has designed nationally and internationally for 50 years, for opera, dance, Broadway and regional theater, and is the recipient of the National Medal of Arts, the highest national award given in the arts. Other awards include the Mayor’s Award for Arts and Culture; Tony Award, Outer Critic’s Circle and Drama Desk Awards, many others from the theater and Chinese communities; and three honorary degrees. His work has been shown in a retrospective at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. He serves as a member of the Board of the New Forty Second Street, Inc., as well as that of the Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, the Non-Traditional Casting Project and many others. He is co-chair of the design department of the Yale School of Drama, and holds the Donald Oenslager Chair in Design.