He acted as a stage set designer for the Washington Square Players (1915–1917), when it became the Theatre Guild in 1919, also he became a stage setting staff of the theater.
Literary works
“Skyscrapers for Art Museums” The American Mercury, August 1927, pages 399-404
"Minor Prophecies" New York, Harcourt and Brace, 1927
"The Stage Is Set", New York, Dover Publications, 1932
(with Theodore Komisarjevsky): "Settings and Costumes of the Modern Stage" New York Studio Productions, 1933
Isaacs, Edith J.R., editor: "Architecture for the New Theater" Lee Simonson: "Theater Planning" New York Theater Arts, 1935
Part of a lifetime: Drawings and Designs 1919-1940, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York 1943
The Art of Scenic Design; A Pictorial Analysis of Stage Setting and its relation to Theatrical Production, 1950
Exhibitions
"Modern American Design in Metal" Newark Museum March 19 - April 18, 1929 included Simonson, Donald Deskey and William Zorach
"International Exhibition of Theater Art", Museum of Modern Art, January 15- February 25, 1934, more than 700 drawings and models from 14 countries. After the MoMA venue, the exhibition traveled to Worcester, Providence, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Chicago and Buffalo
Harvard Contemporary Art Society 1932, exhibition included Simonson, Bel Geddes, Robert Jones, Monsine, Ornslegger
