April 1-30, 2011
JOE’S PUB at the Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street (between East 4th Street and Astor Place)

13P (in association with Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company) presents WE’RE GONNA DIE, written and performed by YOUNG JEAN LEE, music by FUTURE WIFE, music direction by TIM SIMMONDS, choreography by FAYE DRISCOLL, directed by PAUL LAZAR.

April 1-2 and April 30 @ 7PM
April 8-9, 17-18, 22-23, 29-30 @ 9:30PM

FUTURE WIFE is MIKE HANF, NICK JENKINS, BEN KUPSTAS, YOUNG JEAN LEE, and TIM SIMMONDS

In WE’RE GONNA DIE, provocative theater artist Young Jean Lee explores human vulnerability with her hilariously disorienting signature style. Surrendering her usual practice of casting larger-than-life superstars, Lee sets out to make a show that any ordinary person could perform. Using herself as a guinea pig, non-performer Lee takes the stage herself along with her band, Future Wife, to tell stories and sing songs about our shared human weakness and failure. Join Lee and Future Wife for an evening of heartbreak, despair, aging, sickness, and death. You may be miserable, but you won’t be alone.

$30 Seated / $25 Standing

YOUNG JEAN LEE (Artistic Director) was named by American Theatre magazine as one of the 25 artist who will shape the American theater over the next 25 years. She was born in Korea in 1974 and moved to the United States when she was two years old.  She is the artistic director of Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company, was a finalist for the 2010 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for THE SHIPMENT, a recipient of the 2009 Brooklyn College Young Alumni Award, the ZKB Patronage Prize 2007 of the Zurich Theater Spektakel, a 2007 Emerging Playwright OBIE Award, a 2010 fellowship in playwriting from NYFA, and a 2010 Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

For more info: www.youngjeanlee.org