Lee Dunholter

Lee Dunholter (Set Design for Lettice and Lovage) is just finishing his 26th year of teaching at Franklin Pierce College a position he has thanks to Bob Alvin, Sally Brown and Chuck Morey. He has taught many courses in both the Theatre and Fine Arts departments and is currently the coordinator of the Experiencing the Arts program at FPC. The Theatre program at FPC has received numerous awards, and their production of ...but the rain is full of ghosts was selected to perform at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 2003 in Washington DC. Lee's scenic design for this production was recognized for Special Achievement in Scenic Design. Lee is also especially proud to have had the scenic designs of one of his students (Andrew Stuart who sometimes works at Andy's Summer Playhouse) receive an award as the outstanding ACTF student scenic designer of 1999. Lee also, for the last nine years, designed and painted the backdrop for the NHDI (NH Dance Institute) performance at Keene State College. Past design credits at the Players include Fully Committed (twice), Return of the Prodigal, A Wrinkle in Time, Going to St. Ives, Always…Patsy Cline, Full Gallop, Mr. Pim Passes By, Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, ART, A Coupla of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, Charlotte's Web, The Enormous Egg, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Educating Rita, and Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill. Lee also designed the sets for three Players high school productions, this year’s Museum, Peg O' My Heart and Light up the Sky. Lee and his wife Susan were the principle designers of the interactive World Room exhibits at the former Monadnock Children's Museum in Keene. Recently their work was on display at the Currier Museum in Manchester HN. Lee also designed settings for the NH Presidential Candidates Youth Forum 2000, held at St. Anselm College broadcast over C-Span. And his work has been seen from time to time on stage with the Raylynmor Opera. Lee began his theatre career at Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati and has worked at numerous theatres across the country, including Center Stage, Baltimore, Century City Playhouse and the Odyssey Theatre, LA, Cape Cod Melody Tent, Hyannis, North Shore Music Theatre, Beverly MA, and the Bridge Experimental Theatre, NYC, and as a student with Hasty Pudding Theatricals, to name a few. (2005)

Past Productions

Fully Committed, 2004
The Return of the Prodigal, 2004
Going to St. Ives, 2003
Always...Patsy Cline, 2003
Full Gallop, 2002
Mr. Pim Passes By, 2002
Fully Committed, 2001
ART, 2001
A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, 2000
Light Up the Sky, 1999
Educating Rita, 1999
Peg o' My Heart, 1998
The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, 1998
Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, 1998
The Enormous Egg, 1997
Charlotte's Web, 1996