Lee Barton

Lee is a playwright, director, actor, solo performer, poet and guitarist. He wrote and directed his first play "Disengaged", performed at the Lorraine Hansberry Theater, for the 2000 San Francisco Fringe Festival and received a Sold Out Award. Several of his earlier solo pieces, including "Psychosexual Waterslide", were developed and performed through The Marsh Theater in San Francisco. Lee’s full length solo performance piece "Pentecostal Warhorses" was performed as part of the 2006 TerraNova Solo Arts Festival at Center Stage Theater in New York City. Lee’s second solo piece, "My Father Named Me After Liberace", received a staged reading at the Matthew Corozine Theater in July, 2007. In September 2007, Lee played Brian in Matthew Corozine’s Off-Off Broadway production of "The Shadowbox". Lee had a public reading of his second play "Whorapy" in March 2007 and has written the screenplays "Fishbowl Zipper", which is currently under consideration by a major independent producer, and Forever 23. Lee is also a new member of The Actor’s Project NYC and is also beginning a compilation of poems titled "Death of the White Apple".