News
The Village Playbox of Haddon Heights, New Jersey, has selected two of my short plays for its Act 1 Scene 1: One-Act Festival Weekend, taking place September 11–13. Both All Sales Final and Just Another Day at the Airport will be featured.
My play Closet Space has been selected as a finalist from over 600 submissions for the Green Mountain New Play Festival and will receive a workshop table read at the Green Mountain Playwright Retreat, both taking place August 6–9 in Plainfield, Vermont.
The T. Schreiber Studio & Theatre of New York City has selected my short play Family Emergency as a finalist for its Schreiber Shorts Festival.
My short play Trite and True has received an Honourable Mention from Theatre In the Raw of Vancouver in its 13th Biennial One-Act Play Writing Contest. My play Open House was previously a winner in the Social Issues category in the 11th Biennial contest in 2020.
Asian Story Theater of San Diego has selected my short play The Immaculate Contraception as a semifinalist for its The Last Census project.
About
Jane M. Lee is a New York City-based playwright whose work has been performed across the United States as well as in Canada, Hong Kong, and London. Her short play Trite and True was produced Off-Broadway in the Downtown Urban Arts Festival at Theatre Row. Her short play Family Emergency was praised for “fus[ing] the hostility of a Jerry Springer program with the warmth and irony of an O. Henry story.” She was a semifinalist for Chisa Hutchinson’s Signpost Fellowship for writers of color. Her play Closet Space won the College of Charleston’s Todd McNerney National Playwriting Award.