Presented as part of RE:NEW RE:PLAY Residency Series, the New Museum hosted a 4-week rehearsal residency and the workshop premiere of Young Jean Lee’s all-female all-nude dance-as-theater performance, which eventually became known as UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW and premiered in NYC at the Baryshnikov Art Center to rave reviews. Each workshop presentation was followed by a Q&A with the audience. The notes that Young Jean took during the Q&A sessions were worked into the text on for the subsequent performance.  

Young Jean Lee uses her hilariously disorienting approach to explore the subject of feminism in UNTITLED FEMINIST MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY SHOW (UFMTS). A butch chauvinist and her bad-boy-loving friend visit a feminist utopia full of dancing fairies in this work-in-progress showing that not only gives a glimpse into the early development of the show, but also invites the audience into the process by engaging them in conversation with Young Jean and her all-star female cast. UFMTS seduces with contradictory images of women, intensifying and proliferating a sense of female beauty and power that goes beyond the limited options we’ve all been trained to desire.  

UNTITLED FEMINIST MULTIMEDIA TECHNOLOGY SHOW (UFMTS)
A new work-in-progress by Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company Written and directed by Young Jean Lee

Please note: This performance includes nudity.

Featuring: Becca Blackwell, World Famous BOB, Amelia Zirin-Brown (aka Lady Rizo), Hilary Clark, Bianca Leigh, Katy Pyle, and Regina Rocke
Choreography: Faye Driscoll
Video Design Consultant: Leah Gelpe
Dramaturgy: Mike Farry
Scenic Consultant: David Evans Morris
Costume Consultant: Roxana Ramseur
Lighting Consultant: Raquel Davis
Sound Consultant: Jill BC Du Boff
Production Supervisor: Sunny Stapleton
Associate Director: Morgan Gould
Assistant Directors: Kate Gagnon and Rachel Karp
Assistant Sound: Ien DeNio
Producing Director, Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company: Caleb Hammons

Young Jean Lee is a playwright and director based in New York City. She has directed her plays at Soho Rep (Lear and The Appeal), The Kitchen (The Shipment), The Public Theater (Church), Performance Space 122 (Church and Pullman, WA), HERE Arts Center (Songs of the Dragons Flying To Heaven), and the Onotological-Hysteric Theater (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals). She has worked with Radiohole and the National Theater of the United States of America. She is a member of New Dramatists and 13P, has done residencies at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, and Hedgebrook, and has an MFA from Mac Wellman’s playwriting program at Brooklyn College. Her plays have been published in New Downtown Now (an anthology edited by Mac Wellman and herself), in Three Plays by Young Jean Lee (Samuel French), American Theatre magazine (September 2007), a collection of all of her plays entitled Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays (Theatre Communications Group), and The Shipment and Lear (Theatre Communications Group, June 2010). She and her company have been the recipients of grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Trust for Mutual Understanding, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, MAP / Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Creative Exploration Fund, Tobin Foundation for Theater Arts Grant, Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Foundation Grant, Arts Presenters/Ford Foundation Creative Capacity Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, the MAP Fund, the Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Her work has been invited to tour to venues in Paris, Vienna, Hannover, Berlin, Zurich, Brussels, Budapest, Sydney, Bergen, Oslo, Trondheim, Rotterdam, Salamanca, Toulouse, Chicago, Chapel Hill, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Boston, Williamstown, and Minneapolis. Lee is currently under commission from Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is the artistic director of Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, was a finalist for the 2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for The Shipment, a recipient of the 2009 Brooklyn College Young Alumni Award, the ZKB Patronage Prize 2007 of the Zurich Theater Spektakel, a 2007 Emerging Playwright OBIE Award, a 2010 fellowship in Playwrighting from NYFA, and a 2010 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.