Lee Stickler began studying piano, voice and theatre as a child and continued throughout high school and college. While earning his BA in Theatre at UMASS Amherst he acted in dozens of plays and musicals including "Chicago" (Mary Sunshine), "O'Neill's Sea Plays", "Hair" and "The Merchant of Venice" with Liev Schreiber.As a student of Kristin Linklater at Shakespeare & Company he played Berowne in "Love's Labour's Lost". He completed his MFA in Acting through a teaching fellowship at West Virginia University, performing in "The Crucible", "What The Butler Saw", "Much Ado About Nothing", and Ionesco's "Killing Game". Lee returned to Boston to star on stage in "Psycho Beach Party", "Red Scare On Sunset", "Raft of the Medusa", "Hang Tough", "Execution of Justice" and "Search and Destroy" and began to book work in commercials and voice-overs. He was a founding member of The Harrison Project, a film/theatre cooperative with his acting coach Peter Kelley, before moving to Los Angeles.In LA, he started working behind the scenes as a post production supervisor, set dresser, ghost writer, and art director. He acted in various films, plays and musicals, co-produced "Joy of Singing!" training workshops with his mentor, Warren Lyons, and began singing with the world famous Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles. In 2011, he turned his attention to the growing problem of teen suicide and anti-LGBTQ violence and was hired as GMCLA's Community Relations and Youth Outreach manager, producing its free Alive Music Project presentations for thousands of students across Los Angeles and managing LA's first queer youth chorus, Outside Voices. Lee lives in Los Angeles with his longtime partner, writer/director Jay J. Levy. Together they produced Frieda's Turn (2015) starring Leslie Simms and Carolyn Hennesy, slated for release in 2015. Show less «