JENNIFER PAULSON-LEE
SDC DIRECTOR / CHOREOGRAPHER
Co-author and Director : According to Howard, a new musical about an individual who helped shape the world of aviation, film, business and Hollywood gossip, leaving a legacy of philanthropy and intrigue, billionaire Howard Robard Hughes Jr.
Ms. Lee’s credits include co-author of Frank Wildhorn’s revised WONDERLAND alongside longtime collaborator Gabriel Barre. This newly revised version of “WONDERLAND” will be available for license via MTI beginning fall 2024 following a successful run at Tuacahn Center for the Arts, Utah. As choreographer, other credits include MCP’s concert production of The Scarlet Pimpernel at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall starring Tony Yazbeck, Laura Osnes and Norm Lewis. Currently running on 3 vessels is Magic To Do, under a special partnership between Princess Cruises and Stephen Schwartz. Other credis: RAGS with NYU’s Steinhardt School of Vocal Performance; Susannah (St. Petersburg Opera); Camelot (Ft. Worth’s Casa Manana Theatre); City of Angels, Dear World; A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Finian’s Rainbow (nominated –Best Choreography – CT Critics Circle), Just So, Houdini and Sweeney Todd (Goodspeed Opera House); Enter Laughing, the musical (associate Dir./Choreographer – York Theatre NYC, Bay Street in Sag Harbor and Mark Taper in LA); and HMS Pinafore, The Consul (Opera NJ). As part of an initiative to bring immediate healing to the Sandy Hook community, Ms. Lee choreographed Seussical, the musical, working with director Michael Unger starring John Tartaglia, and premiered A Rockin’Midsummer Night’s Dream with Marla Mindell and Clarke Thorell. Other professional work includes choreography for the Broadway workshop of Little Women: the musical; Annie Get Your Gun (Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont with Patti LuPone); The Four Seasons Vivaldi Concert (Vancouver Symphony, Alice Tully Hall and Tsai Performing Arts Center in Boston). Off Broadway: Stars in Your Eyes, The Last Starfighter; Lola, the musical. Also, Fables in Slang and Tintypes (Melting Pot Theatre). R&H’s Cinderella (Paper Mill Playhouse and Ogunquit Playhouse); West Side Story (Pioneer Theatre – Utah). All About Us (Kander and Ebb with book by Joe Stein based on Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth). The Rink (Cape Playhouse); Mel Marvin’s The Book of Candy. Pericles and A Child’s Christmas in Wales for Shakespeare Theatre of NJ. Other regional: Zorro, Guys and Dolls, Jerry’s Girls; Jacques Brel is Alive and Well; NY Musical Theatre Festival: Behind the Limelight, Tim & Scrooge. Bookends, a Musical at NJ Rep. A Christmas Carol at The McCarter Theatre (re-staging and choreography supervisor from 2006-2015); Princeton’s Triangle Club Heist Almighty and the Princeton University’s 250th Triangle Club Show, The Tiger Roars.
Directing credits: Flyer, the musical; A Time To Be Born; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Amanda Green at the WestBank, Beyond Measure and 2Life. Ms. Lee has danced for and/or assisted many notable director/choreographers of our time, including Jerome Robbins and Susan Stroman (PBS Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and 110 in the Shade NYC Opera – Principal Dancer). Ms. Lee holds a BFA in Dance from East Carolina University.