Lee Watson

Leland H. "Lee" Watson (1926 – December 8, 1989)⁷ was a Broadway and television lighting designer and theatre educator.⁵ His 1990 bio states that he worked "extensively in nearly all fields of lighting design."⁶

Watson was born in Charleston, Illinois and is a graduate of the University of Iowa. After military service that included fighting in the Battle of the Bulge, where his left hand was paralyzed, he returned to the US and received a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1952.⁷ Lee often spoke of his Yale classmate, Lighting designer Tharon Musser and struggling to survive in New York, "eating oranges that fell from fruit trucks."

Watson designed lighting for 42 Broadway productions,⁶ from 1955-1961. Watson's first Broadway design was Harbor Lights which opened on October 4, 1956. Watson was lighting designer for the Tony award-winning world premiere of The Diary of Anne Frank alongside Tony Award-winning Scenic designer Boris Aronson and Tony award-nominee Susan Strasberg as Anne in 1956. Other noted designs included the world premiere of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge with award-winning actor Richard Harris (1956), and A Moon for the Misbegotten at the now-demolished Bijou Theatre (1956).⁶⁷

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