harunalee (2010 - 2020)

was an ensemble of theater makers and designers who collaborated across artistic disciplines to create experimental plays and performances helmed by Haruna Lee. With an eye for handmade and craft objects, they created epic visual landscapes that physically accompany Lee's text. 

Since 2010, they've created six original works:TROIKA, Plum de Force, Drunkfish Oceanrant, War Lesbian, to the left of the pantry and under the sugar shack, and Memory Retrograde. These pieces were developed and presented in New York by The Public's Under the Radar Festival, Ars Nova Maker's Lab, La MaMa Club, Brooklyn Arts Exchange Artist in Residence program, Dixon Place Mondo Cane! Commission and Residency, Bushwick Starr Propeller Project Series, JACK, York College Performing and Fine Arts, and Ars Nova Ant Fest. They were residents with The Public's Devised Theater Working Group, and received support from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The Indie Theater Fund, The Mental Insight Foundation and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Grant. 

Read our statement on EQUITY + ETHICAL COLLABORATION. 
Learn more about the loving dissolution of harunalee.

COMPANY

Sitvo Arnoczy video/media designer, performer
Sasha Arutyunova photographer
Karen Boyer costume designer
Andrew R. Butler performer, composer, producer
Greg Laffey scenic designer
Haruna Lee playwright, director, producer, performer
Sarah Lurie lighting designer, production manager, producer
Lauren Swan-Potras performer, director, producer           

COLLABORATORS

Jordan Fein director
Katie Hathaway composer, playwright
Built for Collapse theater company
Andrew J. Scoville director
Jen Goma singer/song writer, sound design, maker, performer  

PRESENTERS & AFFILIATED ORGS

Ars Nova                                                                   Little Theatre
Asian American Writer's Workshop                         LMCC
Brooklyn Arts Exchange                                           Ma-Yi Theater Company
Bushwick Starr                                                         New Dramatists
Danspace / Food for Thought                                  PRELUDE Festival        
Dixon Place                                                               Space on Ryder Farm
Drop Forge and Tool                                                 Target Margin Lab
JACK                                                                          York College
LALA Festival                                                            2g
La MaMa Club                                                           The Public's Under the Radar Festival         
                                                        

SUPPORT

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council                        The Mental Insight Foundation
Indie Theater Fund                                                 The Lotos Foundation
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts                 The Map Fund 
New York State Council on the Arts National Endowment for the Arts