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Screenplays Awards

Da Doo Waas©

Winner L.A.A.F. 2022

Silver Award for first time animation screenwriter feature.  www.laafest.com 

The JoJo Mama and the Voodoo Queen©

  Winner Best  Screenplay

Austin Comedy Film Festival May 2022

www.voodooqueen.info for 5 minute clip

SCABS©

Winner Best Shot Screenplay 

Oaxaca International Film Festival 2018.

Winner Best TV Series 

Portland Comedy Film Festival 2018.

Winner Best Short Screenplay 

Atlanta Comedy  Film Festival 2018

Picnik©

Winner Best Screenplay

Irvine International Film Festival 2021

Genie Says, WHAT?

Runner Up Short Films

Action On Film Megafest 2021  

 https://youtu.be/XvU2AIfWZWE


My Blog also see www.voodooqueen.info

For the Stage

Reposition© comedy full-length.

Reposition© comedy full-length.

Reposition© comedy full-length.

  

A man comes into the agency and requests the agency take his multi-million advertising account. The man resembles a stereotypical accountant but claims he is the devil. 

Recently revised.

Illustration by Len Bethel.

JoJo Mama and the Voodoo Queen©, comedy full-length.

Reposition© comedy full-length.

Reposition© comedy full-length.

    

A comedy based upon a mother’s love of an eccentric daughter immersed in art, greed and prejudice.  

Received Panelist Favorite Award from the late Michael Warren Powell at the Last Frontier Playwriting Festival.

www.voodooqueen.info


Hearing Art© drama full-length.

Reposition© comedy full-length.

Hearing Art© drama full-length.

 Vincent Van Gogh's masterpiece is featured in my new play, Hearing Art. The play was read in August by the talented actors under the direction of the talented director, Danielle Wirsansky at White Mouse Productions, Florida State University.  Thank you for the positive feedback and outstanding reading. 

SOS (Swans of Stratford)© comedy, full-length.

WFLO© comedy full-length.

Hearing Art© drama full-length.

  

An aspiring writer discovers there is more comedy in relationships than on stage when he takes eight strong, passionate women to Canada’s Stratford Festival during a ten year search for love.  

WFLO© comedy full-length.

WFLO© comedy full-length.

WFLO© comedy full-length.

  

Men in a support group share two problems: their inability to sustain healthy relationships with women and career frustration. They purchase a bankrupt radio station in a small Alabama town and convert it to a self-help, talk format. 

Recently revised.

Terrarium Earth© musical comedy, full-length.

WFLO© comedy full-length.

WFLO© comedy full-length.

 A madcap spoof of advertising, incorporating ASL (American Sign Language) highlights gender bias, racial inequality and the marketing of esoteric products.  

Music transcribed, Buffalo Guitar Quartet.

80% Lesbian© comedy 20 min.

80% Lesbian© comedy 20 min.

80% Lesbian© comedy 20 min.

 Father and daughter argument over his weekly blog that includes his daughter's declaration  she may be "80 Percent Lesbian." 

What's-Her-Name & Pete© comedy 25 min.

80% Lesbian© comedy 20 min.

80% Lesbian© comedy 20 min.

Comedy. Experimental. A traveling salesman checks into a famous NYC hotel to encounter the ghost of

 A traveling salesman checks into a famous NYC hotel to encounter the ghost of  a famous poet. 

Some of the Ten Minute Plays

SCABS© (1st ten-min.play)

SCABS© (1st ten-min.play)

SCABS© (1st ten-min.play)

Comedy.   

A strike at the hottest Latin Soap Opera forces the hiring of scab writers, actors, director, producer and makeup artists who really don’t speak Spanish. 

Parscription©

SCABS© (1st ten-min.play)

SCABS© (1st ten-min.play)

Comedy. After a vasectomy, a man who does not read his prescriptions, takes a prescription to a pharmacy to be filled. 

ML and Leo©

SCABS© (1st ten-min.play)

ML and Leo©

Comedy. Five to six minutes. What happens when ML sees her portrait for the very first time. Curtain Call Playhouse selected it as part of an eight play production in May.   

Performance dates are:

Willow Theatre, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton, Fl. 33432  561 347 3948

May 5 & 6 @ 8 pm; May 6 & 7 @ 2 pm

Charlotte Burrie Center, 2669 N. Federal Hwy., Pompano Beach, Fl. 33064.  954 786 5566 

May 13 @ 7 pm; May 14 @ 2 pm 

Sunrise Civic Center Theatre, 10610 W. Oakland Park Blvd., Sunrise, Fl. 33351.  954 747 4646

May 20 @ 2 & 7 pm 

Manhole©

4th Quarter Pick-Up©

ML and Leo©

Comedy. Three supervisors, two diggers and an overly curious homeowner. Three Anglicans above, two Hispanixs below and if you question city hall, you go to jail. Spanish and English.

Romans 8:32©

4th Quarter Pick-Up©

4th Quarter Pick-Up©

Drama.  A devoted husband of 32 years, desperately tries to obtain pain medicine for his terminally ill wife.  Reading May 23, 2022 during the dramatist Guild Gulf Coast Footlights and in March 2022  during the DG Florida Panhandle Footlights Footlights.

4th Quarter Pick-Up©

4th Quarter Pick-Up©

4th Quarter Pick-Up©

Comedy. Performed 2019  Optioned for a short film. A man pretending he is a sports buff tries to pick-up a woman at a bar. She is a sports nut. 

Fortune Kooky©

Shylock Texting©

Shylock Texting©

Comedy. Performed at Tampa Bay Theatre Festival 2017.  “ If you are familiar with the concept of a “found poem,” you will appreciate Lee Kitchen’s theatrical application of this idea in his clever short, FORTUNE KOOKY. After ten years of visits to Chinese restaurants, 95% of his dialogue is culled from the signature dessert. The story’s premise is simple, but there are immediate escalations and reversals that would make this play fun and challenging for its actors. Looking for a good short play for your festival? “Stop searching forever. Happiness is just next to you.” Greg Burdick, Playwright. 

Shylock Texting©

Shylock Texting©

Shylock Texting©

Comedy. Read at the SEC Conference, 2018. An actor in Shylock costume, debates with an English professor. Reality vs, theory. 

Nashville Taxi©

Shylock Texting©

Nashville Taxi©

Comedy. Inebriated couple  party until 2 am. They hail a musician cabbie who drives them home. He’s had weirder passengers, maybe not.

Screenplays and Film

Picnik©

Da Do Waa © animation

Da Do Waa © animation

Winner Best Screenplay at the recent Irvine International Film Festival.   

Jim Crow hysteria draws thousands to a southern town seeking vengeance on seven African American tenant farmers accused of butchering a landowner, wife, and small children. The human and inhuman side of people and an unsolved mystery. Based on real events.

Da Do Waa © animation

Da Do Waa © animation

Da Do Waa © animation

  

What happens when the military industrial complex’s design of the ultimate fighting creature escapes, multiplies and enslaves humans? Animated Sci-Fi with Music.

SCABS©

Da Do Waa © animation

REPOSITION © screenplay

Recently completed as a feature screenplay .

Comedy.   

A strike at the hottest Latin Soap Opera forces the hiring of scab writers, actors, director, producer and makeup artists who really don’t speak Spanish. 

REPOSITION © screenplay

The JoJo Mama and the Voodoo Queen©

REPOSITION © screenplay

  

Recently completed as screenplay.

A man comes into the agency and requests the agency take his multi-million advertising account. The man resembles a stereotypical accountant but claims he is the devil. 

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The JoJo Mama and the Voodoo Queen©

The JoJo Mama and the Voodoo Queen©

The JoJo Mama and the Voodoo Queen©

Comedy.   

A comedy based upon a mother’s love of an eccentric daughter immersed in art, greed and prejudice. 

The Doll Man (El hombre muñecas )©

The JoJo Mama and the Voodoo Queen©

The JoJo Mama and the Voodoo Queen©

Comedy.  A grieving, cartoonist husband unknowingly transforms his deceased wife’s muslin dolls into zany Samaritans who talk to each other but not to Doll Man, while discovering friendship, culture, and trouble in Mexico. 

Genie Says, WHAT?

The Audition (Bronco's Dolls Go to Hollywood)© Film

3 Dicks and a Willie©

  

Comedy with a message. 

Genie Says, WHAT?  created for the Easterseals Film Challenge   We filmed and edited the short, in four days, per the contest rules, thanks to our talented editor and camera person, Robert Proctor. 

Youtube link: https://youtu.be/XvU2AIfWZWE


3 Dicks and a Willie©

The Audition (Bronco's Dolls Go to Hollywood)© Film

3 Dicks and a Willie©

Comedy. What happens in this farce when Richard I, Richard II and Richard III return to modern time to sue William Shakespeare? 

The Audition (Bronco's Dolls Go to Hollywood)© Film

The Audition (Bronco's Dolls Go to Hollywood)© Film

The Audition (Bronco's Dolls Go to Hollywood)© Film

More Work and Testimonials

Commutin' Train, Forty Years Earlier

Commutin' Train, Forty Years Earlier

Commutin' Train, Forty Years Earlier

Misnomer by Henry

                       Misnomer by Henry

Click on the photographs in Blogs (above) for narratives.  I was twenty-two. Submitted the poems when I was 25 with three published in Writer's Digest and five in the Buffalo News. On of the earlier photographs accepted by The Sun.

Commutin' Train, Forty years Later

Commutin' Train, Forty Years Earlier

Commutin' Train, Forty Years Earlier

Forty years after.

                       First Session with Dr. Misnomer

                    Click on Blog photograph April 2 nd. 

The cockroach is now the therapist. Several of the new narratives or poems, feature therapy sessions with Dr. Misnomer, often about the work or writing created on the opposite page, from many years ago.

On the drawing board

Online With God, G-Mail, The Ultimate Icon

Online With God, G-Mail, The Ultimate Icon

Work in progress: 

New screenplays (Peyton and Pat's Story) , The Home (comedy, futuristic) Da Do Was's and of course, the Chicken series. 

 Joints (formerly  Long Walk Back). Draft of cover above. Fiction surrounded by a memoir.


Online With God, G-Mail, The Ultimate Icon

Online With God, G-Mail, The Ultimate Icon

Online With God, G-Mail, The Ultimate Icon

See recent review in DOWNLOAD Section from the Apalachee Review, issue 67.


"Brilliant! Short stories in email format." Dr. Xue (Tianhai). Tianjin Foreign Studies University. 

to Online With God Paperback on Amazon   

    

"There are so few humorists left. But if you are looking for one, then I can assure that you can find one in Mr.Cucina and his excellent book Online With God (G-Mail} The Ultimate Icon.His e-mails from God to characters ranging from Foghorn Leghorn to Steven Spielberg are guaranteed to cause you to chuckle or smile (the true humorist's  goal). Get it today. I promise you that you will not be disappointed and you will recommended to your friends. "  CV, Amazon Post.

  • Also see http://gmailthebooks.com

About Lee Kitchen

Playwright

Screenplays

Screenplays

https://newplayexchange.org/users/12288/lee-kitchen

Six full-length plays, seven completed screen plays, fourteen short plays. 


Participated in the Dramatist Guild Song Writer Circle and Master Playwriting class. Worked with  other lyricists and composers on four songs. An incredible  experience. 

Screenplays

Screenplays

Screenplays

 https://filmfreeway.com/rkitchen 


Picnik, a drama, received best feature screenplay at the recent Irvine International Film Festival.


Completed new spin off of The Audition titled The Doll Man. It is more GP friendly and hopefully more humorous to a broader audience.


The Audition (Bronco's Dolls  Go to Hollywood) 

"That short screenplay is t

 https://filmfreeway.com/rkitchen 


Picnik, a drama, received best feature screenplay at the recent Irvine International Film Festival.


Completed new spin off of The Audition titled The Doll Man. It is more GP friendly and hopefully more humorous to a broader audience.


The Audition (Bronco's Dolls  Go to Hollywood) 

"That short screenplay is the weirdest thing I’ve read in awhile and I mean that as a compliment because it doesn’t seem to be just an exercise of the writer’s mind but just so darn funny and an interesting story.  It is really funky and funny." From nationally recognized novelist and short story writer, April .


Completed Sci-Fi writing course via Sundance Collab Course with Philip Eisner as mentor/instructor.


Completed a  Sundance Collab course for TV writing. The experience (fabulous) helped me extend The Doll Man (El hombre muñecas ) 

into a sixty-minute pilot thanks so much to the outstanding instructors/leaders of the course (Brian Shin, Angela  La Manna and Liz Nord) --veteran  TV writers. 

Writer

Screenplays

Writer

In defense of what sounds egotistical : Chose the name of the website as Leekitchenwriter because  online search for the name, Lee Kitchen, generates a slew of restaurants. Some appear quite good.


Published Online with God as a self-publishing experiment and it is available via Amazon. 


Link to Online With God Paperback on Amazon   

Please  

In defense of what sounds egotistical : Chose the name of the website as Leekitchenwriter because  online search for the name, Lee Kitchen, generates a slew of restaurants. Some appear quite good.


Published Online with God as a self-publishing experiment and it is available via Amazon. 


Link to Online With God Paperback on Amazon   

Please  read the review from the Apalachee Review. 

Located on DOWNLOAD below.







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Hearing Art Rev October 25 2022FIRST TWENTY PAGES WITH CONTACT information (pdf)Download
Review of Spring Awakening by Lee Kitchen Monday Jan 5 2016 Revised (pdf)Download
Why I Write for Bob S class (pdf)Download
Book Review Online With God, Apalachee Review Issue 67 (jpg)Download
3 Dicks and a Willie Screenplay First Twenty Pages August 18 2020 (pdf)Download

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Line Drawing from Commutin' Train, Only on a Sunday Afternoon

Line Drawing from Commutin' Train, Only on a Sunday Afternoon

Line Drawing from Commutin' Train, Only on a Sunday Afternoon

I used to take my daughter, Lisa, to Central Park on Sundays. On the return train back to the Bronxville Station (we actually lived in Yonkers, a fourth floor walkup) a vendor would walk up and down the aisles. I don't think he had a license. Who knows? He would yell out, "Ice Cream! Ice cream! There will be no more food served on this train."

Line Drawing from Commutin' Train, Only on a Sunday Afternoon

Line Drawing from Commutin' Train, Only on a Sunday Afternoon

SCABS was developed into a feature screenplay. Awards were for the short screenplay. 

REPOSITION was also recently completed from a revised stage play into a feature screenplay. Both completed during during the past nine months.

Writing Commutin' Songs on rental guitar.

Writing Commutin' Songs on rental guitar.


 Illustration from commuting and business characters. 

Writing Commutin' Songs on rental guitar.

Writing Commutin' Songs on rental guitar.

Writing Commutin' Songs on rental guitar.

Took me a ride on a commutin' train

everyone looked alike and dressed the same...(More in manuscript, Commutin' Train). Song also used in first play, Terrarium Earth. Fourth-story walkup in Yonkers (Bronxville Station) when I worked for JWT, then the world's largest ad agency.

Mikel Fair awarding Best TV Series Pilot for SCABS

Portland Comedy Film Festival Director Mikel Fair with Goddaughter Rebecca and her husband Hutch.

Portland Comedy Film Festival 2018

Mikel Fair Director of the Portland Comedy Film Festival presenting the award for SCABS to Rebeca and Hutch  for me. 

Photo Gallery

Award ceremony Oaxaca 2018.

    Scenes from The Audition and poster for The JoJo Mama

    Resume, Background and Laurels

    Background

    Background

    Background


    Began career at J. Walter Thompson Advertising in New York and Chicago. Joined The Mentholatum Company as Marketing Director and member of the Executive Committee. Obtained MBA from University of Buffalo at nights while working as Marketing Director at the  Mentholatum Company. After receiving my MBA, I left corporate world to write full-time. Worked with the late NYC agent Glen Cowley on humor manuscript, MBA Guidebook.  Negotiating with Little Brown for advance when comparable book hit market. Learned a lesson: sent entire manuscript to several publishers a year before signing with agent.


    Started business, Freelance Network working with freelancers in North America. Joined a client, Greater Buffalo Press, later Sullivan Graphics and then American Graphics. 


    Left corporate world  again to write (a creative-non-fiction historical novel) that is now a screenplay, Picnik. Worked with the late Toni Mendez in NYC on humor book, Political Folksay  with artist Steve Sweny. Wrote first play that received recognition, JoJo Mama & The Voodoo Queen. Taught at colleges and universities while writing, leaving academia July 2016 to write  full-time.

    Education

    Background

    Background


    • BS and MA Journalism, University of Alabama. 
    • After leaving corporate world again, participated in the Alabama Writer's Project (Poetry and Short Story Courses)  studied under Marlin Barton (O'Henry Prize Winner) and poet, Peter Huggins. 
    • Moved to Tallahassee and participated in classes with Bob Shacochis and Janet Burroway at Florida State University. 
    • Attended workshops at Last Frontier Conference and Dramatist Guild in New York and LA. 
    • MBA degree in Buffalo when I simultaneously developed humor manuscript, MBA Guidebook, while attending classes.
    • Participated in Dramatist Guild Master Playwriting Course 2018.
    • Completed Roland Tech's Songwriting Circle 2018. 
    • Completed Sundance Collab Basic TV Writing Course and Sci-Fi Writing Course 2020 and 2021.

    Service

    Background

    Languages


    Board member of The Peyton Tuthill Foundation. Provides scholarships to students who've lost a family member to homicide.   www.peytontuthillfoundation.org  


    Instructor for study abroad programs for FSU in Spain, London and China. Later, program director for Tallahassee Community College study abroad programs in Tianjin, China. Traveled to China for over ten years.

    Honorary Professor Tianjin Foreign Studies University

    Languages

    Associations

    Languages

    Some ASL, minimal Mandarin and elementary Spanish

    Associations

    Associations

    Associations

    Dramatist Guild, Playwrights Guild of Canada.



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