Chris Lee is an Irish playwright based in London. His plays plays include Hummingbird (1996), The Optimist's Daughter (1997), Eat the Enemy ( 1999), The Electrocution Of Children (1998) for which he won the Stewart Parker New Playwright Award, and The Map Maker's Sorrow (1999 ). In 1999 he was appointed Writer-in-Association with the Abbey Theatre. In 2000 he was awarded a Pearson New Playwright's Bursary for an attachment to the Finborough. Other notable plays: On Line & Paranoid in the Sentimental City (2000) and Vermilion Dream (2004).