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Saturday, June 14th, 2008

House initiation

Tonight I was initiated as a Company Member of the House Theatre of Chicago, and I can’t tell you what it means to me. It is rare to find a group of people so committed to the same goals and ethics as you, seeking to achieve them through the same means. — Fight Evil—-, [...]

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Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Around the World in 80 Days

Don’t miss my first lighting design for Lookingglass. It was a delightful adventure to work on and it is a delightful adventure to watch.

Scenic Design by Jacqueline and Richard Penrod
Lighting Design by Lee Keenan
Costume Design by Mara Blumenfeld
Original music by Kevin O’Donnell
Sound Design by Joshua Horvath
FeaturingKevin Douglas and Philip R. Smith, Joe Dempsey, Ravi Batista, [...]

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Monday, April 14th, 2008

Our Enemies

Silk Road Theatre Project | Pierce Hall, Chicago Temple Building | Sprin 2008
Our Enemies by Yussef El Guindi
Director | Patrizia Acerra
Scenic Design | Lee Keenan
Costume Design | Christine Pascual
Lighting Design | Mac Vaughey
Sound Design & Original Music | Rob Steel
Props Design | Daniel Katz
Featuring | Kareem Bandealy, Andrew Navarrom, Don Bender, James Elly, Susie [...]

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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

The Attempters

The House Theatre of Chicago | Winter 2008
The Attempters by Shawn Pfautsch
Director | Marika Mashburn
Scenic Designer | Collette Pollard
Costume Designer | Debbie Baer
Lighting Designer | Lee Keenan
Music Director | Andy Wagner
Sound Designer | Rick Sims
Props Designer | Michelle Warner

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Monday, March 3rd, 2008

reviews - Our Enemies

‘Our Enemies’ steers clear of caricature
By Chris Jones | Theater critic
March 4, 2008
At the top of Yussef El Guindi’s new play, we’re taken to a TV studio—it looks a lot like Fox News—where an iconoclastic host is about to interview the Arab-born author of “Jihad 101.” It’s a book that panders to the prejudices of [...]

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Saturday, February 16th, 2008

Burial at Thebes

Loyola University Chicago | Kathleen Mullady Memorial Theatre | February 2008
Burial at Thebes adapted from Sophocles Antigone by Seamus Heaney
Director | Sarah Gabel
Scenic & Costume Designer | Jacqueline Firkins
Lighting Designer | Lee Keenan

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Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Noir

The Building Stage | Fall 2007
Noir Conceived and Directed by Blake Montgomery
Production Design | Lee Keenan, Meghan Raham, and Blake Montgomery
Costume Design | Meghan Raham
Lighting design | Lee Keenan
Sound Design | Kevin O’Donnell
Assistant Lighting Designer | Ryan Williams
Performed and Created | David Amaral, Eddie Bennett, Sarah Goeden, Fannie Hungerford, Chelsea Keenan, and Daiva Olson.
I’m [...]

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Sunday, October 7th, 2007

reviews - Noir

The Building Stage presents Noir
What a joy this was to light, the whole production is in greyscale, right down to skin and hair [thanks to the actors for their laborious preshow makeup job]. It is is dark,shadowy , high contrast, sexy, its Noir. And the show is funny, it comes from a clown aesthetic and [...]

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Sunday, October 7th, 2007

reviews - Merchant On Venice

I’m really proud of this show. I designed the set and the projections on this our latest Silk Road Theatre Project: Shishir Kurup’s Merchant On Venice. The “On” is not a typo, this is a modern adaptation set on West LA’s Venice Blvd with Hindus and Muslims rather than Christian’s and Jews, its a [...]

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Monday, October 1st, 2007

Merchant On Venice

Silk Road Theatre Project | Pierce Hall, Chicago Temple Building | Fall 2007
Merchant on Venice by Shishir Kurup
Director | Stuart Carden
Scenic Design | Lee Keenan
Costume Design | Carol Blanchard
Lighting Design | Rebecca Barrett
Sound Design & Original Music | Rob Steel
Props Design | Dan Pellant
Featuring | Kamal Hans, Madrid St. Angelo, Vincent Mahler, Andy Nagraj, Gerardo [...]

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