Haruna Lee

Lee was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Japan.^[1] They moved from Japan to the United States when they were eight. They did an undergraduate degree at NYU.^[2]

Inspired by a myth about Sedna, Lee wrote War Lesbian. The musical, composed by Katie Hathaway, who Lee met at New Dramatists,^[3] premiered at Dixon Place in 2014, co-presented by Lee's company, harunalee.^[4][5] Lee appeared in the show playing Ellen DeGeneres.^[6] In 2016, Lee performed Communing with You with their mother, Aoi Lee. The 30-minute Butoh piece was performed at Brooklyn Arts Exchange.^[7] Lee played Jackie in The Offending Gesture at the Connelly Theater in 2016.^[8] They played Meryl Streep as Francesca from The Bridges of Madison County in STREEPSHOW! in 2017.^[9]

Lee's play, Suicide Forest, premiered in 2019 with Ma-Yi Theater Company and directed by Aya Ogawa.^[10] Lee played the schoolgirl, Azusa, in this production.^[11][12] Lee's mother, Aoi, also appeared in the show, which Ma-Yi remounted in 2020.^[13]

In 2023, Lee was invited to join the New Dramatists' resident playwright company until 2030.^[14]

Lee is half Japanese and half Taiwanese.^[15]

• Suicide Forest
• plural (love), with Jen Goma and Morgan Green^[16]
• Communing with You
• Memory Retrograde^[16]
• to the left of the pantry and under the sugar shack^[17]
• War Lesbian
• Drunkfish Oceanrant
• Plum de Force^[18]
• Troika