Haruna Lee

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Haruna Lee
Occupation playwright, actor

Haruna Lee is an American playwright and actor.[1][2][3]

In 2021 Lázaro was one of ten playwrights awarded a Steinberg Emerging Playwrights Award, that was accompanied by $10,000.[1][2]

Her plays include War Lesbian, Suicide Forest, [3][4][5]

Lee shared an Obie award with Michael R. Jackons and Will Arbery, for Suicide Forest, in 2020.[6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "2021 Steinberg Playwright Awardees Announced". American Theatre (New York City). 2021-12-14. https://www.americantheatre.org/2021/12/14/2021-steinberg-playwright-awardees-announced/. Retrieved 2022-08-25. "The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust today announced the names of the 10 outstanding early- to mid-career playwrights who will be celebrated with 2021 Steinberg Playwright Awards in the amount of $10,000 each. In the past the Steinberg Trust honored two mid-career playwrights with a total of $100,000. But in 2020, given the impact of the pandemic on playwrights throughout the industry, the Trust temporarily restructured the awards to reach a greater number of writers." 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Talaura Harms (2021-12-16). "2021 Steinberg Playwright Awards Recognizes 10 Playwrights". Playbill magazine. https://playbill.com/article/2021-steinberg-playwright-awards-recognizes-10-playwrights. Retrieved 2022-08-25. "The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust has named ten recipients for the 2021 Steinberg Playwright Awards, given annually to up-and-coming American playwrights with distinctive voices. Each of the early to mid–career writers will be granted $10,000." 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Laura Collins-Hughes (2019-03-04). "Review: A Family Divide Haunts Heart-Rending ‘Suicide Forest’". New York Times: p. C5. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/theater/suicide-forest-review-bushwick-starr.html. Retrieved 2022-08-25. "Ms. Lee is also an actor in it, portraying a teenage Japanese schoolgirl named Azusa." 
  4. Alexis Soloski (2014-12-13). "A Talk Show Host by Day, a Soul Eater by Night". New York Times: p. C3. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/13/theater/war-lesbian-gives-ellen-degeneres-a-demonic-twist.html. Retrieved 2022-08-25. "Kristine Haruna Lee’s lively, haphazard “War Lesbian,” at Dixon Place, whirls together Hesiod’s poem 'Theogony' with daytime talk shows, horror movies, nature documentaries, lesbian pulp fiction and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s 'Futurist Manifesto.'" 
  5. Laura Collins-Hughes (2022-08-11). "What to Do With an Absent Father? Cast Him as a Character Onstage". New York Times: p. C1. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/theater/aya-ogawa-the-nosebleed.html. Retrieved 2022-08-25. 
  6. Michael Paulson (2020-07-14). "Obies Honor ‘A Strange Loop’ and ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’". New York Times: p. C3. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/theater/obies-awards.html. Retrieved 2022-08-25. "Along with Jackson and Arbery, Haruna Lee was granted a playwriting award for the conception and writing of “Suicide Forest,” which had productions at the Bushwick Starr and the Ma-Yi Theater Company."