Summer and Smoke - Off-Broadway Creative Team

Lee has designed lighting for live performance for over thirty years. As a long-time associate of New York City-based Transport Group, he has designed twenty-three of their off-Broadway productions, receiving Drama Desk Award nominations for his work on See Rock City & Other Destinations, Bury the Dead, and The Audience; and Henry Hewes Design Award nominations for Summer and Smoke, I Remember Mama, and Queen of the Mist. Lee also designed the off-Broadway premiere of Terrence McNally’s And Away We Go for The Pearl, the world premiere musical Benny & Joon for The Old Globe, and The Light in the ... read more Michael John LaChiusa is a Tony-nominated composer, lyricist, and librettist known for his innovative and daring works in musical theatre. Born in 1962 in Chautauqua, New York, LaChiusa began his career in the theatre as a performer before transitioning to writing. LaChiusa's breakthrough came in 1993 with the Off-Broadway production of "Hello Again," a musical adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's "La Ronde." The show was praised for its unconventional structure, which followed a series of sexual encounters between ten characters across different eras and social classes. LaChiusa's score blended musical styles from each era, ranging from opera to disco, and earned him ... read more Broadway: set and costumes for Deaf West's Spring Awakening, set for Fool For Love. Recent off-Broadway: set and/or costumes for Rancho Viejo, Indian Summer, The Christians, Iowa (Playwrights Horizons), Sell.Buy.Date (Manhattan Theatre Club), Homos, or Everyone in America (Labyrinth), The Harvest, (Lincoln Center), The Glory of the World (B.A.M. Harvey), Cloud 9 (Atlantic) and other work at Roundabout, Second Stage, Vineyard Theatre, Lincoln Center Theatre, MCC, SoHo Rep, Rattlestick, Transport Group and many others. Regional work at The Humana Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Shakespeare Theatre, The Old Globe, Huntington Theatre Company, The Wallis Annenberg Center, Denver Center, Goodspeed, Woolly Mammoth, ... read more