Ming Cho Lee
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Ming Cho Lee (born 1930, Shanghai) is a leading American theatrical set designer and a longtime professor at the Yale School of Drama.
Lee, born to parents who were both Yale University graduates, moved to the United States in 1949 and attended Occidental College. He first worked on Broadway as a second assistant set designer on The Most Happy Fella in 1956. Lee's first Broadway play as lead 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, and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf. He won three Drama Desk Awards for set design, a Helen Hayes Award, and a Tony Award for scenic design in 1983 for the play "K2". He has also designed sets for opera, ballet, and regional theatres such as Arena Stage, the Mark Taper Forum, and the Guthrie Theater.
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 Washington, DC.
Lee is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2002.
