Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Los Angeles, Allison Lee studied English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago where she was a member of the student filmmaking group, Fire Escape Films, and graduated with honors for her thesis film, “Kick A Boy”. Lee returned to Los Angeles to receive her MFA in Film and TV Production from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts. Upon graduation, she worked in development and production at DreamWorks and NBCUniversal.

A recipient of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans Scholarship and an Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences Grant, Lee was invited to attend the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications Writers’ Workshop and the Nickelodeon Writer’s Script Review. She was also named a Project Involve fellow through which her short “The Grizzly” was produced by Film Independent.

In 2015, she was one of five screenwriters who received a residency through the inaugural Hedgebrook Screenwriters Lab, where she was mentored by Jane Anderson and Jenny Bicks. Recently, Lee was selected to participate in the Sundance Screenwriters Intensive, and she was also nominated for the 2016 Fox Global Directors Initiative.