Christine ML Lee

Biography

Based out of Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang (Montreal), Quebec, Christine ML Lee is a composer, playwright and poet interested in the intersection between music, movement and storytelling. After finishing her Bachelor's in Instrumental Composition as the composer-in-residence at the University of Montreal Choir, she completed the Songwriting Workshop at Berklee College of Music in Boston, the Canadian Musical Theatre Writers’ Collective Workshop in Montreal with Jonathan Monro and Young Creator’s Unit at Playwright’s Workshop Montreal with Jesse Stong. Working with dance and spoken word, her music has been performed at Festival Quartiers Danses and in Montreal Botanical Gardens. Poet and writer, she has contributed several articles for the music magazine La Scena Musicale and has been shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation 2019 Poetry Mentorship program. Alumna of Nightwood Theatre’s Young Innovators Unit 2020-2021, Christine is currently working on a musical tentatively titled, "Just a Note", supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and by Playwright’s Workshop Montreal. Her video poem "Holding Waterways" premiered at the Festival St-Ambroise Montreal Fringe 2021. Christine is serving on the 2021-2022 Board of Directors for the Quebec Writers’ Federation.