Theater credits include designs for regional theaters in America, London’s West End and numerous Broadway and off-Broadway productions, including the hit musical revival of South Pacific (for which he won Tony and Drama Desk Awards). Yeargan’s extensive opera credits include the world premieres of A Streetcar Named Desire and Dead Man Walking for San Francisco Opera, The Great Gatsby for Metropolitan Opera, Cold Sassy Tree for Houston Grand Opera and Central Park for Glimmerglass Opera and New York City Opera. He is a professor of Stage Design at the Yale School of Drama.