Acclaimed Set Designer, Yale Professor Dies

Connecticut Public Radio | By Matt Dwyer

Published October 27, 2020 at 1:35 PM EDT

Award-winning set designer and longtime Yale professor Ming Cho Lee has died. The New York Times reports that Lee passed away Friday in Manhattan at the age of 90. He taught at Yale for five decades, and greatly influenced the designs of sets in live productions including plays, operas and dance in the United States.

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