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Description:
Ming Cho Lee
(born October 3, 1930,
Shanghai
,
China
) is a Chinese-born American theatrical
set designer
and a longtime professor at the
Yale School of Drama
.
Lee, whose father (Lee Tsu Fa) was a Yale University graduate (1918), moved to the United States in 1949 and attended
Occidental College
. He first worked on
Broadway
as a second assistant set designer to
Jo Mielziner
on
The Most Happy Fella
in 1956. Lee's first Broadway play as Scenic Designer was "The Moon Besieged" in 1962; he went on to design the sets for over 20 Broadway shows, including
Mother Courage and Her Children
,
King Lear
,
The Glass Menagerie
,
The Shadow Box
,
and
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
. He has won the
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design
, a
Helen Hayes Award
, and in 1983 he received a
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design
for
K2
. He has also designed sets for opera, ballet, and regional theatres such as
Arena Stage
, the
Mark Taper Forum
, and the
Guthrie Theater
.
He designed over 30 productions for
Joseph Papp
at
The Public Theater
, including the original Off-Broadway production of
Hair
.
Since 1969, Lee has taught at the Yale School of Drama, where he is currently co-chair of the Design Department.
He is on the Board of Directors for
The Actors Center
in
New York, NY
.
Lee was inducted into the
American Theatre Hall of Fame
in 1998, and was awarded the
National Medal of Arts
in...
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