Eugene Lee (Scenic Designer) was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, 1939. He attended Beloit Memorial High School. He has been resident designer at Trinity Rep since 1967. He has BFA degrees from the Art Institute of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA from Yale Drama School and three honorary Ph.Ds. Mr. Lee has won Tony Awards for Bernstein’s Candide, Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, and Wicked, as well as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design. He is the production designer for NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Other New York theatre work includes Alice in Wonderland, The Normal Heart, Agnes of God, Ragtime, Uncle Vanya, Ruby Sunrise and A Number. Film credits include Coppola’s Hammett, Huston’s Mr. North and Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street. Mr. Lee is an adjunct professor at Brown University and lives with his wife Brooke in Providence, where they raised their two sons.[1]
Perhaps his most notable recent credit is the set design for The Pirate Queen.
Trivia
- He worked with lighting designer Kenneth Posner both on Wicked and The Pirate Queen.
He is the set designer for the upcoming production of The Fantastics[1]at Washington, DC's Arena Stage. He will be staging it in Rocky Point, an abandoned amusement park in Rhode Island.
References
- ^ http://www.wickedthemusical.com/bios-creative.htm
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