Playwright Young Jean Lee Loves To Watch Her Audiences – And Herself – Squirm

“Lee’s work is about wrongness: about being the wrong kind of man, woman, Asian; about saying the wrong thing; about getting other people wrong. Her characters are ill at ease in their bodies and in the world and, sometimes, in the very play they’re starring in. … With each production, she begins by asking herself, ‘What’s the last play in the world you would ever want to write?’ Then she casts actors and builds a play for them and with them, incorporating their feedback.”