李名觉

李名觉（1930年10月3日-2020年10月23日），浙江宁波北仑小港人，美国耶鲁大学终身教授，著名华裔舞台设计大师，被誉为"世界当代舞台设计之泰斗"和"美国舞台设计界的一代宗师"。

1930年出生于上海，18岁随家人迁居香港，19岁赴美求学。他自小随母亲看戏、听歌剧和音乐会，由此步入戏剧艺术的殿堂。他曾师从美国一流舞台设计大师乔·梅尔金纳，长居纽约。毕业后就任美国耶鲁大学舞台设计系主任。

作为当今世界舞台设计领域"泰斗级"人物，李名觉的舞台设计艺术被称为"标示出美国舞台设计史上的转折点"，影响了自上世纪60年代以来的美国以及整个世界的戏剧界，是一个时代舞台艺术的象征，曾获得"美国国家艺术及人文奖"、"美国总统杰出贡献奖"以及百老汇"托尼奖"。在1985年出版的《美国舞台设计》(American Set Design)专书中，评价了当代最杰出的十位舞台设计家，其中除了李名觉之外，还有五位出自李氏门下。

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nytimes.com-Ming Cho Lee Fabled Set Designer Is Dead at 90

　Ming Cho Lee was born in Shanghai, China, on October 3, 1930. Lee’s early education included a variety of mission schools while also studying landscape painting with Chang Kwo Nyen. His first exposure to the theatre came during the Japanese occupation of China in the 1930’s-1940’s. His family moved to Hong Kong in 1948, and in 1949 he traveled to California to study art at Occidental College. He soon changed his major to theatre and had many opportunities to design; he and even acted and directed. He spent a year in graduate school at UCLA but, being dissatisfied, he went to New York at the suggestion of Edward F. Kook, the president of Century Lighting. Kook introduced him to Jo Mielziner for whom Lee worked from 1954 to 1958, working on such productions as Silk Stockings, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
　In 1955 Lee got his union card and designed two productions for the Grist Mill Playhouse, but was fired for making sets too elaborate and expensive. In 1958, he designed two Off-Off Broadway shows: The Infernal Machine at the Phoenix Theatre, and The Crucible. From 1959 to 1963 he worked at the Peabody Institute of Music in Baltimore where he designed sets and lights for nine productions.
　In 1962 Lee’s first design on Broadway was for The Moon Besieged, after a brief pursuit as resident designer at the San Franciso Opera in 1961. Upon his return to New York he was hired as resident designer for the New York Shakespearean Festival, where he worked for ten years.
The year 1970 brought two major advances for Ming Cho Lee. He became a professor of design and co-chairman of the Design Department at the Yale School of Drama. He was also was nominated for his first Tony Award for his design of Billy. Lee would not win the Tony Award for this production, not until his 1983 design of K2 did he procure the Tony.
　His wife is named Betsy and they reside in Manhattan’s Upper East Side is an apartment that has become more of a studio than anything else.