â This book is designed to help students and anyone else interested in improving their skill at making finished renderings of scene designs for theater. . . . [I] wish this book had existed when I was a student. . . . I know of no other theater design book that is comparable or is as complete in its handling of the subject.â â Steve ArnoldWenhai Ma is the head of the Theatre Production Design Program at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore. Formerly, he taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he served as Senior Designer & Master Teacher and Chair of the Scene Design Program. He has designed over one hundred productions in the USA and Asia and has also illustrated numerous picture books.