The Designs of Ming Cho Lee by Delbert Unruh presents the designs of this widely regarded and well known theatrical designer, mentor, and teacher. Foreword by Jon Jory. The book contains lovely illustrations of set models, renderings, production photographs, and discusses the major designs of this widely regarded and well known theatrical designer, mentor, and teacher. The story of Mr. Lee's career is accompanied by a list of his production credits, awards and nominations, and memberships.

The Designs of Ming Cho Lee

Delbert Unruh

The United States Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc.

Tharon Musser was America's most distinguished lighting designer during the 1970s and 1980s. She received three Tony awards for her brilliant work which encompassed 117 Broadway productions including such greats as "Follies," "Dreamgirls," "A Little Night Music," and "A Chorus Line." THE DESIGNS OF THARON MUSSER is profusely illustrated with sixty-nine photographs of her work, as well as over a dozen example of her hand-drawn light plots, magic sheets, and other paperwork. THE DESIGNS OF THARON MUSSER, published in March 2007, is written by Delbert Unruh, Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of Kansas, along with two of Musser's longtime assistants, Marilyn Rennagel and Jeff Davis. The book also features a complete design chronology (237 productions!), a listing of Musser's awards and honors, and, uniquely, a listing of all twenty-five of her design assistants and the shows they worked on. The foreword is by Richard Pilbrow who worked with Musser first as a projection designer on "Golden Boy" in 1964, and later as a co-producer on shows like "A Little Night Music."

The Designs of Tharon Musser

Profile of the life and work of one of Broadway's most prolific and most honored sound designers.

The Designs of Abe Jacob

Richard K. Thomas

Profile of the life and work of renowned Broadway lighting designer Jules Fisher whose award-winning accomplishments span a career of almost fifty years. Mr. Fisher has been celebrated by his colleagues for his innovative and technologically inventive solutions some of which involved creating the technologies he needed to achieve the artistic effects he wanted. He has lit Broadway, off-Broadway, film, television and concert events, and has been honored with eight Tony Awards (and 12 more nominations), seven Drama Desk Awards, and an Emmy Award nomination for lighting the celebration of President Clinton s inauguration in 1993. He was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2006, received the USITT Award in 1995, the Illuminating Engineering Society's Lighting Design Award in 1978 for "Dancin'," and the Henry Hewes Design Award in 1996 for "Bring in 'Da Noise Bring in 'Da Funk." A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Mr. Fisher is the founder of three related design practices, Fisher Marantz Stone Partners, who specialize in architectural lighting, Fisher Dachs Associates, theatre planning and design, and Third Eye Ltd., entertainment lighting with Peggy Eisenhauer, all based in New York, NY. The three firms work internationally. Mr. Fisher is married to director and choreographer Graciela Daniele.

The Designs of Jules Fisher

Humor & Entertainment

Biographical essays on twenty-five American theatrical designers--scenery, costumes, lighting, sound, and makeup--including extensive illustrations of their work. This book is part of a series of monographs published by United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) to record the great heritage of designers in the United States. Previous books in the series have been profiles of active designers at the pinnacles of their careers: costume designer Willa Kim, set designer Ming Cho Lee, lighting designer Tharon Musser, sound designer Abe Jacob, and lighting designer Jules Fisher. "Late &amp; Great: American Designers, 1960-2010" looks back at some of the best designers no longer with us, but who were active during USITT's first fifty years, 1960 to 2010. These include Ralph Alswang, Martin Aronstein, Lucinda Ballard, Howard Bay, Harold Burris-Meyer, Peggy Clark, Alvin Colt, Judy Dearing, Raoul Pene du Bois, Ben Edwards, Abe Feder, Arden Fingerhut, John Gleason, Gilbert Hemsley, Bernard Johnson, Richard Nelson, Ben Nye, Chris Parry, Irene Sharaff, Thomas Skelton, Oliver Smith, Rouben Ter-Arutunian, Miles White, Freddy Wittop, and Patricia Zipprodt. The introduction by Arnold Aronson, chair of the theatre program at Columbia University and author of the indispensable "American Set Design," traces the evolution of American scenography and contrasts it with European styles and trends. Twenty-seven authors contributed the twenty-five biographical essays: Ann M. Archbold (Aronstein), Jade Bettin (Colt and Dearing), Jody Blake (Ter-Arutunian), Whitney Blausen (Zipprodt), John L. Bracewell (Burris-Meyer), Gail Brassard (Sharaff), Ben Coolik (Clark), by Annie O. Cleveland and M. Barrett Cleveland (Feder), Jeff Davis (Nelson), Patricia Dennis (Nye), Richard E. Dunham (Skelton), Linda Essig (Fingerhut and Gleason), Laura Hanson and Robert Lewis Smith (Smith), , Holly Monsos (White), Mike Monsos (Alswang), Bobbi Owen (du Bois), Sylvia Hillyard Pannell (Wittop), Andrew Rich and Erik Viker (Edwards), Peggy Rosefeldt (Ballard), Mary Tarantino (Hemsley), Kristina Tollefson (Johnson), Arnold Wengrow (Bay), and Craig Wolf (Parry).

Late and Great: American Designers 1960-2010

Arts & Photography

Decorative Arts & Design