Franne Lee, a born artist, was schooled in set and costume design at the  Univeristy of Wisconsin at Madison.   She began her professional career in New York theatre with Andre Gregory's "Alice in Wonderland" for which she received an Obie Award for Costumes. Her many Broadway credits also include Hal Prince's productions of "Candide"  and "Sweeney Todd" for which franne received Tony Awards for Costume  Design for both productions. Her film credits include John Sayles' "Baby It's You", Paul Simon's  "One Trick Pony",  David Lynchs’"Industrial Symphony #1" and Al Pacino's  "Chinese Coffee" Franne's TV credits include the first five years of Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award for Sets and Costumes.   More TV work followed when franne moved to LA in 1995 where she designed "Sherman Oakes" for Showtime and "Roseanne" for King World. In 1998 Franne moved to Nashville and designed the production for "On Music Row" along with co-writers and co-stars David Alford and Robert Lynn.  This was the beginning of franne's road to designing local music videos, commercials and theatre.  Last fall she designed the costumes for  “Waiting for Godot”, a production of the Peoples Branch Theatre. On Nov. 10th 2001, franne opened the Plowhaus, a new Artists' Cooperative in East  Nashville, bringing her full circle back to her artist roots.  She also teaches Production Design at Watkins School of Art and Design and this spring will be teaching a course in costume design at Belmont Univ., franne loves living and working in Music City .

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