A Master Class with Ming Cho Lee, The Kennedy Center July 9-17
Kerro Knox
At the Kennedy Center, July 9-17, 2010.
Scenic designers and directors will work at the Kennedy Center in an
intense nine-day workshop exploring the collaborative relationship
between scenic designers and directors.
Students and faculty are welcome and encouraged to apply.
Class times:
Noon-7pm daily. Mornings will be devoted to library/research time.
Costs:
$400 Tuition.
Travel, housing and meals are the responsibility of the participant.
Space in the George Washington University Residence Halls, in the
Kennedy Center neighborhood, has been reserved for the participants at
a range of $32-$70. For those whose budgets will allow, there are a
number of hotels in the Kennedy Center neighborhood.
TO APPLY
Scenic Designers
-A letter detailing your motivation for participating in the master
class
-A resume detailing your design and related experience
-at least 6 images or digital photos from your portfolio offering a
strong representative view of your body of work
Or
-Provide a link to an online portfolio
Directors
-A letter detailing your motivation for participating in the master
class
-A resume detailing your directing and related experience
-A one-page discussion of the play that’s at the top of your directing
wish list. Why? How would you approach it?
Send to: ghe...@kennedy-center.org by April 1, invited participants
will be notified by April 23.
Ming Cho Lee is one of the foremost set designers in America today.
His extensive credits include work in opera, dance, and theatre. Born
in Shanghai, Mr. Lee attended Occidental College. He has worked with
many leading dance companies, including Martha Graham, American Ballet
Theatre, Joffrey Ballet, Eliot Feld Ballet, Jose Limon, and Pacific
Northwest Ballet. From 1962 through 1973, he was the principal
designer for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, designing
the original productions of Hair and For Colored Girls Who Have
Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf. He has designed sets for
several opera companies, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York
City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and San Francisco Opera. He has
designed for theatre companies including Arena Stage, Mark Taper
Forum, Guthrie Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of
Louisville, Manhattan Theatre Club, and for Broadway.
Internationally, Mr. Lee has designed productions for Covent Garden,
Hamburgische Staatsoper, Teatro Colon, Royal Danish Ballet, Cloud Gate
Dance Theatre (Taipei), the Hong Kong Cultural Center, and Buhnen Graz
(Austria). His numerous Awards and distinctions include a Tony Award,
New York Drama Desk and New York and Los Angeles Outer Circle Critics
Awards add Ovation Award (Los Angeles), three honorary doctorates,
awards for long-term achievement from 6 major theatre and opera
organizations, the Mayor's Award for Arts and Culture from New York
City, and induction to the Theatre Hall of Fame. His work was shown
recently in a retrospective at the New York Public Library for the
Performing Arts and at the National Museum of History in Taipei,
Taiwan. As an architectural consultant, Mr. Lee designed theatres for
Joseph Papp's Public Theatre, Yale University and the State University
of New York at Purchase. He holds the Donald Oenslager chair in
Design and is co-chair of the design department at the Yale School of
Drama.
Recent designs include: Lorenzaccio for the Shakespeare Theatre
Company, Stuff Happens for the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum,
Romeo and Juliet for Pacific Northwest Ballet, Enigma Variations for
the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum, Royal Alexandra Theatre in
Toronto and the Savoy Theatre in London, The Hollow Lands for
Southcoast Rep, Ah, Wilderness! for The Guthrie Theater and the
Guthrie on Tour, A Touch of the Poet, The Faraway Nearby, Uncle Vanya
and the revival of K2 for Arena Stage, The Woman Warrior for the
Center Theatre Group, As You Like It and The Joy Luck Club for the
Long Wharf, Waiting for Godot and A Winter's Tale for the Stratford
Festival, A Comedy of Errors, Heartbreak House and Othello for Actors
Theatre of Louisville, The Cherry Orchard for South Coast Rep.,
Macbeth, Mourning Becomes Electra, King John, Peer Gynt, The Merchant
of Venice and Don Carlos for the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington
D.C., both parts of Angels in America and Guys and Dolls for the
Dallas Theatre Center, The Notebook of Trigorin for Cincinnati
Playhouse in the Park, Long Day’s Journey Into Night for Arizona
Theatre Company, A Christmas Carol for McCarter Theatre, Death of a
Salesman and A Touch of the Poet for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival,
Silver Lining for Pacific Northwest Ballet, the opera Rashomon for
Buhnen Graz, Burning the Juniper Branches and Portrait of the Families
for Cloud Gate Dance Theatre.