Lee Hollingsworth

Lee was born in Scottsdale, AZ to funny car racer and car salesman Edward Hollingsworth and his wife Deberoh. He is the grandson of William F. Long a Stuntman and Alberta Rose Willet mother of famed Oscar Winner Richard Portman. Because of this Lee has been interested in the theater since his early years whereupon his first show "Cloud Dancer" whom is dad had provided vehicles for the show. At Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH) Elementary School one of his fellow students helped play E.T. in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial allowing him to get further interested in theater. While attending he was a dancer for a performance of "Cinderella". He went on to attend Coronado High School with famed instructors being drama teacher Jim Newcomer and dance instructor Irma Griffen. He went onto background dancing in several plays and speaking roles in a couple. Due to Newcomer Lee became interested in technical theater and video production whereupon he went to Scottsdale Vocational Technical Center for TV/Video Production and became a VICA class, school, regional, and state officer holding positions as State Parliamentarian, Regional President, and other offices. Lee also became an employee for Maricopa Community College School district as a Videographer for Coronado HS Basketball for their team and community cable access channels 33 and 34 as a cable programmer. He was also Assistant Technical Director for Associated Childrens Theater of Scottsdale(ACTS) and many professional Haunted Houses. In 1992 he started working for Rhino Staging, where he has worked with clients that include President Bush, President Clinton, IBM, Boys and Girls Clubs Technology, BlueMan Group, Oak Ridge Boys, and over 100 other groups. Jobs he has done with them has included Video, Camera Operator, Lighting Director and Technician, audio engineer, and stagehand. While on the movie set, "The Getaway" his wife, Mary, went into false labor and a few weeks later had their first son Michael, 1993. While working for United Artists Cinemas, his second son Nathaniel, 1994 was born. Unfortunately, Nathaniel Lee passed of SIDS at the age of 4 months. Not being deterred by having a son die in 1995 he had a son Thomas born in Las Vegas, Nevada and than even with grave warnings about how bad his daughter was going to be, she was diagnosed with Spina Bifida and Hydracephulas while in her mothers womb, so in Aug 1997 they had a daughter named Faith, whom God blessed to not be in a wheel chair or have any big health issues.