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Kaiulani Lee brings over 35 years of experience in theater, film, and television. She has appeared in more than a dozen plays both on and off Broadway, earning a Drama Desk Award nomination and winning the Obie Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Achievement.
Her television credits include guest roles on series such as "The Waltons" and "Law & Order." She began her film career with "The World According to Garp" and continued with roles in "A Civil Action" and "A Bird of the Air." Lee portrayed Martha Ballard in the acclaimed PBS film "A Midwife's Tale." For the past 24 years, she has performed her one-woman play, *A Sense of Wonder*, which explores the life and work of Rachel Carson. This play has been a highlight at regional and national conferences on conservation, education, journalism, and the environment. She has presented it at over 100 universities, numerous high schools, the Smithsonian Institution, the Albert Schweitzer Conference at the United Nations, the Department of the Interior’s 150th anniversary celebration, and in 2007, on Capitol Hill, reviving Miss Carson’s voice in Congress. *A Sense of Wonder* has also been performed throughout every province in Canada and in England, Italy, India, and Japan.
In 2007, Bill Moyers featured Ms. Lee in an hour-long interview on *Bill Moyers Journal*, celebrating her work. The play was later filmed by award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler, showcased at film festivals in the U.S., Canada, and Japan, and broadcast nationally on PBS.
In 2011, Lee’s second play, *Can't Scare Me... The Story of Mother Jones*, premiered at Washington D.C.’s Atlas Theater. She now tours both plays nationally and internationally.
Ms. Lee holds a B.A. from American University and studied acting under Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen, and Jerzy Grotowski. Since 1997, she has been a full-time adjunct professor at George Mason University. She also taught at NYU’s Kanbar Institute of Film and Television for four years and has conducted master classes at universities nationwide for the past two decades.
She has received two Asian Cultural Council Grants (2014 and 2016) and holds honorary doctorates from Bowdoin and Unity Colleges in recognition of her contributions and excellence in the arts.
