Kay Lee is a Los Angeles-based Production Designer known for character-driven dramas and coming-of-age stories, with upcoming work on Netflix limited series All the Sinners Bleed (Amblin TV & Higher Ground). Her collaborators include Spike Lee, Karyn Kusama, Joe Robert Cole, Aziz Ansari, Nisha Ganatra, and Maggie Betts, among many others. Beyond film and television work, she has designed commercial work for brands including Facebook, Target, L'Oréal, and AMEX, and music videos for artists including Eminem.
Her recent body of work spans festival darlings and studio features alike, including Freakier Friday (Disney), The Burial (Amazon/MGM), Good Fortune (Lionsgate), Destroyer (Annapurna), and Hot Summer Nights (A24). She received an Art Directors Guild nomination for HBO's Euphoria and SDSA nominations for her design work on Freakier Friday and Insecure.
She got her start designing student films in New York before catching the attention of Spike Lee, who hired her to design his independent film Da Sweet Blood of Jesus — an early break that set her on a path defined by close collaboration with distinctive directorial voices. She graduated from Brown University with Honors in Visual Arts and Urban Studies, receiving the Ann Belsky Moranis Prize for artistic excellence, before beginning her career as a fashion and technical designer for companies including Ralph Lauren and The Gap, alongside costume design work for Off-Broadway theater.