McLane has designed more than 350 productions at theatres throughout the United States and around the world, for Broadway, Off-Broadway and major live television. He won a Tony Award for ‘33 Variations’ and Emmy Awards for the 2014 Oscars + ‘Hairspray Live!’ and an Art Directors Guild Award for his 2014 design of the Oscars. Broadway credits include: Moulin Rouge!, A Soldier's Play, Gigi, , 33 Variations, Grease, The Pajama Game ; The Threepenny Opera, Little Women, I Am My Own Wife ; Intimate Apparel, Barefoot in the Park, Lestat, The Women, Present Laughter, London Assurance, Holiday, Honour, Summer and Smoke, and Three Sisters. Off-Broadway credits include: Buried Child, Into the Woods, Posterity, The Scene, The Voysey Inheritance, Two Trains Running, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Macbeth , Hurlyburly, Abigail's Party, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Credeaux Canvas and Rafta, Rafta.... McLane was the scenic designer for all of the productions of the entire Sondheim Celebration at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. in 2002. His designs in opera and theatre have also appeared in London, Paris, Dublin, Glasgow, Moscow, Kraków, Sydney, Caracas and Warsaw. For television, McLane designed the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Academy Awards, as well as the live television productions of The Sound of Music Live!, Peter Pan Live! and The Wiz Live!. He has collaborated with renowned directors such as Alex Timbers, Kenny Leon, Rob Ashford, Marc Bruni, Scott Elliott, Moisés Kaufman, Kathleen Marshall, Daniel Sullivan, Mark Brokaw, James Lapine and Michael Mayer. McLane is on the board of directors for The New Group and Fiasco Theater Company, and is also a mentor with the Theatre Development Fund's Open Doors Program. With his first wife, McLane has three children; he is currently married to Sony Pictures Entertainment executive Lia Vollack.
Awards and nominations
Art Directors Guild: 90th ACADEMY AWARDS • 2019 Emmy Award Nomination: 90th ACADEMY AWARDS • 2018 Emmy Award: HAIRSPRAY LIVE! • 2017 Art Directors Guild Nomination: 88th ACADEMY AWARDS • 2017 Art Directors Guild Nomination: HAIRSPRAY LIVE! • 2017 Emmy Award Nomination: 88th ACADEMY AWARDS • 2016 Emmy Award Nomination: The WIZ LIVE! • 2016 Drama Desk Nomination: FULLY COMMITTED • 2016 Art Directors Guild Award: Excellence in Production Design • 2015 Art Directors Guild Award: 87th ACADEMY AWARDS • 2014 Emmy Award: 86th ACADEMY AWARDS • 2014 Drama Desk Nomination: FOLLIES • 2012 Drama Desk Award: ANYTHING GOES • 2011 Tony Award Nomination: ANYTHING GOES • 2011 Tony Award Nomination: Best Scenic Design of a Musical: RAGTIME • 2010 Lucille Lortel Award Nomination: Outstanding Scenic Design: A LIE OF THE MIND • 2010 Garland Award: Excellence in Southland Theater - Backstage: BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO • 2010 Tony Award Nomination: Best Scenic Design of a Play: 33 VARIATIONS • 2009 Henry Hewes Design Award: Best Scenic Design: 33 VARIATIONS • 2009 Henry Hewes Design Award Nomination: Best Scenic Design: RUINED • 2009 Vivian Robinson Audelco - 'The Viv' : Set Design Award: RUINED • 2009 Drama Desk Nomination: 33 VARIATIONS • 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination: 33 VARIATIONS • 2009 Henry Hewes Design Award Nomination: Best Scenic Design: RAFTA, RAFTA • 2008 Lucille Lortel Award Nomination: Outstanding Scenic Design: 10 MILLION MILES • 2008 San Diego Critics Circle Noel Award: Outstanding Scenic Design: 33 VARIATIONS • 2008 Drama Desk Nomination: 10 MILLION MILES • 2008 Dora Award, Toronto: ELEKTRA • 2007 Lucille Lortel Award: THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE • 2007 Outer Critics Circle Award Nomination: THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE • 2007 Tony Award Nomination: Best Scenic Design of a Musical: THE PAJAMA GAME • 2006 Lucille Lortel Award Nomination: ABIGAIL'S PARTY • 2006 Drama Desk Nomination: ABIGAIL'S PARTY • 2006 Lucille Lortel Award: INTIMATE APPAREL • 2005 Drama-Logue Award: INTIMATE APPAREL • 2005 Audelco Award: INTIMATE APPAREL • 2004 OBIE Award: Sustained Achievement 2004 Lucille Lortel Award: I AM MY OWN WIFE • 2004 Drama Desk Nomination: I AM MY OWN WIFE • 2004 Michael Merrit Award for Collaboration: : CHICAGO • 2003 Drama Desk Nomination: THE WOMEN • 2002 Drama Desk Nomination: EAST IS EAST • 2000 Drama Desk Nomination: MISALLIANCE • 1998 Drama-Logue Award: HARMONY • 1997 OBIE Award: Sustained Achievement 1997 Drama Desk Nomination: PRESENT LAUGHTER • 1997 Drama Desk Nomination: THE MONOGAMIST • 1996
