Eugene Lee (designer)
Eugene Lee is an American set designer who has worked as the production designer for Saturday Night Live since the show's premiere in 1975. Lee has been resident designer at Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island, since 1967.
Lee attended Beloit Memorial High School, has a BFA each from the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University, an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and three honorary Ph.Ds. He has won Tony Awards for Bernstein’s Candide, Sondheim’s ', and Wicked, as well as the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design. 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.
Lee lives in Providence with his wife, Brooke, where they raised their two sons.
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, '. 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.
