Lee Sunday Evans
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BIO
Lee Sunday Evans is a two-time Obie Award-winning Director + Choreographer and the Artistic Director of Waterwell.
With Waterwell, she directed The Courtroom, a reenactment of one woman’s deportation proceedings performed entirely from court transcripts arranged by Arian Moayed – this piece was named on The New York Times’ Best Theater of 2019 List. She also led the creation of The Flores Exhibits, a series of videos in which artists, advocates, lawyers and immigrants read testimony of children held in detention facilities at the U.S./Mexico Border. Her work has been seen at BAM, The Public Theater, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Steppenwolf, The Atlantic, WP Theater, The Play Company, Juilliard, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Watermill, Sundance Theater Lab, Clubbed Thumb and New Georges among others.
Productions
Awards and Nominations
Lee Sunday Evans, Oratorio For Living Things
winner
Lee Sunday Evans, Dance Nation
winner
Lee Sunday Evans A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Outstanding Direction of a Musical (Drama League Awards) for Oratorio For Living Things, Special Citations (Obie Awards) for Dance Nation and Special Citations (Obie Awards) for A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes.
Lee Sunday Evans has received Special Citations from the Obie Awards for her work on Dance Nation and for A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes.
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