Ming Cho Lee
| Ming Cho Lee | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 李名覺 | ||||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 李名觉 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Lĭ Míngjué |
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| Romanization | [li miŋkoʔ] |
Ming Cho Lee (Chinese: 李名覺; pinyin: Lĭ Míngjué; born October 3, 1930 in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese American theatrical set designer and 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 (including eight productions for the Metropolitan Opera and thirteen for the New York City Opera, ballet, and regional theatres such as Arena Stage, the Mark Taper Forum, and the Guthrie Theater.
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