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The Appeal
By Young Jean Lee

An experimental comedy directed by Katherine Owens

This super-charged electronica version of the lives of the English Romantic poets will star Shelby Davenport as William Wordsworth, Todd Haberkorn as Lord Byron, Shannon Kearns - Simmons as Dorothy Wordsworth, and Kent Williams as Samuel Coleridge. Designers will include Happy Yancey.

"If you thought experimental drama was weird before, just wait."

"laugh out loud funny"

"Undermain gives it an assured, even luxurious production"

"All four performers are terrific"

- The Dallas Morning News

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The Appeal is a copyrighted work by Young Jean Lee
© 2007. All rights reserved.
http://www.youngjeanlee.org/

Ticket prices are Wed and Thurs $15, Fri $20, and Sat $25.

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About the playwright:

Young Jean Lee was born in Korea in 1974 and moved to the United States when she was two. She grew up in Pullman, WA and attended college at UC Berkeley, where she majored in English. Immediately after college, she entered Berkeley's English PhD program, where she studied Shakespeare for six years before dropping out and moving to New York to become a playwright in 2002.

Since then, she has directed her plays at HERE Arts Center (Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven), P.S. 122 (Pullman, WA), Soho Rep (The Appeal), and the Ontological-Hysteric Theater (Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals). She has worked with Radiohole (None of It) and performed with the National Theater of the United States of America (What's That On My Head?!?).

She is a member of New Dramatists and 13P, a resident artist at HERE Arts Center and Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), and has an MFA from Mac Wellman's playwriting program at Brooklyn College. Her plays have been published in New Downtown Now (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), an anthology edited by Mac Wellman and herself, and in Three Plays by Young Jean Lee (Samuel French, 2006).

She is the 2006 recipient of grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Rockefeller MAP Foundation, and the Greenwall Foundation. In 2007, she will direct Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven at the Walker Art Center (January 18-20), the Wexner Center (January 26-28), the Warhol Museum (February 10), The Vienna Festival (May 18-21), Theaterformen in Hannover (June 15-17), and Berlin's Hebbel Theater (October 2007). In 2008, she will direct Songs at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (February 2008) and direct an untitled new show at The Kitchen.

She will direct her new play CHURCH at PS 122 from April 26-May 13, 2007, with two workshop performances at BAX from March 30-31.