Hoon Lee: One form of creative expression informs the other

Hoon Lee plays David Henry Hwang’s alter ego in the play “Yellow Face.” He graduated with a degree in visual and environmental studies and English literature from Harvard University, is the son of two molecular biologists; his brother is a postdoctoral candidate in gene expression research at MIT.

“There was a lot of academia floating around in our home,” says Lee, who grew up in Boston. “I was a bit of the black sheep in the family because I was artistically inclined. I always thought I’d be an illustrator or a painter, never a performer. I draw, sing and make music, and feel comfortable drawing parallels between things. So doing one form of creative expression informs the other.”

Continued on The Inner Actor