Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Young Jean Lee

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American playwright Young Jean Lee.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Young Jean Lee

Young Jean Lee is an American playwright, director, and filmmaker. She was the Artistic Director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, a not-for-profit theater company dedicated to producing her work. She has written and directed ten shows for Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to over thirty cities around the world. Lee was called "the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation" by Charles Isherwood in The New York Times and "one of the best experimental playwrights in America" by David Cote in Time Out New York. With the 2018 production of Straight White Men at the Hayes Theater, Lee became the first Asian American woman to have a play produced on Broadway.

Aging and death is what happens to everybody. — © Young Jean Lee
Aging and death is what happens to everybody.
I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.
I feel like I've always been a weirdo. I always grew up with the sense of being a total outsider. I grew up so alienated from other people, and it never went away. When I'm around "normal" people I behave around them as if they are crazy, which makes me seem crazy.
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