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untitled feminist show

Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company (NY)
UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW (NY Premiere)

A “brief, joyous, mute extravaganza of dance, mime, and movement”
– New York Magazine

“Does hold nothing sacred? Rather little, save a devotion to the theatrical medium and a desire to challenge complacency, encouraging audiences to think – and feel – for themselves.”
– The Village Voice

“She offers the pleasure of brazen theatrical inventiveness” –
The New Yorker

“Lee confirms herself as one of the best experimental playwrights in America.”
– Time Out New York

“Her work constantly turns itself inside out. It’s also constantly fascinating.”
– The Wall Street Journal

“The clearest indication that the avant-garde isn’t dead, and has never been funnier.”
– New York Magazine

Named Best Provocative Playwright by The Village Voice

In Young Jean Lee’s latest experiment, UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW, six charismatic stars of the downtown theater, dance, cabaret, and burlesque worlds come together to invite the audience on an exhilarating, nearly wordless journey through expressions of a fluid and limitless sense of identity.

Conceived & directed by Young Jean Lee. Featuring Becca Blackwell, World Famous

*BOB*, Amelia Zirin-Brown (aka Lady Rizo), Hilary Clark, Katy

Pyle & Regina Rocke. Choreography by Faye Driscoll, Morgan

Gould & Young Jean Lee, in collaboration with the performers.

Please note this performance contains nudity.

Originally commissioned by The Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) this production is a co-production of The Walker Art Center, Steirischer Herbst (Graz), Kunstenfestivaldesartes (Brussels), the 2011 Spalding Gray Award (Performance Space 122 in New York, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, On the Boards in Seattle, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis), and Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company. Originally developed in association with Caleb Hammons. Funding support provided by the MAP Fund, a program of Creative Capital supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the MAP/Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Creative Explorations Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Residency support from The Park Avenue Armory, The New Museum, Mount Tremper Arts, and the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

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Co-presented by PS122 & Baryshnikov Arts Center as part of the 7th Annual COIL Festival
Baryshnikov Arts Center’s
Jerome Robbins Theater
450 West 37th St., Manhattan, NY
January 12 – Feb 4, 2012
60 min

$25, $20 (students / seniors)
$35 / $30 student, seniors (EXTENSION)

The International Show: A Panikk Transatlantique

A powerhouse international interdisciplinary collaboration serves up stimulating performance. Internationally-renowned visual and performance artists Marie Nerland (Norway) and Alexander Gerner (Germany) team up with Collapsable Giraffe’s co-founder Iver Findlay (New York) and playwright/director Young Jean Lee (New York).

This is the second phase in a long-term partnership between PS122 and BIT Teatergarasjen, Norway’s pre-eminent venue for contemporary art, theatre, and dance that began with 2005’s sold out “Norway in New York” festival. Following its presentation in New York, the performance will be presented in October in Bergen at BIT Teatergarasjen’s Meteor Theatre Festival.

Approximate running time: 1 hour

The project is supported by Arts Council Norway, The Foreign Ministry of Norway, City of Bergen, BIT Teatergarasjen, Performance Space 122, Tou Scene and The Norwegian Writers Centre.

September 27-29, 2007
Thursday – Saturday at 8:30 p.m.
Tickets from $15, $10 (members)

Church

“Emotionally raw dispatches from an angry mind”
– David Cote, Time Out New York

“Gutsy – taboo-busting”
– New York Magazine

“Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” Acclaimed playwright and director Young Jean Lee transforms her life-long struggle with Christianity into an exuberant church service. This is a church of celebration, designed to test the expectations of religious and non-religious alike. Come to CHURCH – an uplifting, joyous and inspirational event that may be Lee’s most miraculous – or devious – experiment to date.

Performed by Greg Hildreth, Karinne Keithley, Weena Pauly, and Katie Workum

Set by Eric Dyer, Lights by Mark Barton, Sound by Matthew Tierney, Costumes by Normandy Sherwood, Choreography by Faye Driscoll, Production Stage Management by Sam Seymour

CHURCH is co-produced by the Vienna Festival 2008, Wexner Center for the
Arts at The Ohio State University, and Performance Space 122. Additional
co-producer BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange. CHURCH is a National Performance
Network Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Walker Art Center, in
partnership with The Philadelphia Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe, and
the National Performance Network. NPN and the NPN Creation Fund is
sponsored by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation,
Nathan Cummings Foundation, Altria, and the National Endowment for the
Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org.

This project is supported by Jerome Foundation.

For more on Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, visit youngjeanlee.org

Photo by James M. Lee

Approximate Running Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Click to read “Faith Confronted, and Defended, Downtown” an interview with director Young Jean Lee and Lear deBessonet in The New York Times

World Premiere
Opens Thursday, April 26th with reception
April 26 – May 12, 2007
$20, $15 Student/Senior

videos by Keith Skretch

Pullman, WA

Pullman, WA is a play about what to do if you’re unhappy and everyone around you is kind of an asshole, including yourself.

Written and directed by Young Jean Lee, co-created and performed by Tom Bradshaw, Pete Simpson, and Tory Vazquez.

Young Jean Lee has directed her plays at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater (Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals) and Soho Rep (The Appeal). She has performed with the National Theater of the United States of America (What’s That On My Head!?!), studies playwriting with Mac Wellman at Brooklyn College, and is a member of 13P.

March 10 – 27, 2005