Lee Keenan

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.

500 Clown Trapped

Lee — Mon, 16 May 2011 06:29:39 +0000

500 Clown and Adventure Stage Chicago | Spring 2011

Writen and Conceived by | Adrian Danzig
Director | Paola Coletto
Featuring | Adrian Danzig, Timothy Heck, and Leah Urzendowksi

Review Quote: Star Witness

Lee — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:41:21 +0000

“at the start of “Star Witness,” the new show created for the House Theatre of Chicago, you at first think that the entire show is being staged in the anteroom, or lobby, that sits just beyond the main playing area.

But that is merely an illusion. Before long, those heavy doors are thrown open to reveal designer Lee Keenan’s telescopic vista of a young woman, pedaling down the roads of a small town, as if her very life depended on her escape. The space occupied by the show expands exponentially from there.

That effect is an eye-popping theatrical moment in a very interesting and provocatively staged new show” - Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune

Thieves Like Us

Lee — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:48:10 +0000

by Damon Keily

House Theatre | Fall 2010

Odradek

Lee — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:36:12 +0000

The House Theatre of Chicago | Winter 2011

The Nutcracker

Lee — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:35:00 +0000

House Theatre | Winter 2010

Company

Lee — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 01:54:50 +0000

Griffin Theatre | Fall 2010