New leadership for design department
Alumnus and Yale Rep resident set designer Michael Yeargan ’73MFA has taken on a new role at the drama school as cochair of the design department, alongside current cochair Stephen Strawbridge ’83MFA. He succeeds Donald M. Oenslager Professor Ming Cho Lee, who will continue to teach full-time in the design department, which he chaired or cochaired for more than four decades. Yeargan will also serve as set design adviser for Yale Repertory Theatre, in addition to his current position as resident set designer.
Dean James Bundy ’95MFA credits Ming Cho Lee with keeping the school and its graduates “at the absolute forefront of the field” of design and adds that Yeargan’s “extraordinary sophistication… deeply resourceful creativity, and… most generous collaborative spirit” make him “uniquely positioned” to help provide “the next generation of leadership to the design department.” Michael Yeargan has taught at the drama school since 1973. He is internationally known for his work in opera, having designed many productions in the United States, Great Britain, and Europe. Yeargan is also a two-time Tony Award winner; his Broadway credits include The Light in the Piazza, South Pacific, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
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