Fifty Key Theatre Designers looks at the history of theatrical scenography by examining the work and contributions of fifty ground-breaking set, costume, lighting, and projection designers since the Renaissance.

Arnold Aronson is Professor Emeritus of Theatre at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of several books on design including Ming Cho Lee: A Life in Design and The History and Theory of Environmental Scenography. He is the editor of The Routledge Companion to Scenography and was a founding co-editor of the journal Theatre and Performance Design. He has a long history with the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space and served as General Commissioner in 2007.

1. Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554[?]) 2. Inigo Jones (1573-1652) 3. Giacomo Torelli (1608-1678) 4. Ferdinando Bibiena (1657-1743) 5. Philippe-Jacques De Loutherbourg (1740-1812) 6. Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri (1782-1868) 7. Richard Wagner (1813-1883) 8. André Antoine (1858-1943) 9. Viktor Simov (1858-1935) 10. Adolphe Appia (1862-1928) 11. Léon Bakst (1866-1924) and Alexandre Benois (1870-1960) 12. Edward Gordon Craig (1872-1966) 13. Joseph Urban (1872-1933) 14. Alexandra Exter (1882-1949) 15. Emil Pirchan (1884-1957) 16. Vlastislav Hofman (1884-1964) 17. Robert Edmond Jones (1887-1954) 18. Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943) 19. Liubov Popova (1889-1924) 20. Traugott Müller (1895-1944) 21. Caspar Neher (1897-1962) 22. Boris Aronson (1898-1980) 23. Nikolai Okhlopkov (1900-1967) 24. Jo Mielziner (1901-1976) 25. Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) 26. Jean Rosenthal (1912-1969) 27. Tanya Moiseiwitsch (1914-2003) 28. Tadeusz Kantor (1915-1990) 29. Jocelyn Herbert (1917-2003) 30 Wieland Wagner (1917-1966) 31. Josef Svoboda (1920-2002) 32. Ralph Koltai (1924-2018) 33. John Bury (1925-2000) 34. Ming Cho Lee (1930-2020) 35. Sally Jacobs (1932-2020) 36. David Borovsky (1934-2006) 37. Jerzy Gurawski (1935-2022) 38. Jennifer Tipton (1937-) 39. Robert Wilson (1941-) 40. Hélio Eichbauer (1941-2018) 41. Richard Peduzzi (1943-) 42. William Dudley (1947-) 43. Jim Clayburgh (1949-) 44. Wendall K. Harrington (1950-) 45. Anna Viebrock (1951-) 46. Liu Xinglin (1953-) 47. George Tsypin (1954-) 48. William Kentridge (1955-) 49. Bert Neumann (1960-2015) 50. Franc Aleu (1966-)