Michael Yeargan is a professor of stage design at the Yale School of Drama and the resident designer for the Yale Repertory Theatre, where he has designed more than fifty productions. His North American opera credits include designs for the Metropolitan Opera (Susannah, Harbison's The Great Gatsby); LA Opera (Nabucco, The Merry Widow, Stiffelio, Hansel and Gretel); San Francisco Opera (Der Ring des Nibelungen, A Streetcar Named Desire, Dead Man Walking)Lyric Opera of Chicago (Antony and Cleopatra, Bolcom's A View from the Bridge); the Dallas Opera (Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto); Houston Grand Opera (Floyd's Cold Sassy Tree); and Glimmerglass Opera (Central Park), among others. Internationally, he has designed productions for Welsh National Opera; Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Scottish Opera; Théâtre Musical de Paris; Frankfurt Opera; and Opera Australia. The two-time Tony Award winner (South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza) has also designed New York productions of Terrence McNally's Bad Habits, The Ritz, and The Gershwins' Fascinatin' Rhythm. He has worked extensively with the New York Shakespeare Festival, Washington D.C.'s Shakespeare Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, and at London's West End.