE FOREST Comes to The Bushwick Starr
The Bushwick Starr is thrilled to collaborate with Ma-Yi Theater Company in presenting the world premiere of Suicide Forest by award-winning playwright and performer Kristine Haruna Lee (Memory Retrograde at The Public Theater with Under the Radar and Ars Nova, War Lesbian at Dixon Place), directed by Aya Ogawa (Ludic Proxy produced by The Play Company at Walker Space, The Nosebleed at The Public Theater with Under the Radar).
Tickets Now On Sale For Kristine Haruna Lee's SUICIDE FOREST
The Bushwick Starr will collaborate with Ma-Yi Theater Company in presenting the world premiere of Suicide Forest by award-winning playwright and performer Kristine Haruna Lee (Memory Retrograde at The Public Theater with Under the Radar and Ars Nova, War Lesbian at Dixon Place), directed by Aya Ogawa (Ludic Proxy produced by The Play Company at Walker Space, The Nosebleed at The Public Theater with Under the Radar).
RSVP (Real Sexy Variety Party) Comes to Arlo NoMad
New York based producers Jason Jude Hill and Daniel Sears of GrumpyFilms & Productions are announcing winter/spring 2019 RSVP at Arlo dates with brand new line-ups.
The Bushwick Starr Presents Kristine Haruna Lee's SUICIDE FOREST
The Bushwick Starr is thrilled to collaborate with Ma-Yi Theater Company in presenting the world premiere of Suicide Forest by award-winning playwright and performer Kristine Haruna Lee (Memory Retrograde at The Public Theater with Under the Radar and Ars Nova, War Lesbian at Dixon Place), directed by Aya Ogawa (Ludic Proxy produced by The Play Company at Walker Space, The Nosebleed at The Public Theater with Under the Radar).
Japan Society Presents Performing Arts Program Lecture 'Suicide Culture & Its Influences On Artists'
Japan Society, through its Performing Arts Program, presents a lecture that looks at how the subject of Japanese suicide been expressed through the arts both inside and outside of Japan.
Soho Rep. Announces Writer/Director Lab Week
The 2017-2019 Lab Culminates with Free Presentations from Collaborative Partners Shayok Misha Chowdhury & Virginia Grise, Ann Marie Dorr & Paul Ketchum, Jen Goma & Kristine Haruna Lee, Raja Feather Kelly & Daaimah Mubashshir, and Julia Mounsey & Peter Mills Weiss
2018 Fall Season Announced at The Segal Center
The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY RA present the fifteenth annual PRELUDE Festival. Dedicated to artists at the forefront of contemporary New York City theatre and performance, PRELUDE 2018 features an array of artists working in theatrical and interdisciplinary performance. The festival gives audiences and artists a survey of the current New York moment via in-process performances, conversations, presentations, and workshops-all completely free and open to the public. Featuring Pig Iron Theatre Company, Kristine Haruna Lee & Aya Ogawa, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Julia May Jonas & Sarah Hughes, and many more. For full lineup and schedule: www.preludenyc.org
Kristine Haruna Lee FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What awards has Kristine Haruna Lee been nominated for?
Kristine Haruna Lee has been nominated for the Playwriting Award at the Obie Awards for "Suicide Forest."
What awards has Kristine Haruna Lee won?
Kristine Haruna Lee has won the Playwriting Award at the Obie Awards for Suicide Forest.
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