
Lee Phenner
Lyricist/Book Writer
Lee Phenner is a playwright, book writer, lyricist, and voice actor. An Oregon Shakespeare Festival Black Swan Lab writer for A Pint of Understanding (music by Joel LaRue Smith and Joseph Smith), works include the dramatic monologue Synaptic Fires produced by Brave New World Rep; the dramatic monologue cycle Mine; screenplay Celia Now and Then, and the concept and text of Circle of the First, a choral work with music by Robert D. Terrio.
Lee holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College where she received Duprey awards for screenwriting and poetry and was selected for the Ploughshares International Fiction Seminar at Kasteel Well, Netherlands.
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A proud member of the Dramatists Guild, Maestra Music, New Play Exchange, and Honor Roll, she lives in Newburyport, Massachusetts with her wife Mary Dean Taylor. Learn more at leephenner.com/words-music.
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