張己任：〈李名覺—享譽美國的舞台布景設計家〉，1981，收入《音樂‧人物與觀念》309~18
CPTV & WNPR: Spotlight on the Arts - Ming Cho Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO7pHXcJJ7k
生平[編輯]
出生於上海，父親是1919年耶魯大學的畢業生，舅父是1918年的耶魯大學畢業生。1949年，19歲，高中輟學後，10月時搬到加州，一開始在洛杉磯的Occidental College當藝術學生，（是全校900人之中3位華人之一）此時他開始發展對舞台和戲劇的興趣。在UCLA畢業一年後，李名覺搬到紐約工作，曾師事美國一流的舞臺設計大師喬·梅爾金納。他的第一個舞台設計作品是1962年百老匯的The Moon Besieged。
1970年他的舞台設計作品Billy第一次被百老匯聲譽最高的東尼獎提名，1983年，他以Patrick Meyer編劇的K2的舞台設計獲得東尼獎。此後他長居紐約，並陸續贏得相當多大獎。包括美國總統傑出貢獻獎、2002年的美國國家藝術及人文獎（National Medal of Arts）等。在美國僅有4位亞洲人獲得國家級藝術類獎章，其中包括李名覺和大提琴演奏家馬友友。李名覺的夫人是英國人貝茜·蕾伯特Betsy Lee。
2013年東尼獎宣布授予終身成就獎給三位得獎人，李名覺為其中一位。
外部連結[編輯]
2002 Medal of Arts Recipients 有李名覺和美國第一夫人的合影
李名覺的成名作：莎士比亞節中的舞台設計作品
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| Traditional Chinese | 李名覺 | ||
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| Simplified Chinese | 李名觉 | ||
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Ming Cho Lee (Chinese: 李名覺; pinyin: Lĭ Míngjué; born October 3, 1930 in Shanghai, China)[1] is a Chinese American theatrical set designer and professor at the Yale School of Drama.
Biography[edit]
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.
He designed over 30 productions for Joseph Papp at The Public Theater, including the original Off-Broadway production of Hair (musical).
Since 1969, Lee has taught at the Yale School of Drama, where he is currently co-chair of the Design Department. In February 2017, he announced that he would be retiring at the end of the fall semester.[2]
He is on the Board of Directors for The Actors Center in New York, NY.
Lee is the subject of Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design by Arnold Aronson, which was published by TCG Books in 2014.[3]
Awards and Honors[edit]
Lee was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1998,[4] and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2002.[5] In 1995, he won the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence for his consistent and valuable contributions to the theatrical community.[6]
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