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. 

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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

presenters & affiliated orgs

Ars Nova
Asian American Writer's Workshop
Brooklyn Arts Exchange
Bushwick Starr
Danspace / Food for Thought
Dixon Place
Drop Forge and Tool
JACK
LALA Festival
La MaMa Club

support

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Indie Theater Fund
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts
New York State Council on the Arts