Kenjiro Lee is a playwright, puppeteer, director, and performer. But let’s make this easier on ourselves and just say he’s a multidisciplinary theater artist.
Writing
Directing
Performance
Puppetry
About Kenjiro
Kenjiro Lee is a graduate of the University of Chicago where he majored in Political Science (A.B. ‘20) and minored in Theater and Performance Studies. Kenjiro has trained in playwriting through Vassar College and New York Stage and Film’s Powerhouse Theater Training Program and the National Theater Institute’s Summer Theatermakers Intensive and Advanced Playwriting Semester. He was previously a member of the Road Theatre Company’s virtual Under Construction 3 Playwrights Group and playwright-in-residence for the Citadel of Playwrights. He frequently has work produced through Paper Kraine Productions. Kenjiro was also a finalist for the Lark’s 2021-2022 Van Lier New Voices Fellowship before the company tragically folded. He works primarily in the New York theater scene.
Drawing from his own experiences as a Korean-Japanese American and rigorous consumer of the cerebral, the absurd, the serious, and the silly, Kenjiro crafts (usually) comedic plays that confront the uncomfortable aspects of daily life with a dose of remedial chaos.