Hi! I’m doing research for a Broadway-bound play that I am writing about Cleveland. I'm trying to talk to a variety of Cleveland residents about their lives so that my characters feel like real people who live in Cleveland, and I can get the details right. I’m looking for people who exactly fit the descriptions at the bottom of this email, to do hour-long phone interviews, for which I can pay $25.

If you or anyone you know might be eligible and interested, it would be great if you could pass along their info or have them contact me at youngjeanlee.nyu@gmail.com.

Also below is an article about me and my work, a link to my website, and my bio.

Thank you!

Best,

Young Jean

 

YOUNG JEAN LEE is a writer and director who has been called “the most adventurous downtown playwright of her generation” by the New York Times and “one of the best experimental playwrights in America” by Time Out New York. She has written and directed ten shows in New York with Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, and toured her work to over thirty cities around the world. Lee has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, two OBIE Awards, a Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a PEN Literary Award, a United States Artists Fellowship, a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, a Doris Duke Artist Residency, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant. Her play Straight White Men will have its Broadway debut at Second Stage in 2018. Her newest play Safety Net, will be set in Cleveland and is a Broadway commission from Second Stage. She teaches at Stanford and Yale.

ELIGIBLE INTERVIEW SUBJECTS

WHITE MALE AROUND THE AGE OF 30

Currently living in Cleveland

Single, no kids

No college or community college degree

Does work involving manual labor

WHITE FEMALE IN HER LATE 40s

Currently living in Cleveland

Worked in service jobs all her life (not managerial)

Has kids

MEXICAN-AMERICAN MALE AROUND THE AGE OF 20

Born in the U.S., parents immigrated from Mexico

Unmarried, no kids

Currently attending college in Cleveland

Parents do not have college degrees

BLACK FEMALE IN HER MID-TWENTIES

Currently living in Cleveland

College degree

Parents are unable to offer any financial support

Starting out in entry level management job

BLACK MALE AROUND THE AGE OF THIRTY

Currently living in Cleveland

No college or community college degree

Working in a service job such as security guard, custodian, maintenance, etc. (not managerial)

LATIN AMERICAN WOMAN ANY AGE

Immigrated to the U.S.

Currently living in Cleveland

Works in housekeeping

Either doesn't have children or doesn't live in the same city as her children

WHITE MALE POLICE OFFICER ANY AGE

Currently living in Cleveland.

BLACK FEMALE POLICE OFFICER ANY AGE

Currently living in Cleveland.

ASIAN-AMERICAN FEMALE AROUND THE AGE OF FORTY

Currently living within an hour’s drive from Cleveland

Has a college degree

Works in the arts and/or academia

BLACK MALE AROUND THE AGE OF 40

Currently living within an hour’s drive from Cleveland

Upper-middle-class to wealthy