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DATE SHOW PRODUCER VENUE DIRECTOR
Nov 2016 Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet… MaxOlev Productions Imperial Theater Rachel Chavkin Sept 2016 24-Decade History of Popular Music Pomegranate Arts St. Ann’s Warehouse Niegel Smith June 2016 War LCT3 Claire Tow Theater Lileana Blain-Cruz May 2016 Signature Plays Signature Theater Griffin Theater Lila Neugebauer May 2016 Wink Birmingham Royal Ballet various Jessica Lang (choreo.) April 2016 Collidescope Ping Chong & Co. UMASS Amherst Ping Chong/Talvin Wilks March 2016 2x4 Tree [lobby installation] PIFA Kimmel Center Feb 2016 Smokefall MCC Lucille Lortel Theatre Anne Kauffman Dec 2015 Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet… American Repertory Theatre Loeb Theater Rachel Chavkin Nov 2015 Beast BalletX Wilma Theater Nicolo Fonte (choreo.) Oct 2015 Appropriate Center Theatre Group Mark Taper Forum Eric Ting Sept 2015 Lost in the Meadow Longwood Gardens/People’s Light Longwood Gardens Pearl Damour Aug 2015 Memory Palace Elastic City Pennsylvania Hotel July 2015 John Signature Theatre Diamond Theater Sam Gold June 2015 The Long Walk Opera Saratoga Spa Little Theater David Schweitzer May 2015 Preludes Lincoln Center Theater LCT3 Rachel Chavkin April 2015 I Understand Everything Better advanced beginner group Abrons Arts Center David Neumann (choreo.) Feb 2015 An Octoroon Theatre for a New Audience Polonsky Stage Sarah Benson Feb 2015 The World of Extreme Happiness MTC / Goodman Theatre MTC Stage 1/ Owen Theatre Eric Ting Dec 2014 The Wanderer Jessica Lang Dance BAM Fisher Jessica Lang Nov 2014 Black Mountain Songs Brooklyn Youth Chorus/BAM BAM Harvey Maureen Towey Oct 2014 The Oldest Boy Lincoln Center Theater Mitzi Newhouse Theater Rebecca Taichman Sept 2014 Marjorie Prime Center Theatre Group Mark Taper Forum Les Waters June 2014 As I Remember It Glass Group Jacob’s Pillow Joseph Grifasi May 2014 Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise Play Company JACK Dan Rothenberg May 2014 playdead HORSE Dance Theater National Theater of Taiwan Chen Wu-Kang April 2014 An Octoroon Soho Rep walkerspace Sarah Benson April 2014 Brother Brother Experiments in Opera Abrons Art Center Mallory Catlett April 2014 The World is Round RipeTime BAM Fisher Rachel Dickstein April 2014 The Box The Foundry Theatre Irondale Theater Seth Bockley March 2014 Republic Hoi Polloi JACK Alec Duffy Jan 2014 Stop Hitting Yourself Rude Mechs / Lincoln Center LCT3 Shawn Sides Jan 2014 Our Town Actors Theatre of Louisville Pamela Brown Theater Les Waters Jan 2014 Cherokee Wilma Theater Wilma Theater Anne Kauffman Dec 2013 Blue Wizard/Black Wizard Dave Malloy/Eliza Bent Incubator Arts Project Dan Safer Nov 2013 Our Planet Japan Society Japan Society Alec Duffy Oct 2013 Warrior Class Alliance Theatre Hertz Stage Eric Ting Oct 2013 Beckett Solos Hoi Polloi JACK Alec Duffy Sept 2013 Red Speedo Studio Theatre Stage 4 Lila Neugebauer July 2013 Beautiful Decay BalletX Wilma Theater Nicolo Fonte (choreo.) June 2013 Blessing the Boats MAPP Productions River to River Festival Rhodessa Jones May 2013 Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet…Howard & Janet Kagan Kazino Rachel Chavkin May 2013 The Golden Dragon The Play Company New Ohio Theater Ed Iskandar April 2013 A Public Reading,,,Walt Disney Soho Rep walkerspace Sarah Benson April 2013 Electric Baby Two River Theatre Company Huber Theater May Adrales March 2013 Good People Cleveland Playhouse co prod. with Syracuse Stage Laura Kepley Feb 2013 The Dance and the Railroad Signature Theatre Griffin Theater May Adrales Jan 2013 Luck of the Irish Lincoln Center Theater LCT3 Rebecca Taichman Nov 2012 We Are Proud to Present… Soho Rep walkerspace Eric Ting Oct 2012 The Whale Playwrights Horizons Playwrights Horizons Davis McCallum Oct 2012 Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet…Ars Nova Ars Nova Rachel Chavkin Sept 2012 A History Bebe Miller Company Wexner Center for the Arts Bebe Miller (choreo.) Sept 2012 Zero Cost House Pig Iron Theatre Company Live Arts Festival Dan Rothenberg July 2012 Baal Hoi Polloi JACK Alec Duffy May 2012 Takarazuka!!! Clubbed Thumb HERE Arts Center Lear deBessonet April 2012 Penelope Playmakers Repertory Theatre Kenan Studio Theatre Lisa Rothe March 2012 Elephant Room Rainpan43 St. Ann’s Warehouse Paul Lazar March 2012 All Hands Hoi Polloi Incubator Arts Project Alec Duffy Feb 2012 The Great Immensity The Civilians/Kansas City Rep Copaken Stage Steve Cosson Jan 2012 Macbeth[1969] Longwharf Theater Mainstage Theater Eric Ting Jan 2012 Body Awareness The Wilma Theater Wilma Theater Anne Kauffman Nov 2011 Hansel und Gretel Virginia Opera Harrison Opera House Kevin Newbury Oct 2011 Petrouchka/Carmen Oregon Ballet Theater Portland Perf. Arts Center N. Fonte, C. Stowell Oct 2011 Yellowman Milwaukee Repertory Theater Stiemke Theater May Adrales Sept 2011 Milk Like Sugar La Jolla Playhouse Potiker Theatre Rebecca Taichman July 2011 Die Liebe der Danae Bard Summerscape Sosnoff Theater Kevin Newbury May 2011 La Ville Radieuse [lobby installation] PIFA, Philadelphia, PA Kimmel Center April 2011 The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World Playwrights Horizons Mainstage Theater John Langs Feb 2011 Born Bad Soho Rep walkerspace Leah Gardiner Jan 2011 Vendetta Chrome Sarah Lawrence College Wright Theatre Lear deBessonet Jan 2011 Futura Portland Center Stage Ellen Bye Theatre Kip Fagan Sept 2010 Macbeth The Wilma Theater Wilma Theater Blanka Zizka Aug 2010 Cankerblossom Pig Iron Theatre Company Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Dan Rothenberg July 2010 Judgment Day Bard Summerscape Fisher Center for the Arts Caitriona McLaughlin June 2010 Zero Hour 13P walkerspace Adam Greenfield March 2010 Enjoy The Play Company 59E59 Dan Rothenberg Feb 2010 Strange Devices… Berkeley Repertory Theater Berkeley Rep Les Waters Feb 2010 Neighbors Public Theater Shiva Theater Niegel Smith Jan 2010 All My Sons Playmakers Repertory Company Paul Green Theater Davis McCallum Dec 2009 Becky Shaw The Wilma Theater Wilma Theater Anne Kauffman Nov 2009 My Fair Lady Princeton University McCarter Theatre Center Suzanne Agins Oct 2009 Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven Epic Theatre Ensemble Peter Norton Theater Will Pomerantz Aug 2009 Welcome to Yuba City Pig Iron Theatre Company Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Quinn Bauriedel April 2009 The Less We Talk Hoi Polloi Ontological-Hysteric Theatre Alec Duffy Feb 2009 Copenhagen Delaware Theater Company Delaware Theater Co. Meredith McDonough Oct 2008 Communist Dracula Pageant American Repertory Theatre Zero Arrow Theater Anne Kauffman June 2008 Palace of the End Epic Theatre Center Playwrights Horizons Daniella Topol May 2008 Eurydice The Wilma Theater Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA Blanka Zizka April 2008 Mandance Project BalletTech Foundation Joyce Theater Eliot Feld (choreographer) Feb 2008 Necessary Monsters Museum of Contemporary Art MCA, Chicago, IL Carla Kihlstedt/Paul Bargetto Feb 2008 The Greeks Juilliard School Drama Division Drama Theater Brian Mertes Jan 2008 In the Red and Brown Water Alliance Theater Hertz Stage Tina Landau Dec 2007 The Conlon Project Juilliard School Dance Division Sharp Theater R.Battle, N.Fonte, A.Houghland
Nov 2007 Queens Boulevard Signature Theatre Company Peter Norton Theater Davis McCallum Oct 2007 dumb dumb bunny The Kitchen The Kitchen Sam Kim (choreographer)
Sept 2007 The Magnificent Cuckold East River Commedia Connelly Theater Paul Bargetto
Aug 2007 The Bald Soprano Shakespeare Theater of NJ Kirby Theater Matthew Arbour
July 2007 Villa America Williamstown Theatre Festival Nikos Stage Crispin Whittell
June 2007 Ah, Wilderness! Chautauqua Theater Company Bratton Theater Lisa Rothe
June 2007 Greedy Clubbed Thumb Ohio Theater Drew Barr
April 2007 The Life of Galileo The Wilma Theater Wilma Theater Blanka Zizka
March 2007 Carmina Burana Pennsylvania Ballet Academy of Music Matthew Neenan (choreog.)
Oct 2006 Post Mortem The Flea Theater The Flea Theater Jim Simpson
July 2006 Lucy and the Conquest Williamstown Theatre Festival Nikos Stage Suzanne Agins
June 2006 Love Unpunished Pig Iron Theatre Company The Cinema, Philadelphia, PA Dan Rothenberg
May 2006 A Number The Wilma Theater Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA Jiri Zizka
April 2006 Cloud 9 The Wilma Theater Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA Blanka Zizka
Jan 2006 Land of Dreams Montclair State University Alexander Kasser Theater Charles Moulton
Nov 2005 Nightclub Cantata Eugene Lang College The New School for Drama Elizabeth Swados
Nov 2005 A Long History of Neglect Princeton University McCarter Theatre Center Davis McCallum
Oct 2005 Top Girls Fordham University Pope Theater Erica Schmidt
Sept 2005 Sir Isaac’s Apples The Juilliard School Dance Div. Sharp Theater Eliot Feld (choreographer)
Sept 2005 Harvest East Coast Artists Swarthmore College Erin Mee
July 2005 Split Wide Open Summer Play Festival Theatre Row—Beckett Theater Lisa Rothe
May 2005 Outrage The Wilma Theater The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia, PA Jiri Zizka
Jan 2005 The Seagull Roundtable Ensemble Blue Heron Arts Center Michael Barakiva
Nov 2004 Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards Princeton University McCarter Theatre Center Erica Schmidt
Oct 2004 Eyes of the Heart Nat. Asian American Theatre Co. Intar 53 Kay Matschullat
June 2004 The Philosopher Fox East River Commedia Malta Festival, Poznan, Poland Paul Bargetto
June 2004 Floyd Collins Berkshire Theatre Festival Unicorn Theater, Stockbridge, MA Jared Coseglia May 2004 The Triangle Factory Fire Project The Actors Company Theatre Theatre Row--Clurman Theatre Scott Alan Evans
Feb 2004 A Perfect Plan Encompass New Opera Theatre Symphony Space Nancy Rhodes
Nov 2003 Brimstone & Treacle Columbia University Theatre of the Riverside Church Erwin Maas
Oct 2003 Abundance The Working Theater Dance Theatre Workshop Marty Pottenger
Sept 2003 The Belle’s Stratagem Prospect Theater Company West End Theater Davis McCallum awards
Oct 2016 Hewes Design Award American Theatre Wing Set Design for John May 2016 OBIE Award Outstanding Production for John March 2016 LA Outer Critics Circle Award Outstanding Scenic Design for Appropriate Sept 2015 MacArthur Fellowship John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Sept 2015 Joan Cullman Award Lincoln Center Theater Preludes and The Oldest Boy May 2015 Drama Desk Award Nomination Set Design for An Octoroon Nov 2014 Suzi Bass Award Nomination Outstanding Scenic Design for Warrior Class Oct 2014 Hewes Design Award Nomination American Theatre Wing Set Design for An Octoroon and Stop Hitting Yourself May 2014 Lucille Lortel Award Set Design for Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 Oct 2013 Hewes Design Award American Theatre Wing Set Design for Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 May 2013 Drama Desk Award Nomination Outstanding Set Design for The Whale May 2012 OBIE Award Village Voice Sustained Excellence in Set Design May 2012 Audelco Award Nomination Outstanding Set Design for Milk Like Sugar April 2011 Bay Area Critics Circle Nomination Outstanding Scenic Design for Strange Devices From the Distant West Oct 2010 Barrymore Award Nomination Outstanding Set Design for Becky Shaw and Welcome to Yuba City 2007-2009 Career Development Program TCG/NEA Stage Design Dec 2008 Hewes Design Award Nomination American Theatre Wing Set Design for Queens Boulevard Oct 2008 Barrymore Award Nomination Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia Outstanding Set Design for Eurydice Oct 2007 Barrymore Award Nomination Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia Outstanding Set Design for Galileo Jan 2007 Live Design Magazine Young Designer to Watch Stage Design Oct 2005 Barrymore Award Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia Outstanding Set Design for Outrage Jan 2003 Ring Award 2003 Semifinalist Graz, Austria Competition for Opera Design and Direction 2002-2003 NYU Graduate Assistantship Department of Undergraduate Drama Full tuition scholarship teaching
Spring 2012 Sets for Lights (Adjunct) New York University Department of Design for Stage and Film Fall 2012 Visiting Artist and Lecturer Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts Atelier 2007-2010 Guest Critic New York University Department of Design for Stage and Film 2007-2010 Guest Critic and Student Mentor Moore College of Art and Design Department of Interior Design Spring 2008 Visiting Artist and Lecturer Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts Atelier 2005-2008 Set Studio I (co-teacher) New York University Department of Design for Stage and Film lectures
Spring 2016 Spencer Lecture in Drama Harvard University Department of English Spring 2015 Fictional Architecture University of Scranton Departments of Theatre & Architecture education
May 2003 New York University Tisch School of the Arts Master of Fine Arts Set Design May 1998 Studio Art Centers International Florence, Italy Post-Baccalaureate Painting and Installation May 1997 Yale University New Haven, CT Bachelor of Arts Architecture