Lee Keenan | Theatrical Lighting and Scenic Designer

Silk Road Theatre Project | Pierce Hall, Chicago Temple Building | Fall 2006

Caravaggio by Richard Vetere
Director | Dale Heinen
Scenic & Lighting Design | Lee Keenan
Costume Design | Carol Blanchard
Sound Design & Original Music | Rob Steel
Props Design | Dan Pellant

Featuring | Mike Simmer, Levi Petree, Don Blair, Brenda Barrie, Sean Sinitski, Julian Martinez, Ron Wells
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Loyola University Chicago | Kathleen Mullady Memorial Theatre | November 2006

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
Director | Jonathan Wilson
Scenic Designer | Timothy Mann
Costume Designer | Jacqueline Firkins
Lighting Designer | Lee Keenan
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I’m really proud of my scenic and lighting design for Caravaggio downtown at Silk Road Theatre Project. Its our second show in our beautiful new space in the Chicago Temple Building across from Daley Plaza. I’ll post a couple reviews below:

From Gay Chicago Magazine - reviewed by Venus Zarris

Silk Road Theatre Project delivers a stunning world premiere of Richard Vetere’s beautiful “Caravaggio.” This play dramatizes the turbulent life and career of the most revolutionary painter of the late 1600s-early 1700s, often credited as being the father of the Baroque. Passionate, at times violent and always unconventional, Caravaggio’s life and breathtaking work makes for the perfect subject of theatrical interpretation. (more…)

The House Theatre of Chicago | September 2006

Hatfield & McCoy by Shawn Pfautsch
Director/Fight Choreographer | Matt Hawkins
Music Director | Kevin O’Donnell
Scenic Designer | Tom Burch
Costume Designer | Alison Siple
Lighting Designer | Lee Keenan
Sound Designer | Michael Griggs
Props Designer | Ann Meilahn

Featuring | Nathan Allen, Marika Mashburn, Michael E. Smith, Cliff Chamberlain, Erik Hellman, Michael Spatafora, Tom Mackey, Maria McCullough, Kurt Erhmann, Stacy Stoltz, Stephen Taylor, Sara Hoyer, Joey Steakley, Paige Hoffman, Geoff Button, Michael Salinas, Ben Lobpries, Dennis Watkins, Brian Frederick
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Dorian adapted by Ben Loprides and Tommy Rapley

Baliwick Repertory | August 2006

Director/Choreographer | Tommy Rapley
Scenic Design | Collette Pollard
Costume Design | Debbie Baer
Lighting Design | Lee Keenan and Rebecca Barrett
Sound Design | Kevin O’Donnell
Mask Design | Tracy Ottwell
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Rebecca Barrett and I got a great write-up on our co-lighting design for Dorian in TimeOut Chicago.

The reviews for Dorian are in and they’re top-notch. Don’t miss this show.
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Audio from 848’s Dualing Critics on NPR

“smashing design”, “gorgeous design” -Christopher Piatt

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Chicago Tribune
`Dorian’ a blend of dialogue, movement

By Nina Metz
Special to the Tribune
Published August 11, 2006

Were he with us today, Oscar Wilde probably would roll his eyes at the tools of modern vanity — the nips, the tucks, the Botox and spray-on tans. This fixation with youth and beauty is hardly different than the one explored (and exploited) by Wilde in his only novel, “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” first published in the late 19th Century, and currently adapted for the stage as “Dorian,” by Ben Lobpries and Tommy Rapley for Bailiwick Repertory’s 2006 Pride Festival.

This is the second recent effort from Lobpries and Rapley — House Theatre company members who collaborated earlier this year on “Ellen Under Glass,” a production that attempted (and failed) to fuse dance and theater into a single language. Their accomplishments this time around in “Dorian” are more complex and intriguing. (more…)

 

The House Theatre of Chicago | Storefront Theater @ Gallery 37 | May 2006

Ellen Under Glass by Ben Lobpries, Tommy Rapley
Director/Choreographer | Tommy Rapley

Composer Music Director | Maria McCullough
Scenic Designer | Tom Burch
Costume Designer| Michele Zlatanovski
Lighting Designer | Lee Keenan
Sound Designer | Joe Griffin

Featuring | Carolyn Defrin, Chris Mathews, Paige Hoffman, Dominica Wasilewska, Fannie Hungerford, Patrick Andrews, Devin Preitauer, Caryn Ott, Christal Walls, Lauren McCarthy
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Northwestern University | Spring 2005

The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
Director | Matthew Mazuroski
Scenic Designer - Lee Keenan
Costume Designer - Megan Raham
Lighting Designer |
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Northwestern University | Winter 2005

Juvenilia by Wendy MacLeod
Director | Anna D. Shapiro
Scenic Designer - Jessica Kuehnau
Costume Designer - Amy Gabbert
Lighting Designer | Lee Keenan
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