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Helen Shaw for VULTURE New York Magazine on Suicide Forest

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“This play is an exorcism. But it is also an embrace.

A wild ride of a production.”

Laura Collins-Hughes for The New York Times on Suicide Forest, NYT Critic’s Pick

... Lee turned to the other Japanese American performers in the show (again, including her mother) and began asking them about identity. She took her existentially terrifying play into kindness, community, and shared burden, moving the piece out of the forest and into the light.”
— Helen Shaw, "The Best Theater of 2019", New York Magazine Vulture
 
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in a way I don’t think I’ve ever experienced before in the theater… War Lesbian felt, and still feels beseechingly important, and is a text that I will no doubt grapple with for years to come." - Stage Buddy on War Lesbian

Several days have passed since I saw the show, and I somehow remember much of the damn thing with delight… Some sort of magic must be at work.
— Time Out New York LGBT Critic's Pick on WAR LESBIAN
War Lesbian is a bizarre, surreal, candy-colored campfest that manages that magic blend of being able to make you laugh, make you think, and give you very weird dreams for the rest of the week.
— New York Theatre Review on WAR LESBIAN
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"Let this be a lesson

to us all to keep up-to-date with whatever emerges next from the harunalee ensemble... left me speechless for quite some time after the piece finished." - Medium on Memory Retrograde

A wholly entertaining pageant that gives us so much food for thought... There is considerable magic in Plum de Force. Apart from the originality of her theatrical vision, Lee also displays a great eye for staging, with so many well designed and executed reveals and changes of scene that the show was a feast for the eyes as well as minds and hearts... Lee is certainly a force." - New York Theatre Review on Plum de Force

(harunalee’s) Troika was a revelation to me. The kind of moment when I know I am in the hands of a true artists and crafts person with a unique vision. Troika was part cabaret act, part historical drama, and part surreal fantasia, but yet deeply rooted in real, true, human experience and interaction. It was one of the moments I always relish as an artistic director when I know I’ve found someone I want to work with.
— Noel Joseph Allain, The Bushwick Starr
War Lesbian holds up a mirror to the wars raging inside all of us and that’s a breath of fresh air in these often troubling times.
— Theatre is Easy on WAR LESBIAN
harunalee explores the terrifying unknown with a gaudy richness that left me swimming in images and then drowning in personal reflection.
— Culturebot on WAR LESBIAN
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"Haruna is a bright authentic theater star (truly)

and anyone who encounters her work would be hard pressed not to find themselves opening up to new possibilities and falling in love." - Taylor Mac


Memory Retrograde featured on Episode 32 of SEQUIN

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Medium on Memory Retrograde
New York Times on War Lesbian
Stage Buddy on War Lesbian
Time Out New York (LGBT Critic's Pick) on War Lesbian
New York Theatre Review on War Lesbian
Culturebot on War Lesbian
Theatre is Easy on War Lesbian  
The Lo-Down on War Lesbian   
New York Theatre Review on Plum de Force                                  


more press + interviews

Julianne Cuba interviews Kristine for a preview piece about "Communing with You" in the Brooklyn Paper
Jess Barbagallo talks with Kristine on BAX and "Communing with You" in The Brooklyn Rail
Katy Einerson interviews Kristine on Sugar Shack for Culturebot
Jess Almasy interviews Kristine on War Lesbian for Culturebot
Emily Gawlak interviews Kristine on War Lesbian for Stagebuddy
Eliza Bent interviews Kristine for a preview piece about War Lesbian for TDF
Lilla Goettler Interviews Kristine on harunalee and being in Great Lakes for Women's Project
Interview with Kristine on Plum de Force for Bushwick Starr

harunalee mentioned in  Clyde Fitch Report for 'The Best Theatre of 2015 Looks Forward to 2016'
War Lesbian mentioned in OUT
War Lesbian mentioned in GO Magazine