title: Derek McLane
text: # Derek McLane
  
  Derek McLane (born June 14, 1958, in London, England) is an American set designer for theatre, opera, and television. He graduated with a BA from Harvard College and an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
  
  ## Career
  
  McLane has designed more than 350 productions at theatres throughout the United States and around the world, for Broadway, Off-Broadway and major live television. He won a Tony Award for ‘33 Variations’ and Emmy Awards for the 2014 Oscars + ‘Hairspray Live!’ and an Art Directors Guild Award for his 2014 design of the Oscars.
  
  Broadway credits include: Moulin Rouge! (2020), A Soldier's Play (2020), Gigi (2015), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (2014), 33 Variations (Tony Award, Best Scenic Design 2009), Grease, The Pajama Game (2006 Tony Nomination); The Threepenny Opera, Little Women, I Am My Own Wife (Tony Award, Best Play); Intimate Apparel (2005 Lortel Award), Barefoot in the Park, Lestat, The Women, Present Laughter, London Assurance, Holiday, Honour, Summer and Smoke, and Three Sisters.
  
  Off-Broadway credits include: Buried Child (2016), Into the Woods (2015), Posterity (2015), The Scene, The Voysey Inheritance (2007 Lortel Award), Two Trains Running, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Macbeth (Shakespeare in the Park), Hurlyburly, Abigail's Party, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Credeaux Canvas and Rafta, Rafta....
  
  McLane was the scenic designer for all of the productions of the entire Sondheim Celebration at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. in 2002.
  
  His designs in opera and theatre have also appeared in London, Paris, Dublin, Glasgow, Moscow, Kraków, Sydney, Caracas and Warsaw. For television, McLane designed the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Academy Awards, as well as the live television productions of The Sound of Music Live!, Peter Pan Live! and The Wiz Live!.
  
  He has collaborated with renowned directors such as Alex Timbers, Kenny Leon, Rob Ashford, Marc Bruni, Scott Elliott, Moisés Kaufman, Kathleen Marshall, Daniel Sullivan, Mark Brokaw, James Lapine and Michael Mayer.
  
  McLane is on the board of directors for The New Group and Fiasco Theater Company, and is also a mentor with the Theatre Development Fund's Open Doors Program.
  
  With his first wife, McLane has three children; he is currently married to Sony Pictures Entertainment executive Lia Vollack.
  
  ## Awards and nominations
  
  Tony Award Nomination: Best Scenic Design of a Musical: MJ • 2022
  
  Tony Award: Best Scenic Design of a Musical: MOULIN ROUGE! • 2021
  
  Drama Desk Award: MOULIN ROUGE! • 2020
  
  Art Directors Guild: 90th ACADEMY AWARDS • 2019
  
  Emmy Award Nomination: 90th ACADEMY AWARDS • 2018
  
  Emmy Award: HAIRSPRAY LIVE! • 2017
  
  Art Directors Guild Nomination: 88th ACADEMY AWARDS • 2017
  
  Art Directors Guild Nomination: HAIRSPRAY LIVE! • 2017
  
  Emmy Award Nomination: 88th ACADEMY AWARDS • 2016
  
  Emmy Award Nomination: The WIZ LIVE! • 2016
  
  Drama Desk Nomination: FULLY COMMITTED • 2016
  
  Art Directors Guild Award: Excellence in Production Design • 2015
  
  Art Directors Guild Award: 87th ACADEMY AWARDS • 2014
  
  Emmy Award: 86th ACADEMY AWARDS • 2014
  
  Drama Desk Nomination: FOLLIES • 2012
  
  Drama Desk Award: ANYTHING GOES • 2011
  
  Tony Award Nomination: ANYTHING GOES • 2011
  
  Tony Award Nomination: Best Scenic Design of a Musical: RAGTIME • 2010
  
  Lucille Lortel Award Nomination: Outstanding Scenic Design: A LIE OF THE MIND • 2010
  
  Garland Award: Excellence in Southland Theater - Backstage: BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO • 2010
  
  Tony Award Nomination: Best Scenic Design of a Play: 33 VARIATIONS • 2009
  
  Henry Hewes Design Award: Best Scenic Design: 33 VARIATIONS • 2009
  
  Henry Hewes Design Award Nomination: Best Scenic Design: RUINED • 2009
  
  Vivian Robinson Audelco - 'The Viv' : Set Design Award: RUINED • 2009
  
  Drama Desk Nomination: 33 VARIATIONS • 2009
  
  Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination: 33 VARIATIONS • 2009
  
  Henry Hewes Design Award Nomination: Best Scenic Design: RAFTA, RAFTA • 2008
  
  Lucille Lortel Award Nomination: Outstanding Scenic Design: 10 MILLION MILES • 2008
  
  San Diego Critics Circle Noel Award: Outstanding Scenic Design: 33 VARIATIONS • 2008
  
  Drama Desk Nomination: 10 MILLION MILES • 2008
  
  Dora Award, Toronto: ELEKTRA • 2007
  
  Lucille Lortel Award: THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE • 2007
  
  Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination: THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE • 2007
  
  Tony Award Nomination: Best Scenic Design of a Musical: THE PAJAMA GAME • 2006
  
  Lucille Lortel Award Nomination: ABIGAIL'S PARTY • 2006
  
  Drama Desk Nomination: ABIGAIL'S PARTY • 2006
  
  Lucille Lortel Award: INTIMATE APPAREL • 2005
  
  Drama-Logue Award: INTIMATE APPAREL • 2005
  
  Audelco Award: INTIMATE APPAREL • 2004
  
  OBIE Award: Sustained Achievement 2004
  
  Lucille Lortel Award: I AM MY OWN WIFE • 2004
  
  Drama Desk Nomination: I AM MY OWN WIFE • 2004
  
  Michael Merrit Award for Collaboration: : CHICAGO • 2003
  
  Drama Desk Nomination: THE WOMEN • 2002
  
  Drama Desk Nomination: EAST IS EAST • 2000
  
  Drama Desk Nomination: MISALLIANCE • 1998
  
  Drama-Logue Award: HARMONY • 1997
  
  OBIE Award: Sustained Achievement 1997
  
  Drama Desk Nomination: PRESENT LAUGHTER • 1997
  
  Drama Desk Nomination: THE MONOGAMIST • 1996
  
  