Specialization and individualized professions in the field of technical theater are relatively new on the scene compared to the time period in which the art of theater grew. Helping in the development of concentrated professions like set design have been a plethora of talented, skilled, intelligent, and highly motivated individuals. Among these influential sources of creativity were John Lee Beatty, Eugene Lee, Boris Aronson, Ming Cho Lee, Jo Mielziner, Tony Walton, Robin Wager, John Napier, Santo Loquasto, Heidi Landesman and Julie Taymor along with many others. John Lee Beatty says he has been designing sets since the age of seven, when his parents took him to see Peter Pan. He grew up in Southern California in a small town where his father was dean of students at Pomona College and his mother had also worked as a teacher. He planned for the Chicago revival; Pulitzer Prize winners Doubt, Proof and Rabbit Hole; The color purple; The heiress; The Rosensweig Sisters; and the revival of Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance. Beatty was nominated for 12 Tony Awards and won for Talley's Folly in 1980. Eugene Lee might be seen by many young novice set designers as old-fashioned. Although his sets are highly technologically demanding, he begins the design process with a simple piece of drawing paper. He doesn't fake anything as a designer, if he wants something to look like a certain texture or material more often than not he will use the actual material instead of taking the route preferred by most modern designers and simply painting the texture onto the wood. Along with Lee's three Tony Awards, he has been the production designer on the popular Saturday Night Live since its first episode in 1975... middle of paper... after studying in Ohio, he began apprenticing with experimental theater companies in New York and taking anthropology courses at Columbia University. In addition to set design, costume design, and prop and puppet design, Taymor has successfully directed numerous shows. In 1997 her direction of the Broadway hit The Lion King resulted in the first directing Tony awarded to a woman in the fifty years of the Tony Awards' existence. Each of these projects has had a great impact on the field of scenography. and on the future of the technical design of the theatre. Through their artistic talent, hard work, creativity, and drive to make their dreams come true, these set designers have paved the way for future designers and innovation in future productions. The world of theater would not be the same without their substantial impact and the footprints of genius they leave behind.