Chronology

Photograph by Nathaniel Tilston, Sky Fish (1979)

2016 Documentary Film of Behind The Lid directed by Steve Lippman screened at HERE, NYC

2014 Documentary Film of Behind the Lid directed by Steve Lippman premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music cinématek series Puppets on Film, New York

2007 Wrote Behind the Lid, a collaboration with director and puppeteer Basil Twist, premiered June 3, 2007 at the Silver Whale Gallery, NYC, ran for 6 weeks

Lee died June 7, 2007.

2005 
Exhibition of a series of watercolor paintings at Galerie Atelier Herenplaats, Rotterdam, Holland

2003 
Performer in The Nostalgic Body, collaboration between Janet Asiawa & Mary-Clare McKenna, The Silver Whale Gallery, Jeffersonville, New York

2000
 Wrote and directed The Valley of Iao, La Mama E.T.C., NYC co-produced by La Mama, in association with Street Dance Productions, Inc.

1999
 Performer in dance film Rolling by Alain Le Razor, choreography by Lorn MacDougal, Screened at The Ohio Theatre, NYC; Winner of Most Innovative Film, Canyonlands Film Festival, Utah

1997 
Directed the Matzoh Factory created and performed by Abe Wald, The Angel Orensanz, Majestic Former Synagogue, NYC

1996
 Directed Pathways created & performed by Margaret Beals, The Loft Theatre NYC; Joyce Soho, NYC; Gloucester Stage, MA. Awarded – One of the Ten Best Theatre Works of the Year by the Boston Globe

Performer in Murder and murder, film directed by Yvonne Rainer

1994-1995
 Performer in Karen Malpede’s Beekeeper’s Daughter (a role written for her.) The Silver Whale Gallery, NYC; The Dionysia World Festival of Contemporary Drama, Italy 


1995
 Video production of Sky Fish directed and produced by Doris Chase is added to the Museum of Modern Art Film Archive collection. 



Performed the role of Dotty in the Foundary Theatre’s production of Deviant Craft by playwright W. David Hancock at the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, New York

1994
 Concieved & Directed Angel’s Elegy, The Silver Whale Gallery, NYC

1992
 Performer in Karen Malpede’s production Blue Heaven, Theatre for the New City, NYC

1990
 Conceived & Directed Dragon’s Nest, La Mama Annex E.T.C., NYC in association with Women’s Interart Center

1987
 Bird/Bear is screened at the Angelika Movie Theatre, NYC; Berlin Film Festival, Germany

1986
 Concieved & Directed Bone Orchard, The Silver Whale Gallery, NYC; produced by Women’s Interart Center

Conceived & Directed Bird/Bear, The Silver Whale Gallery, NYC; produced by Women’s Interart Center

Bird/Bear wins the OBIE for Best New American Play

1982
 Concieved & Directed Whorl, St Marks Church, NYC, produced by Women’s Interart Center.  



1981
Video version of Sky Fish directed by Doris Chase for “Doris Chase Concepts” – avant-garde video art mini series for WNYC-TV

Performer in Meredith Monk’s Film, Ellis Island

1980 Conceived & Directed Bird Devil, The Silver Whale Gallery, NYC; produced by Women’s Interart Center.

1979
 Forms her company, The Sky Fish Ensemble

Conceived & Directed Sky Fish, The Silver Whale Gallery, NYC; produced by Women’s Interart Center

Performer in Meredith Monk’s Recent Ruins, La Mama Annex, NYC; La Maison de la Culture de Nanterre, France; Center of Theatre Research, Milan, Italy

1976
 Exhibit of paintings, St Marks Church, NYC

Performer in Meredith Monk’s, Quarry, La Mama Annex, NYC; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; International Music Theatre Festival, Florence, Italy, The Venice Biennale, Italy; The Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.; The Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC

Performer in Meredith Monk & Ping Chong collaboration, The Travelogue Series: Paris/Venice-Milan/Chacon, The Roundabout Theatre NYC; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC; The Sigma Festival Bordeaux, France; Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; Royal Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; St Peter’s Church, NYC; Kennedy Center, Washington, DC; Joyce Theater, NYC

1975
 Directed Eric Salzman’s music drama, Lazarus, which premiered at La Mama NYC; Festival d’Autumne, Paris, France; Naples & Salerno, Italy

Co-created Stings with Margaret Beals, 92nd Street Y NYC; The Institute for Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, UK.

Performer in Meredith Monk’s & Ping Chong’s collaboration Chacon; Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

1974 Performer in Meredith Monk’s, Small Scroll, The Mickery Theatre, Amsterdam; Goddard College, Vermont; Center of Theater Research, Milan, Italy; Teatro Rondo di Bacco, Florence, Italy

1973 Exhibit of paintings, Dibdin Arts Center in Johnston, Vermont

Performer in Meredith Monk’s Education of the Girlchild, Common Ground Theatre, NYC; Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC; Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York; Festival d’Automne, Paris, France; Teatro Stabile, Torino, Italy; International Theater Festival, Japan; The Joyce Theatre, New York

1971 Joined Meredith Monk’s Company, The House, performer in Vessel: an opera epic; The House Gallery/ Performing Garage/Wooster Parking Lot, NYC

1961 Nagrin became the director of the New Playwright’s Theatre NYC, produced Robert Heide’s West of the Moon; Harry Tierney Jr’s The Blood Bugle

1960 Produced with James Spicer; Robert Heide’s play Hector, Kenneth Koch’s Pericles; Jean Cocteau’s Les Maries de la tour Eiffel

1958
 Appeared in the Film The Blob, Paramount Pictures



1952-1963
 During this period founded the following off-Broadway Theatres: The Downtown Theatre; The Sullivan Street Playhouse; Theatre One; The Bridge Theatre.

Produced some twenty plays that included: Eugene Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano and Jack; Ben Jonson, Valpone; John Stevens, Power of Dreams; Anton Chekhov’s On the Harmfulness of Tobacco; George Bernard Show The Man of Destiny

1954 Joined the Mad Anthony Players, Summer Stock, Toledo Ohio; Tennessee Williams, A Street Car Named Desire; Frederick Hugh Herbert, A Girl can Tell; William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, (Lead actress in all 3 productions.)

1954 Lead actress (known as Lee Patton) in Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, Royal Playhouse, NYC

1945-51 Member of the Seattle Repertory Theatre

1945-51 University of Washington, Seattle –Drama & English (Double Major) Music & Philosophy (Double Minor)