Lee Kitchen: Third Person Bio
Theatre: Lee’s short play Mona and Leo received twelve performances at three South Florida theatres in May 2023. He’s written nine full-length plays, three one-acts, sixteen ten-minute plays and nine screenplays. The JoJo Mama and the Voodoo Queen received Panelist Favorite award from the late Michael Warren Powell, Last Frontier Theatre Conference. Short plays, Fortune Kooky and Fourth-Quarter Pick-Up, produced at the Tampa Bay Theatre Festival in 2017, 2019. Play, Hearing Art, read 2023 at White Mouse Productions, FSU, and at the Playwrights Round Table (Orlando) and as part of the DG Canada’s reading series. Ten minute play Parscription included in play festival produced by White Mouse Productions-three performances. In October, a stage reading of his one and only musical, Terrarium Earth, was performed by nine members of the White Mouse Theatre Company at Florida State University.
Films: First short film, thirty minutes, Scabs. Lee wrote the script and helped with casting and production. Carlos Miranda directed, filmed and edited the short while Lee was in Spain on business. The second film was The Audition, Bronco’s Dolls Go to Hollwood. Lee’s storyboard and script was selected as one of forty out of three thousand submissions as part of the AT&T Create-a-thon. Part of the short was filmed at the Warner Bros. lot. Lee directed the short. Editing and subsequent production was a learning curve with two different editors trying to salvage footage. Genie Says What? was written by Lee and was casting director. Robert Proctor filmed and edited the five minute film for the Easter Seals Disability Film Festival. The last short film was a five minute segment of The JoJo Mama and the Voodoo Queen, Lee’s award winning stage and screenplay. Lee compiled the segment, cast the actors and directed the film that was shot in a tornado-like thunder storm, outside, with only one take during the entire day. Lee has extensive commercial production experience from his days at the world’s largest ad agency and his experience as marketing director for two international companies.
Screenplays: Scabs the feature version was recently selected as a Top Finalist at the Richmond International Film Festival. Received three Best Screenplay awards for the short screenplay Scabs at three different film festivals. Awarded Best Feature Screenplay at the Irvine International Film Festival for the historical drama, Picnik. Most recently, Best Screenplay award for my feature, The JoJo Mama and the Voodoo Queen at the May2022 Austin Comedy Film Festival and the Silver Award for first time animation screenplay writer, Da Doo Waas, at the December 2022 Los Angeles Animation Festival. Produced five minute segment of JoJo Mama and the Voodoo Queen (www.voodooqueen.info).
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Lee also wrote, acted and produced an audio series titled Dogs of 331 with over 78 hours of extemporaneous audio descriptions, narratives and stories along route 331 from Alabama to Florida. In addition, his full length play, SOS, Swans of Stratford was developed during a Dramatist Guild Master Class and revised during readings with Roland Tec's Wednesday Gatherings with suggestions that the series of ten minute episodes evolve into a radio comedy. A series of family illustrated stories of a Roster who travels the world and leans from cultural mistakes is a work in progress with three books completed.
Lee is a member of the Dramatist Guild and the Playwright’s Guild of Canada. BA (Journalism), MA (Communication) and MBA. Participated in workshops/Master Classes with Joseph Chaikin, Steve Dietz, Roland Tec, Andrea Lepcio, Collab TV Writer’s Class and Philip Eisner.