Lee, a white nonbinary woman with blong rown hair, brown eyes, and wearing a popping red lipstick, smiles brightly in front of a green wall.

Lee Rosen

Co-Founder, Artist, Access Dramaturg

Lee Rosen (they/she) is a queercrip, multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Trained in fine art at CUNY Hunter College, Lee has experience with many visual mediums, including functional ceramics, ceramic sculpture, painting, drawing, illustration, and puppetry. Access Dramaturgy merges Lee’s creative, cultural and political interests, setting disability as a site of creative generation and world building. 

Lee’s recent artwork engages the viewer to re-think their biases about the disabled experience. In 2025 they began a series of oil paintings; character studies from the point-of-view of the wheelchair out in public spaces. Built especially for Opulent Mobility in 2025, Lee’s sculpture In/visible:In/valid features a disco mirror-covered leg brace, a dazzling and joyful counter to the punishing aesthetic of medical equipment.

Lee is a 2025 Ascend Fellow. A program designed by Keely Cat-Wells as part of her Making Space initiative, the Ascend Fellowship empowers disabled professionals to navigate careers of all stripes. Through coursework, networking, and lectures, Ascend has been an opportunity to realize the ways that disabled lived-experience translates to leadership and ingenuity. Lee has been working with Ascend and Making Space to make gains in access expertise as it pertains specifically to theatre and television production. 

Lee is also a screenwriter with three scripts in development, all featuring multiple disabled and queer characters, brazenly eschewing common tropes and representational failures associated with those identities. Disabled and queer people are not tragic, nor are they placed on this earth to inspire people. Lee writes complicated, specific characters with a light touch and an insider eye. 

Lee lives in Los Angeles with her two cats, George and Penny, and partner Daisy. 

Visual Art: 

Access Dramaturgy (with Dean Grosbard): ROOM BY THE SEA by John Guerra, a disability-centric retelling of the Icarus myth, opening in February 2026 (Coin and Ghost, Outside In, and After Hours Theatre Company). 

Education: 

  • BA Fine Art Ceramics, CUNY Hunter College

  • Feminist Acting Class facilitated by Gina Young

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