Yee was born and raised in San Francisco, California.
[3] Yee graduated from Yale University in 2007, majoring in English and Theatre Arts.
She then attended University of California, San Diego's MFA playwriting program.
[4] Yee is a member of the Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab,[5] a Playwrights’ Center Core Writer, And has worked under commission from the Goodman Theatre, Lincoln Center, and Mixed Blood.
[6] Yee met an attorney named Zachary Zwillinger at Yale.