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Media Alert Monday, October 21 2013 Contact: Jessica Wolf 310.825.7789 [email protected] Young Jean Lee Makes L.A. Debut with ‘We’re Gonna Die’ Nov. 20-24 at Actor’s Gang Theater The Ivy Substation “Its forthright acknowledgement that life can be a rough business is bracing, funny and, yes, consoling” —New York Times "Enormously touching ... Lee purchases our hearts with her bravery's own coin." —Time Out New York Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA is proud to bring New York playwright-director Young Jean Lee to Los Angeles for the first time with her pop-tinged musical theater work “We’re Gonna Die” running November 20-24 at the Actors Gang Theater at the Ivy Substation in Culver City. Tickets ($40) are available now via cap.ucla.edu , Ticketmaster or the UCLA Central Ticket Office (310.825.2101). With her band, Future Wife, Young Jean Lee takes the stage in a life-affirming show that anyone could perform, about the thing everyone has in common: We're gonna die. You may be miserable, but you won’t be alone. In August, Young Jean Lee and Future Wife released a full-length album version of “We’re Gonna Die,” featuring Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, Kathleen Hanna, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Colin Stetson, Arcade Fire's Sarah Neufeld, and more. “We’re Gonna Die” debuted at New York’s famed Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in 2011 and has traveled to Calgary, Paris, Melbourne, Seoul and the Brighton Festival in England, returning to New York for a run at LCT3's Claire Tow Theater August 5-17. Young Jean Lee has been called “the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation” by the New York Times and “one of the best experimental playwrights in America” by Time Out New York . She has written and directed nine shows in New York with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and toured her work to more than 30 cities around the world. She’s directed a short film, “Here Come the Girls.” Her plays have been published by Theatre Communications Group (“Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays,” “The Shipment” and “Lear”) and by Samuel French (“Three Plays by Young Jean Lee”). She is currently under commission from Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizons, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She has an MFA from Mac Wellman's playwriting program at Brooklyn College, and is a resident filmmaker at the Wooster Group. She has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Creative Capital, NYFA, NEA, NYSCA, the Jerome Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the Rockefeller MAP Foundation. She is also the recipient of two OBIE awards, the Festival Prize of the Zuercher Theater Spektakel, a 2010 Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2012 Doris Duke Artist Award. She is currently working on her new show, “Straight White Men,” which will premiere at the Wexner Center in 2014, as well as her second short film, “A Meaning Full Life,” starring Paul Lazar, Wallace Shawn, and Kate Valk. TICKET INFORMATION General tickets ($40) are available at cap.ucla.edu, all Ticketmaster outlets, by phone at 310.825.2101 or in person at the UCLA Central Ticket Office located in the southwest corner of the James West Alumni Center. UCLA students may purchase tickets for $20 in advance. Student rush tickets, subject to availability, are offered at the same price one hour before show time to all students with valid ID. Performances: Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:00 PM Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 8:00 PM Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:00 PM Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 8:00 PM Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 7:00 PM Location: The Actors’ Gang at The Ivy Substation, 9070 Venice Blvd, Culver City, 90232. 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