Resume
Lee has taught acting at Brown, Emory, and West Georgia, as well as Theatre and Culture at Oglethorpe University. He also teaches scene study to the Actor’s Express Interns and has worked as a teaching artist with the Alliance, Seattle Shakespeare, and Cape Fear Regional Theatre.
Teaching Philosophy
Theatre is the practice of creating and exploring new and never imagined worlds through a paradoxical search for truth.
I teach that we, as artists, are never creating in a vacuum, but in response to specific contexts. And the context of each performance, and each moment within each performance, is always changing. So, like any other practice- whether that’s meditation, yoga, running, or baking- the work of a theatre artist is never done…READ FULL TEACHING PHILOSOPHY.
Equity Statement
I pass as white most of the time. Maybe in the middle of summer I might get asked, “What are you?” Or, “You’re something, right?” To which I answer, “Yes. . .I’m something.”
I’m the son of an immigrant. My Dad was born in Venezuela. When he came to this country at seven years old, he was told by society, by his teachers, and by my grandparents to erase the first seven years of his life and assimilate as quickly as possible into the dominant- read “white”- culture. Like a fence in a Mark Twain story, my father was tricked into whitewashing himself. A trick that has allowed me to walk through this world as a benefactor of white supremacy.
But there is a cost to erasure.