Description

The world premiere was at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University in spring 2014 in conjunction with Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company.

Earned a subsequent Off-Broadway production at The Public Theater in fall 2014, starring Tony Award nominee Austin Pendleton.

Straight White Men is the most naturalistic of Lee’s works, which are known for their varying experimental theatre styles.

May be of interest to younger and academic audiences interested in investigating social identity, gender and privilege.

Topical play with heavy intellectual subtext: inquisitive but not moralizing; questions the role of privilege in both social and individual identity.

Young Jean Lee is one of the foremost experimental theatre playwrights currently in the field

Lee is the recipient of two Obie Awards: the 2007 Emerging Playwright Award and a 2011 special citation for her first musical work We’re Gonna Die, which premiered at Joe’s Pub with the Public Theater (Off-Broadway, New York) in 2011.

Charles Isherwood of the New York Times has referred to Lee as “hands down, the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation.”

Lee is also known for her provocative works The Shipment, Lear (her edgy adaptation of King Lear), and Untitled Feminist Show