EPISODE 32:
JOHN LEE BEATTY - SET DESIGNER
Host: Ethan Steimel
Release Date: 12/07/2020
Release Date: 12/07/2020
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Set designer John Lee Beatty discusses the business of design, intricacies of retirement planning, and the importance of talking about finances.
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Links and Resources
United Scenic Artists (USA) Union - Local 829
USA 829 Pension & 401k Plan - some light reading!
Elite Tax Service (JLB's tax service)
AARP Magazine
What is a mutual fund?
Santo Loquasto - JLB is the "poor man's Santo Loquasto"
Ken Billington - lighting designer of Chicago
Jane Greenwood - Costume Designer (was married to Ben Edwards)
Ben Edwards - Set Designer (was married to Jane Greenwood)
John Singer Sargent - Painter
Eduard Vuillard - Painter
Franz Kline - Painter
Extras In The Patreon Episode
Listen to our extended discussion with John Lee Beatty by becoming a patron! Thank you for your ongoing support.
Broadway Design Exchange - signed John Lee Beatty renderings for sale
Ming Cho Lee - Stage Designer - JLB's professor at Yale
Jo Mielziner - Stage Designer
Robert Edmond Jones - Stage Designer - Author of The Dramatic Imagination
Max Reinhardt - Theatre and Film Director
Artistic Finanace - Episode 1: Peter Kaczorowski interview
John Lee Beatty
Set Designer
Internet Broadway Database - John Lee Beatty
A titan of American theatre, John Lee Beatty designed his first Broadway show in 1976. It was the play Knock, Knock. 44 years later, his most recent design is Plaza Suite, which hasn’t officially opened because of the COVID 19 shutdown.
The total count of his Broadway designs is 115. He has won two Tony Awards, one for Tally’s Folly in 1980 and the second for The Nance in 2013. He has received an additional 13 Tony nominations, has won 5 Drama Desk awards, and has been nominated for 10 more.
Some of those Broadway credits are Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Odd Couple, Other Desert Cities, The Color Purple, and the 1996 revival of Chicago, which is the second longest running Broadway musical of all time, only behind The Phantom of the Opera.
John Lee has also designed more than 70 shows at Manhattan Theatre Club and more than 66 productions of Encores! at City Center. Additionally he has designed for tours, West End, and regional productions. He has also made a reputation of working on new plays, which constitutes the bulk of his portfolio and given way to what he is known for: house interiors and exteriors and their attached gardens.
USA 829 Pension & 401k Plan - some light reading!
Elite Tax Service (JLB's tax service)
AARP Magazine
What is a mutual fund?
Santo Loquasto - JLB is the "poor man's Santo Loquasto"
Ken Billington - lighting designer of Chicago
Jane Greenwood - Costume Designer (was married to Ben Edwards)
Ben Edwards - Set Designer (was married to Jane Greenwood)
John Singer Sargent - Painter
Eduard Vuillard - Painter
Franz Kline - Painter
Extras In The Patreon Episode
Listen to our extended discussion with John Lee Beatty by becoming a patron! Thank you for your ongoing support.
Broadway Design Exchange - signed John Lee Beatty renderings for sale
Ming Cho Lee - Stage Designer - JLB's professor at Yale
Jo Mielziner - Stage Designer
Robert Edmond Jones - Stage Designer - Author of The Dramatic Imagination
Max Reinhardt - Theatre and Film Director
Artistic Finanace - Episode 1: Peter Kaczorowski interview
John Lee Beatty
Set Designer
Internet Broadway Database - John Lee Beatty
A titan of American theatre, John Lee Beatty designed his first Broadway show in 1976. It was the play Knock, Knock. 44 years later, his most recent design is Plaza Suite, which hasn’t officially opened because of the COVID 19 shutdown.
The total count of his Broadway designs is 115. He has won two Tony Awards, one for Tally’s Folly in 1980 and the second for The Nance in 2013. He has received an additional 13 Tony nominations, has won 5 Drama Desk awards, and has been nominated for 10 more.
Some of those Broadway credits are Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Odd Couple, Other Desert Cities, The Color Purple, and the 1996 revival of Chicago, which is the second longest running Broadway musical of all time, only behind The Phantom of the Opera.
John Lee has also designed more than 70 shows at Manhattan Theatre Club and more than 66 productions of Encores! at City Center. Additionally he has designed for tours, West End, and regional productions. He has also made a reputation of working on new plays, which constitutes the bulk of his portfolio and given way to what he is known for: house interiors and exteriors and their attached gardens.
