Eugene Lee (designer)

Eugene Lee (Scenic Designer) was born in Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1939. He attended Beloit Memorial High School. He has been resident designer at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island, since 1967. He has BFA degrees from the Goodman School of Drama of 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 Amazing Grace,^[1] Alice in Wonderland, The Normal Heart, Agnes of God, Ragtime, Uncle Vanya, Ruby Sunrise, Bounce, 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, resident set designer at Trinity Repertory Company, and lives with his wife Brooke in Providence, where they raised their two sons.^[2]

His work on the musical Candide at the Chelsea Theater Center of Brooklyn and on Broadway are chronicled in great detail in Davi Napoleon's book, Chelsea on the Edge: The Adventures of an American Theater. The book also describes his work on Slave Ship and other productions at the Chelsea.

Lee is also a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 2006.^[3]

References

External links

• Eugene Lee at the Internet Broadway Database
• Eugene Lee on IMDb
• Interview with Eugene Lee about his work in the regional and Broadway theater
• Description of a production of an O'Neill play with special attention to Eugene Lee's design.
• Description of a musical by Stephen Sondheim with special attention to Eugene Lee's design.
• Eugene Lee Set design drawings, 19--, held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts