Actually, Lee has a nasty little habit of taking phrase or even sentences said in her class and using them verbatim in her work. I had multiple friends in her class tell me how shocked they were when they saw the show and realized that she had just taken things they said - often personal things said under the pretense of privacy and emotional rawness that theatre schools are infamous for - and used them in her work with no credit.
If I recall correctly, there might have been a controversy during “The Shipment” because so much of the play was pulled from direct experiences and phrases the cast used. And obviously it reflected an experience that Lee did not have, but she was the only one credited.
I’m not saying that other playwrights/groups haven’t done similar things, but even “A Chorus Line” (the most famous example) actually gave some credit to the cast. It’s also odd that Lee would directly pull from her students in a show she knows they are going to see. It’s not like some rude person said one nasty phrase and you use it in a play five years later. These are words and experiences with people who assume they can trust the person hired to teach that are just appropriated into her work without even so much as a “btw I’m gonna use this.”
It blows my mind. I’ve repressed so much of undergrad, ugh.
"Sticks and stones, sister. Here, have a Valium." - Patti LuPone, a Memoir
