chronology

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

Lee died June 7, 2007.

2005
Exhibition of a series of watercolor paintings at Galerie Atelier Herenplaat, Rotterdam.

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

2000
Wrote and directed The Valley of Iao presented at La Mama Annex, co-produced by La Mama, New York in association with Dance Street Productions, Inc. 

1999
Performer in dance film Rolling by Alain Le Razer, choreography by Lorn MacDougal. Screened at The Ohio Theatre, New York and 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, New York. 

1996
Directed Pathways, created and performed by Margaret Beals, the Loft Theatre, New York, Joyce Soho, Gloucester Stage, MA and was named One of the Ten Best Theatre Works of the Year by the Boston Globe.

Performer in film directed by Yvonne Rainer, Murder and murder.

1994-1995
Performed in Karen Malpede’s Beekeeper’s Daughter in a role written for her. Performed at the Silver Whale Gallery, New York and the Dionysia World Festival of Contemporary Drama, Italy. 

1995
Video production of Sky Fish produced by Doris Chase Concepts 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 OBIE Award winning playwright W. David Hancock at the Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage.

1994
Created & Directed Angel’s Elegy premiered at Silver Whale Gallery, New York, production ran for three months.

1992
Performed in Karen Malpede’s production Blue Heaven at the Theatre for the New City, New York.

1990
Created & Directed Dragon’s Nest, a three-hour long epic is presented at La Mama Annex, New York in association with Women’s Interart Center.

1987
Bird/Bear is screened at the Angelika Movie Theatre, New York and at the Berlin Film Festival in Germany.

1986
Created & Directed Bone Orchard performed at the Silver Whale Gallery, New York.

Created & Directed Bird/Bear performed at Silver Whale Gallery, New York..

Bird/Bear wins the OBIE for Best New American Play.

1982
Created & Directed Whorl a site-specific piece performed at Danspace, St Marks Church. Produced by Women’s Interart Center. The production ran two months.

Performer in Meredith Monk’s Education of the Girlchild Parts 1 & 2. Japan Tour 
 
1981
Performer in Meredith Monk’s Film, Ellis Island

1978
Exhibit of paintings, Second Floor Gallery, New York 

1979
Forms her company The Sky Fish Ensemble.

Created & Directed four works: Sky Fish, Bird/Devil, Sideshow, and Other Sideshow, at the Silver Whale Gallery, New York. Produced by Women’s Interart Center.

Performer in Meredith Monk’s Recent Ruins, La Mama Annex, New York.

1977
Performer in Meredith Monks, Travelogue Series-Paris/Venice-Milan/Chacon. Roundabout Theatre, New York

1976
Exhibit of paintings St Marks Church in the Bowery.

Performed in Meredith Monk’s, Quarry, La Mama Annex, New York.

Performed in a Meredith Monk and Ping Chong collaboration, Venice/Milan. OBIE Award for Outstanding Achievement. La Mama Annex, NYC, Brooklyn Academy of Music NYC, International Music Festival Florence, The Venice Biennale, The Kennedy Center, Washington DC, The Spoleto Festival, Charleson SC.

1975
Directed Eric Salzman’s Lazarus, which premiered at La Mama New York followed by a tour to Rome, Salerno, Chieri and Paris.

Co-created Stings with Margaret Beals (using final "Ariel" poems of Sylvia Plath.)Premiered at the 92nd Street Y, New York and was presented at the Institute for Contemporary Arts Theatre (ICA) in London, UK.

Performed in Meredith Monk's, Small Scroll, St Marks Church, New York.Performed in Meredith Monk and Ping Chong collaboration, Chacon, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio 

1974
Performed in Meredith Monk’s Education of The Girlchild, Common Ground Theatre and Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York.

1973
Exhibit of paintings, Didin Arts Center in Johnston, Vermont.

Performed in Meredith Monk and Ping Chong collaboration Paris, The House Loft, New York

1971
Joined Meredith Monk’s Company, The House, performing in Vessel at The House Loft, The Performing Garage, and Wooster Parking Lot, all in New York.

1958
Appeared in Film The Blob, Paramount Pictures

1952-1963
During this period founded the following downtown Theatres: Downtown Theatre, Sullivan Street Playhouse, Theatre One with Kelsey Marechal, Bridge Theatre. Produced some twenty plays that included: Ionesco’s The Bald Saprono and Jack. (First to produce Ionesco in the USA) Valpone, & Power of Dreams by John Stephens

Link to 10-page interview from Contact Quarterly in PDF format.