Name Eugene Lee Role Set designer | Spouse Brooke Lee | |
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Education Carnegie Mellon University, Beloit Memorial High School Awards ADG Excellence in Production Design Award for Television - Episode of a Multi-Camera Television Series Nominations Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Multi-Camera Series Production designed Vanya on 42nd Street, Easy Money, Mr. North Similar People Keith Raywood, Susan Hilferty, Franne Lee, Wayne Cilento, Joe Mantello | ||
Set designer eugene lee on his tenure at saturday night live
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 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, 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.
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- Set designer eugene lee on his tenure at saturday night live
- The imaginative design of eugene lee
- References
Perhaps his most notable recent credit is the set design for The Pirate Queen. He worked with lighting designer Kenneth Posner both on Wicked and The Pirate Queen.
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.