Young Jean Lee & Richard Maxwell
from BOMBLive! Hosted by BOMB Magazine
Young Jean Lee, a New York City–based playwright with her own internationally-touring company—Young Jean Lee's Theater Company—won the 2007 OBIE Award for an emerging playwright. Her shows include The Shipment, Church, and Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven. Known for her provocative, disorienting spin on familiar subjects, she has taken on topics ranging from Asian-American identity politics to Evangelical Christianity. Describing her process, Lee has written, When starting a play, I ask myself, What’s the last play in the world I would ever want to write? Then I force myself to write it. Lee has recently won grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Rockefeller MAP Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Lee is interviewed by Richard Maxwell, one of New York City's most active and discussed playwrights. His postdramatic plays have been considered by the New York Times to be hilarious and trenchant looks at American passivity. The author and/or director of some 15 plays, his most recent work is Ode to the Man Who Kneels. Maxwell was interviewed in BOMB’s Fall 105 issue.
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