Minna Lee (they/them/she/her) is a Hmong-Vietnamese American writer and animator who takes audiences into whimsical worlds full of queer joy and strange magic. They are a recipient of the Dramatist Guild's 2024 Lanford Wilson Award, a 2025 New Georges Audrey Resident, a MacDowell Fellow, and was awarded Best Original Script by the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle for their play My Home on the Moon.
Their work includes My Home on the Moon (World Premiere at San Francisco Playhouse directed by Mei Ann Teo; East Coast Premiere at Chuang Stage directed by cara hinh; Winner of the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Original Script), Memory Bear (developed in part by the The Assembly Theater's Deceleration Program), and Last Gold (2025 New Georges Audrey Residency; 2024 National Playwright’s Conference Semi-Finalist; 2025 Ojai Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist; 2026 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Finalist).
In 2022 they were the Lead Animator for Cloud House (Blackbox Weathermxn series at On the Boards) in collaboration with Brendan Mack. In the fall they will be in residency at The Cell Theatre as an animator for powpowpowpowpowpowpowpowBANG by Utkarsh Rajawat.
They are a New Georges Affiliated Artist, a Sesame Workshop Writers’ Room Fellow, a member of Pipeline Theatre's 2024 Playlab cohort, and a writer from Ma-Yi's 2025 Playground Program.
BA: University of Washington - Creative Writing
MFA: Hunter College - Playwriting
