

Haruna Lee
Haruna Lee
They/Them
They/Them
Haruna Lee is a non-binary Taiwanese/Japanese/American theater maker, screenwriter, educator and community steward whose work is rooted in liberation and healing. Plays include War Lesbian, Memory Retrograde, plural (love), and Suicide Forest, for which they received an Obie Award for Playwriting and Conception and is published by 53rd State Press. Lee has received a Special Commendation from the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Ollie New Play Award, FCA Grants to Artists Award and is a current member of New Dramatists. They’ve collaborated as a writer and performer with artists such as Lynn Nottage, Vanessa German, Aya Ogawa, Ralph Lee, Mac Wellman, Minor Theater, Taylor Mac, and Anohni—among many others. For Television they’ve written for AppleTV+'s Pachinko and Max’s The Flight Attendant. They teach at Yale in the MFA playwriting program.
Haruna Lee is a non-binary Taiwanese/Japanese/American theater maker, screenwriter, educator and community steward whose work is rooted in liberation and healing. Plays include War Lesbian, Memory Retrograde, plural (love), and Suicide Forest, for which they received an Obie Award for Playwriting and Conception and is published by 53rd State Press. Lee has received a Special Commendation from the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Ollie New Play Award, FCA Grants to Artists Award and is a current member of New Dramatists. They’ve collaborated as a writer and performer with artists such as Lynn Nottage, Vanessa German, Aya Ogawa, Ralph Lee, Mac Wellman, Minor Theater, Taylor Mac, and Anohni—among many others. For Television they’ve written for AppleTV+'s Pachinko and Max’s The Flight Attendant. They teach at Yale in the MFA playwriting program.