Hunter College congratulates MFA in Playwriting student and soon-to-be grad Minna Lee ’24 on winning the Dramatist Guild prestigious Lanford Wilson Award.
The Wilson award was established by the estate of Lanford Wilson and is presented to an early career or “emerging” playwright. Lee joins past Hunter MFA Wilson awardees Charly E. Simpson ’17 and Mariam Bazeed ’18.
“Minna Lee is emerging as one of the most imaginative young dramatists of their generation,” said Associate Dean for the Arts Gregory Mosher. “We wish them much success.”
A Hmong-Vietnamese American playwright and animator, Lee has created several award-winning productions. Those include My Home on the Moon (which premiered at San Francisco Playhouse and was a Playwrights Foundation 2024 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist and Honorable Mention) and Acting Stranger with Andrew Schneider and Fox Whitney (a co-production On the Boards and LA Performance Practice). They are developing an installation with the Assembly Theater’s Deceleration Lab, a play with Pipeline Theatre’s 2024 PlayLab, and are filming a documentary. Lee is a New Georges Affiliated Artist and was a 2022 Sesame Workshop Writers’ Room Fellow.
The Rita and Burton Goldberg MFA Playwriting Program at Hunter College is a highly selective, rigorous, and affordable two-year playwriting program that has proved itself as an incubator of the nation’s top talent by seeking writers who challenge assumptions about what theatre is and will become.
