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House Season X Announced

Lee — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:04:11 +0000

Cyrano by Matt Hawkins, I’ll be doing lights along side trust assistant Clare Roche.

Nutcracker returns, same show, new lights! with the help of Co-Designer Sarah Hughey. – Death and Harry Houdini – Iron Stag King

Death and Harry Houdini by Nate Allen- super awesome

and Iron Stag King – the beginning of a new epic, I’m working on realm and spectacle design, can’t wait. There will be dragons.
Full Announcement

Spring Awakening

Lee — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:20:13 +0000

I’m really looking forward to working with Jon Barry on another great musical at Griffin Theatre. We’ll be opening Spring Awakening in December at the Theatre Wit space. “Serious sexy punk rock lighting time…” Jon’s words.

fml

Lee — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:49:46 +0000

In February Steppenwolf for Young Adults will Present FML: HOW CARSON MCCULLERS SAVED MY LIFE By Sarah Gubbins Directed by the awesomeness that is Joanie Schultz. I’m designing lights. Something to look forward in February is always a good thing. Its an original work, check out the description, its not messing around.

Jo’s junior year of high school in suburban LaGrange, IL started off just fine—not that it’s ever easy being a lesbian at 16. Thankfully, a new English teacher assigns Carson McCullers’ famed novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, and Jo discovers an unshakable kinship to McCullers’ central character John Singer. Like Singer, Jo is forever the listener, definitively the outsider, perpetually misunderstood and filled with unrequited love. Yet when she is a victim of a gay-bashing incident, her world is turned upside down and she must decide whether to seek revenge or redemption. A story about isolation, fitting in and finding oneself, fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life is a play about surviving high school and how literature still has the power to transform how we see the world.

Trestle at Pope Lick Creek

Lee — Thu, 26 May 2011 06:19:26 +0000

Terrible title. Good play. Jon Barry directs for Eclipse. We open in July. I’m doing lights. There will be glowing blue hands.

House initiation

Lee — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:54:21 +0000

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—-, Lee

feature – Time-Out

Lee — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:27:59 +0000

Rebecca Barrett and I got a great write-up on our co-lighting design for Dorian in TimeOut Chicago.