Faculty Bio

Shinho Lee Assistant Arts Professor Tisch Asia

Courses

Head of Screenwriting

Biography

Shinho Lee, born and raised in Seoul, Korea, moved to the States in 1996 and received his BFA in Film and Television and MFA in Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.

Lee co-wrote “The Chaser” which was one of the highest grossing films in Korea in 2008 and invited to The 2008 Cannes Film Festival for the Official Selection Midnight Screening. It is expected to be remade by Warner Bros. starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Lee wrote screenplay “Sayonara Itsuka (Saying Goodbye, One Day)” based on the best selling novel by Hitonari Tsuji. It stars Miho Nakayama from Shunji Iwai’s “Love Letter” and was successfully released in Japan and Korea in 2010.

Lee’s screenplay “The Red Snow” was the Grand Prize Winner of The 2003 Harley-Merrill International Screenwriting Award sponsored by MPA and RKO Pictures and The 2002 CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacific in Entertainment) Foundation’s New Writers Award sponsored by The 20th Century FOX.

His play “Dream of No Words” was introduced at Hartford Stage’s 2003 Brand New Reading Series, and summer of 2001, his other plays “The Water Mirrors” (American Living Room with Lincoln Center) and “Butterfly” (Director’s Company’s Don’t Blink) were produced in New York City.  
 
Currently Lee is developing projects with Terence Chang's Abundance Pictures and Singapore-based Bang Productions.