Lee Brooks

Date of Birth 26 February 1983, Acton, Massachusetts, USA Birth Name Lee Raymond Brooks Height 5' 11½" (1.82 m) Mini Biography Brooks began performing at an early age, singing, dancing and acting primarily to an audience of family and friends. From his interpretive performance of the Ghostbusters theme to an impersonation of Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone (_The Godfather (1972)_) in his 6th grade play, Lee has always had a love for voices, music and the magic of the movies.

Throughout high school, Lee participated in various music, radio, film and theatre activities, including the Massachusetts Junior Districts Music Festival, playing woodwinds in high school musicals (Bye-bye Birdie, West Side Story), and serving as first chair saxophonist and student president of the ABRHS music program. Despite not having acted earlier, Lee was cast and starred in several award-winning roles in productions including David Ives' "The Universal Language", "Guys and Dolls", and on-stage adaptations of "My Last Dutchess" and "I love Lucy" (1951).

Lee arrived in New York City for college just in time for the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center (he lived on Washington Square Park West at the time). He served as founding President of the Undergraduate student Composer's Society (USCS) and NYU chapter of the Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI) from 2002-2004, for which he won a Leadership award along with his good friend, Avery Brooks.

Starting in 2002, he began composing, recording and producing music, and by his graduation in 2005, Lee had to his credit 4 self-produced albums as well as musical scores and sound design accompanying over 25 Music for multimedia productions, including theatrical shows ('SEX: a.k.a. Wieners and Boobs'), dance pieces (for the South Asian dance troupe, NASHA), television cues (for "NYU Tonight" and "NYU Cribs"), and over 20 film scores, many of which have gone on to festivals. He also acted for a handful of student film shorts.

Lee has worked with composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa ("The Wild Party," "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"), VH1 'Driven (2002)': Anna Kournikova, the New York City Opera, Dr. Lawrence Ferrara (music Copyright Infringement Expert Witness) and others. He currently resides in New York City as a composer, musician, web designer, DVD author and producer. Trivia Appears in a deleted scene in "Good Will Hunting" during a segment which follows Matt Daemon walking down the streets of South Boston on St. Patrick's Day. It is Lee's High School band, Acton-Boxborough Regional High Scool, which is marching in the 1997 St. Patrick's Day Parade.Afraid he wouldn't be accepted to any of them, applied to 9 colleges, including: the Berklee college of music, The New England Conservatory, Boston University, Manhattan School of Music, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, SUNY at Purchase, Mannes School of Music, New School Jazz and Contemporary Program, and New York Unversity. He was accepted to all 9 and attended NYU.He has scored music for over 25 films from directors in New York City and Los Angeles, including two student films, one which was showcased at the 2005 Telluride Film Festival, and one which was a 2005 Student Academy Awards Finalist.In his senior year of high school, he won the Woody Herman Jazz Award, Best Senior Actor, Best Male Actor, Best Rookie Actor, and was commissioned by the senior class to compose the music and words for a fight song and alma mater.Son of a computer hardware/software testing engineer and a Large Family Child care provider in Acton, Massachusetts.Plays saxophone, clarinet, flute, guitar, piano and bass.
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