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Straight White Men
2014 American play by Young Jean Lee
Straight White Men is a 2014 American play by Young Jean Lee.[1] The play's 2018 production at the Hayes Theater made Lee the first Asian American woman to have a play produced on Broadway.[2]
Background
Much of Straight White Men was born out of a workshop Lee conducted with a group of women, people of color, and LGBTQ people.
Lee was cognizant that the umbrella term "straight white man" represented the default "other" for marginalized groups, and so asked the workshop attendees what they thought of straight white men, and how they would prefer straight white men behave.
After a lengthy discussion, the group decided the ideal straight white man was someone who was not aggressive, who was passive in social justice spaces, and overall did not interfere with their causes.[3]
Lee took the ideas and created a straight white male character that fit the workshop's description: this became