Michael Yeargan, born in Dallas, Texas is an Associate Professor in Stage Design at the Yale School of Drama. His design work in opera includes projects for The Royal Opera House in London (Attila, Simon Boccanegra, Stiffelio, I Puritani, Aida), the Metropolitan Opera (Ariadne auf Naxos, Otello, Così fan tutte), Glimmerglass Opera (Central Park, La Finta Giardiniera, Madama Butterfly, Tosca), Gran Teatre del Liceu (I Puritani), Lyric Opera of Chicago (The Great Gatsby, Attila, Susannah, Antony and Cleopatra, Nabucco), San Francisco Opera (The Merry Widow, La bohème, Carmen, Madama Butterfly, Rigoletto, the world premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire, Luisa Miller and Dead Man Walking), Houston Grand Opera (Cold Sassy Tree, Carousel, Susannah, Rigoletto, Madama Butterfly), Washington Opera (Vanessa, La Finta Giardiniera), Virginia Opera (Tosca), Opera Montreal (Peter Grimes) and Dallas Opera (Hansel und Gretel, Vanessa, Rigoletto, Aida).  The Simon Boccanegra, Stiffelio and Aida from Covent Garden are available on video; Così fan tutte and Otello were televised by the Met as was A Streetcar Named Desire from San Francisco.   He has worked extensively in America’s regional theaters.  Work on Broadway includes Terrence McNally’s Bad Habits and The Ritz, Hay Fever with Rosemary Harris, and Athol Fugard’s A Lesson From Aloes.  Off-Broadway, he designed last season’s Dinah Was. He designed Martha Clarke’s Uncertain Hour for the Lincoln Center Serious Fun Festival.  In London’s West End, Napoleon, Elijah Moshinsky’s productions of Becket with Derek Jacobi and Robert Lindsay and Cyrano de Bergerac with Robert Lindsay.