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-)