Tom Lee is a puppet artist, designer and director. He began his career at La MaMa Experimental Theater in New York. His work often exploress of manipulated objects, miniatures and figures in dialogue with film and animation. Mr. Lee grew up in Hawai’i and is a student of Japanese master puppeteer Koryū Nishikawa V with whom he created Shank’s Mare (2015) and Akutagawa (2023). His original work has toured the U.S., Japan, France, Bulgaria and Indonesia. Mr. Lee was a puppeteer in War Horse (Broadway), Florencia en el Amazonas (Met Opera), The Queen of Spades (Lyric Opera), Le Grand Macabre (NY Philharmonic), Disfarmer (St. Anns Warehouse).  He has been a principal puppeteer with Met Opera production of Madama Butterfly for 20 years. Tom has received mulitple Jim Henson Foundation grant awards and is co-director of the Chicago Puppet Studio and Chicago Puppet Lab.  www.tomleeprojects.com