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This 5 page paper discusses the life and design process of scenic designer Eugene Lee, who works both on the stage and with the TV show “Saturday Night Live.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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impossible space and an impossible project" he says (Waldman). Lee is one of the most renowned of all set designers, having won three Tony Awards for "Wicked," "Sweeney Todd" and
Leonard Bernsteins "Candide" (Waldman). Hes also won the "American Theatre Wings Design Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Pell Award" and has been nominated three times for his work
on "Saturday Night Live," a show hes been with since 1974 (Waldman). He also works as the resident designer "at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence" (Waldman). He has worked with
such theater luminaries as Hal Price and Peter Brook (the Royal Shakespeare Company), and film legends such as John Huston and Francis Ford Coppola (Waldman). He is currently working on
a Broadway-bound show called "The Pirate Queen," which features the work of Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg, the men who wrote "Les Mis?rables" (Waldman). Lee was born in Beloit,
Wisconsin, into a theater family: "his father was an actor and his mother worked backstage in community theater" (Foster). He notes that he did everything in high school that hes
doing now; he fell in love with it all at a very early age (Foster). He attended the University of Wisconsin for a short time, then "showed up, unannounced, at
Carnegie Mellon University (then called Carnegie Tech) with just a sheaf of designs from high school productions" (Foster). In the best theatrical tradition, "Carnegie accepted him, as did the Art
Institute of Chicago (he got bachelors degrees from both, despite not finishing)" (Foster). He capped off his academic career with an MFA from Yale University School of Drama (Foster). Lees
work features his "unique use of the spaces in which he designs. Often, he will reconfigure the theatre space itself to accommodate the play by moving exits, technical booths, and
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