Nahyeon Lee's original background was in film and TV - she's directed, written and produced films, web-series and docu-series. Next month she makes her playwriting debut with a show called The First Asian Prime-Time Sitcom, which she says she wrote in a "fit of fury"...
The Tāmaki Makarau-based all-rounder graduated from the University of Auckland in Screen Production, with first class honours for a Master of Arts in drama directing in 2020.
She was one of the directors and writers on the feature film Kāinga that debuted in this year's International Film Festival.
Until now her theatre work has been as a producer, but her new play is a hard-hitting comedy about the frustrations experienced by an all-Asian cast and crew of a (fictitious) sitcom created for prime-time TV.
Ahead of the play's premiere Lynn Freeman asked her about her initial decision to get into filmmaking.
Nahyeon Lees play The First Prime-Time Asian Sitcom premieres on the 3rd of November at Auckland's
Q Theatre.
