News
The Workshop Theater of New York City has selected my new play At the Door for its Fall 2025 Writers’ Intensive. I will be workshopping the play along with three other playwrights and two dramaturgs over a 10-week development program.
The schedule has been set and tickets are on sale for the Act 1 Scene 1: One-Act Festival Weekend at The Village Playbox of Haddon Heights, New Jersey. Two of my short plays will be performed once each across two nights of the festival:
Friday, September 12, at 8:00 p.m.: All Sales Final
Saturday, September 13, at 8:00 p.m.: Just Another Day at the Airport
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 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.