Awards & Winners

Ming Cho Lee

Date of Birth 03-October-1930
Place of Birth Shanghai
(China)
Nationality United States of America, China
Profession Set Designer, Professor
Ming Cho Lee is a Chinese-born American theatrical set designer and a longtime professor at the Yale School of Drama. Lee, whose father was a Yale University graduate, 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.

Awards by Ming Cho Lee

Check all the awards nominated and won by Ming Cho Lee.

2002


Nominations 2002 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production Don Carlos

2001


Nominations 2001 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production K2

2000


Nominations 2000 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production The Merchant of Venice

1998


Nominations 1998 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production Mourning Becomes Electra

1996


Nominations 1996 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production Macbeth

1995


Obie Award for Lifetime Achievement
(Obie Award for Sustained Achievement)

1986


Nominations 1986 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design Execution of Justice

1983


Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Set and Lighting Design
Honored for : K2
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design
Honored for : K2
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design
Honored for : K2

Nominations 1983 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Set and Lighting Design K2
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design K2
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design K2

1970


Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design Billy

1969


Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design
Honored for : Billy
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design
Honored for : Invitation to a Beheading

Nominations 1969 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design Invitation to a Beheading
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design Billy