Theoni V. Aldredge
(born August 22, 1922 – died January 21, 2011)
Costume Design – 1970 Honoree for Peer Gynt, 1973 Honoree for Much Ado About Nothing, 1978 Honoree for On the 20th Century, 1984 Honoree for La Cage aux Folles

Ms. Aldredge’s, first Broadway costume design debut was in 1959, for Geraldine Page in Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth. For more than two decades, she worked on several musicals with Michael Bennett, and was producer Joseph Papp’s chief costume designer.

Among her select Broadway credits: Sweet Bird of Youth, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Anyone Can Whistle, A Chorus Line, The Threepenny Opera, Annie (Tony Award), Barnum (Tony Award), 42nd Street, Dreamgirls, La Cage aux Folles (Tony Award) and Gypsy. Film credits: The Mirror Has Two Faces, The First Wives Club, Addams Family Values, Moonstruck, Network, The Rose and The Great Gatsby (Academy Award). Honors include the NYC Liberty Medal, Costume Guild Career Achievement Award, Theatre Hall of Fame (1986). Ms. Aldredge was the principal designer for NYSF, for more than 20 years.

​​​​​​​See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoni_V._Aldredge

Bio as of June 2019

John Arnone
Scenic Design – 1992 Honoree for Pericles

M. Arnone was born in Dallas, Texas, and began his theatrical career as an actor later switching to design in 1976. His designs for Broadway include Turgenyev's Fortune's Fool, The Full Monty, Edward Albee's The Goat, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying directed by Des McAnuff, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Sacrilege with Ellen Burstyn, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Grease. Sex and Longing directed by Garland Wright, The Deep Blue Sea with Blythe Danner, Patio/Porch, Lone Star/Pvt. Wars, Marlene, Minnelli on Minnelli, Gore Vidal's The Best Man and Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mt. Morgan.
Mr. Arnone has received two Obies for outstanding excellence and sustained achievement in set designs and the Los Angeles Theater Critics, Dora Mavor Moore (aka Dora Award), Outer Critics Circle, American Theater Wing, Drama Desk and Tony Awards for The Who's Tommy, which was also was nominated for an Olivier award. Arnone's work has been seen at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Guthrie, ACT, the Globe and La Jolla Playhouse as well as in productions in London, Vienna, Frankfurt, Berlin and Prague. He has also designed productions of Albee's The Play About the Baby and Tiny Alice.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arnone

Bio as of June 2019

Christopher H Barreca
Scenic Design – 1996 Honoree for Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Mr. Barreca has designed extensively on and Off-Broadway as welll as regional theater, opera, dance and international productions. His Broadway credits include: Rocky, The Violet Hour, Marie Christine and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicle of a Death Foretold – both for Lincoln Center Theater; rThe Violet Hou; Our Country's Good (Prague Quadrennial Selection) and Search and Destroy (Drama-League Award).
His Off-Broadway credits include: He Brought Her Heart Back In A Box, Saint Joan (at the Public Thearter David Byrne), Master Herold  And The Boys, Richard Greenberg's Everett Beekin, Three Days of Rain (Drama Desk Nomination) and the musical Bernarda Alba; Bernard-Marie Koltes's Roberto Zucco; Skarmeta's Burning Patience and Eric Overmeyer’s In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe.
Mr. Barreca has designed at theaters throughout the US including The Gutherie, Hartford Stage, ACT in San Francisco, Baltimore Center Stage, The Ford Theater in Washington, D.C., The Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Repertory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, The Dallas Theater Center, The Yale Repertory Theater, The Roundabout and Lincoln Center in NYC.

Visit his website at: http://chrisbarreca.com/chrisbarreca.com/Overview.html

Bio as of June 2019

John Lee Beatty
Scenic Design – 1976 Honoree for Knock Knock, 1978 Honoree for A Life in the Theatre, 1981 Honoree for Fifth of July,
1988 Honoree for Burn This, 1995 Honoree for The Heiress, 2003 Honoree for Book of Days, 2003 Honoree for Dinner at Eight, 2003 Honoree for My Old Lady,
2003 Honoree for Tartuffe, 2011 Honoree for The Whipping Man

As a sceneographer, Mr. Beatty has designed sets for more than seventy Broadway productions including: The Apple Tree, Losing Louie, Heartbreak House, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Rabbit Hole, The Color Purple, Crimes of the Heart, The Odd Couple, Doubt, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Twentieth Century, Wonderful Town, Dinner at Eight, Morning's at Seven, Proof, Footloose, Ivanov, The Little Foxes, Once Upon a Mattress, Chicago, A Delicate Balance, The Heiress, Redwood Curtain, A Small Family Business, The Most Happy Fella, Ain't Misbehavin', The Octette Bridge Club, Duet for One, Fifth of July, Talley's Folly, The Innocents, and Knock Knock.
​​​​​​​Of his awards and honors Mr, Beatty won a Tony, for Best Scenic Design of a Play for The Nance (2013). He has also received eleven Tony Award nominations, including for Other Desert Cities (2012), The Royal Family (2010) and The Color Purple (2006). Beatty is additionally a four time winner of  the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design: Twentieth Century (2004), Dinner at Eight (2003), Fifth of July (1981) and Talley's Folly (1979). He has received ten other Drama Desk nominations

David Bengali
Media Design – 2022 Honoree for Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

David Bengali is a Projection Designer based in New York City.  Selected recent designs include: Broadway: 1776 (Roundabout/A.R.T.);  Off-Broadway and regional: Here There Are Blueberries (Tectonic Theater Project/La Jolla Playhouse); The Visitor (The Public Theater - Lortel Nom.);  Bhangin' It (La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Co.); Bollywood Kitchen (Geffen Playhouse); Twilight: LA 1992 (Signature Theatre - Drama Desk Nom., A.R.T.); Einstein's Dreams (Prospect/59E59 - Drama Desk Nom.); We Live In Cairo (A.R.T); Girls (Yale Rep); Van Gogh’s Ear (Ensemble for the Romantic Century - Drama Desk Nom.); The Great Leap (Atlantic Theater Co.); Frankenstein (Dallas Theater Center); The Temple Bombing (Alliance Theatre); Uncommon Sense (Tectonic Theater Project); Anna Akhmatova (Brooklyn Academy of Music). Touring: Rockin' Road To Dublin (National Tour); Streaming: Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical (Seaview); Circle Jerk (Fake Friends); MFA: NYU. Member: USA-829.

He was a 2017-2019 Princeton Arts Fellow and teaches at Princeton and NYU.

Jeanne Button
(born May 08, 1930  – died May 08, 2017)
​​​​​​​Costume Design – 1967 Honoree for Macbird

Ms. Button was one of America's earliest female professional costume designers, having costumed hundreds of shows, including fifteen on Broadway (of note: Equus, Wings). Her costume designs spanned opera, film, television and dance productions. Ms. Button taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the Yale University Drama School and co-authored the definitive teachers' reference, A History of Costume in Slides, Notes and Commentaries with Stephen Sbarge, 1978.

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David Chapman
Scenic design – 1982 Honoree for The First

Mr. Chapman is a director, writer, solo performer and teaching artist. A native to Chicago, Mr. Chapman has done theatre nationally and internationaly.  He is currently based in New York.

Visit his website at:  http://davidfchapman.weebly.com

Bio as of June, 2010

Michael Curry
Noteworthy/Unusual Effects – 1998 Honoree for The Lion King

Over the past thirty years, Oregon-based, Michael Curry has further gained international recognition as a major production designer of spectacular scenery, large-scale puppetry, costuming, and ambient theatrical design. He has collaborated Disney, Cirque du Soleil, the Olympics, and the Metropolitan Opera. His Broadway credits include: Frozen, Finding Nemo, and The Lion King.

Visit his website at: http://michaelcurrydesign.com

Bio as of June 2019

Lawrence Eichler
Lighting Design – 1985 Honoree for The Mystery of Irma Vep

The Mystery of Irma Vep, Ridiculous Theatrical Company (1984-1986), The Enchanged Pig (1979), Women Behind Bars (1975) are among Mr. Eichler's credits.  

Bio as of June, 2019

Peggy Eisenhauer
Lighting Design – 1998 Honoree for Ragtime, Honoree for Street Corner Symphony

In 1998, Ms. Eisenhauer received dual Tony nominations for Ragtime and Cabaret, and in 2000 she received a second dual Tony nomination for The Wild Party and Marie Christine, followed by a 2001 nomination for Jane Eyre. Ms. Eisenhauer is partner to world-renowned lighting designer, Jules Fisher. They have been in collaboration for over 21 years. In 2004, they received the Tony Award for Assassins, and in 1996 for Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk. They have worked with such esteemed directors as George C. Wolfe, Rob Marshall, Sam Mendes, Graciela Daniele, Jack O'Brien, Tommy Tune, Joe Mantello, and Mike Nichols. Their theatrical lighting designs on the film Chicago, in collaboration with cinematographer Dion Beebe, were honored with a 2003 Academy Award nomination for Cinematography. Their theatrical lighting is featured in the films Marci 'X' and School of Rock, The Producers, and Dreamgirls. Most recent credits include: Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus (2019), The Iceman Cometh (2018), Once on This Island (2017), Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016).

See also: https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/peggy-eisenhauer-25639 
See also: https://www.parityproductions.org/peggy-eisenhauer.html​​​​​​​

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Beverly Emmons
Lighting Design – 1999 Honoree for The Elephant Man, 1982 Honoree for Passion, 1995 Honoree for The Heiress, 1997 Honoree for Jekyll & Hyde, 1997 Honoree for When the World Was Green
Special Citation – 1982 Honoree for The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

Ms. Emmons has designed for Broadway, Off-Broadway, dance, opera and regional theater, both in the US and abroad. Her Broadway credits include: Amadeus (Tony Award), Annie Get Your Gun, Jekyll & Hyde, The Heiress, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Stephen Sondheim's Passion, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, High Rollers, Stepping Out, The Elephant Man, A Day In Hollywood A Night in the Ukraine, The Dresser, Piaf, and Doonesbury. Off Broadway mentions: The Vagina Monologues, and many productions with Joseph Chaikin and Meredith Monk. For Robert Wilson She designed lighting for, Einstein on the Beach and The CIVIL warS part V. Dance, lighting for among others, Trisha Brown, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. She has had seven Tony Award nominations, the 1976 Lumen award, 1984 and 1986 Bessies, and a 1980 Obie for Distinguished Lighting, and several Maharam/American Theater Wing/Henry Hewes  Design Awards.

Bio as of June, 2019

Jules Fisher
Lighting Design – 1978 Honoree for Dancin', 1990 Honoree for Grand Hotel, 1992 Honoree for Jelly’s Last Jam, 1996 Honoree for Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk, 1998 Honoree for Ragtime, 1998 Honoree for Street Corner Symphony, 2004 Honoree for Assassins

Mr. Fisher's work spans more than fifty years on and off Broadway, at concert venues and film sets, with credits surpassing three hundred productions. Mr. Fisher holds an Honorary Doctorate degree of Fine Arts, from Carnegie Mellon University.  Together with Peggy Eisenhauer, in 1985, they started their successful company, Third Eye, which designs lighting for all forms of live entertainment. 

Mr. Fisher as won ten Tony Awards and nominated for a total of twenty-one productions, six of these were shared with Peggy Eisenhauer. 

Bio as of June 2019

Richard Foreman
Noteworthy/Unusual Effects – 2003 Honoree for Panic!

Mr. Foreman is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater. As of June 2019, Richard Foreman has written, directed and designed sixty of his own works both in New York City and abroad. Five of his plays have received Obie Awards for Best Play of the Year, and he has received five other Obies for directing and for "sustained achievement". He has received the annual Literature Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a "Lifetime Achievement in the Theater" award from the National Endowment for the Arts, the PEN American Center Master American Dramatist Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2004 was elected officer of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His archives and work materials have recently been acquired by the Bobst Library at New York University (NYU). His work has been primarily done at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in New York, though he has gained acclaim as director for such productions as Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, at Lincoln Center and the premiere of Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus, at the Public Theater. In 2004, Foreman established the Bridge Project with Sophie Haviland to promote international art exchange between countries around the world through workshops, symposiums, theater productions, visual art, performance and multimedia events. Starting with Zomboid (2006), Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric productions have incorporated the projection of video footage generated through Bridge workshops as a kind of "film-score" that the live performance is conducted in a relation to. Foreman's plays have been co-produced by The New York Shakespeare Festival, La Mama Theatre, The Wooster Group, the Festival d'Autumn in Paris and the Vienna Festival. He has collaborated (as librettist and stage director) with composer Stanley Silverman on 8 music theater pieces produced by The Music Theater Group and The New York City Opera. He wrote and directed the feature film, Strong Medicine. He has also directed and designed many classical productions with major theaters around the world including, The Threepenny Opera, The Golem and plays by Václav Havel, Botho Strauss, and Suzan-Lori Parks for The New York Shakespeare Festival, Die Fledermaus, at the Paris Opera, Don Giovanni, at the Opera de Lille, Philip Glass's Fall of the House of Usher, at the American Repertory Theater and The Maggio Musicale in Florence, Woyzeck, at Hartford Stage Company, Molière's Don Juan, at the Guthrie Theater and The New York Shakespeare Festival, Kathy Acker's Birth of the Poet, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the RO theater in Rotterdam, Gertrude Stein's Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights, at the Autumn Festivals in Berlin and Paris. Seven collections of his plays have already been published, and books studying his work have been published in New York, Paris, Berlin and Tokyo.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Foreman

Bio as of June 2019

David Gallo
Scenic Design – 2000 Honoree for Jitney, 2000 Honoree for The Wild Party,
​​​​​​​2002 Honoree for Wonder of the World, 2007 Honoree for Radio Golf

Mr. Gallo is a four time Hewes Awards honoree for scenic design. His Broadway works include:  First Date, Stick Fly, The Mountaintop, Memphis, Reasons to be Pretty, A Catered Affair, Xanadu, Company, The Drowsy Chaperone (winner: Tony award for best scenic design), Hughie, Drowning Crow, Gem of the Ocean, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Dance of the Vampires, The Smell of the Kill, Thoroughly Modern Millie, King Hedley II,Epic Proportions, Voices in the Dark, 'You're a Good Man,Charlie Brown', Little Me, The Lion in Winter, A View From the Bridge, More to Love, and Jackie: An American Life (also in London). Off-Broadway: Evil Dead The Musical, Bunny Bunny, The Wild Party, Jitney (also in London), Wonder of the World, Jar the Floor, Machinal and Blue Man Group (NYC, Boston, Chicago, Las Vegas). His work represented set design at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Triennial and is in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute. Mr. Gallo is the recipient of numerous Drama Desk, American Theatre Wing, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Ovation, FANY, NAACP, AUDELCO, Barrymore and Eddy Awards and nominations, as well as the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Set Design.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gallo

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Paul Gallo
Lighting Design – 1984 Honoree for The Garden of Earthly Delights,
1987 Honoree for The Hunger Artist
Noteworthy Effects – 1986 Honoree for Vienna Lusthaus, 1991 Honoree for My Civilization

In 2010, Mr. Gallo became one of only six lighting designers in the history of Broadway to have designed over 50 Broadway shows. In his 31 years on Broadway his designs for musicals include: Wonderland, Pal Joey, Never Gonna Dance, Man of LaMancha, Dreamgirls, 42nd Street, The Rocky Horror Show, The Civil War, On The Town, The Sound Of Music, Triumph Of Love, Titanic, Big, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Smokey Joe's Café, Guys And Dolls, Crazy For You, City of Angels, Anything Goes, Smile, The Mystery Of Edwin Drood and Tintypes. He has also designed many award winning plays on Broadway which include: November, A Bronx Tale, Mauritius, Losing Louie, Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Three Days of Rain, The Crucible, 45 Seconds From Broadway, The Man Who Came To Dinner, Epic Proportions, Skylight, The Tempest, I Hate Hamlet, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me A Tenor, Spoils of War, The Comedy Of Errors, The Front Page, The House of Blue Leaves, Heartbreak House, Beyond Therapy, Come Back To The Five And Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Grown Ups, Kingdoms, Candida, The Little Foxes, John Gabriel Borkman and Passione. Mr. Gallo is the recipient of eight Tony nominations, ten Drama Desk nominations (winning one), six Outer Critics Awards, two Obie Awards and the 1986 Obie for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design. He is a graduate of Ithaca College and the Yale School Of Drama. 

Bio as of June, 2019

Edward Gorey
(born 1925 – died 2000)
Scenic Design –19XX for  Dracula

Mr. Gorey, (1925-2000), was a truly prodigious and original artist, He gave to the world, over one hundred works including The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest and The Wuggly Ump; prize-winning set and costume designs for innumerable theater productions from Cape Cod to Broadway; a remarkable number of illustrations in publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times, and in books by a wide array of authors from Charles Dickens to Edward Lear, Samuel Beckett, John Updike, Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, Florence Heide and many others. His well known animated credits for the PBS Mystery series have introduced him to millions of television viewers. Gorey's masterful pen and ink illustrations and his ironic, offbeat humor have brought him critical acclaim and an avid following throughout the world.

Visit his website at: http://www.edwardgoreyhouse.org​​​​​​​
​​​​​​​See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gorey

Bio as of June 2019

Jane Greenwood
Costume Design – 1965 Honoree for Tartuffe, 1995 Honoree for The Heiress, 1995 Honoree for Sylvia, ​​​2003 Honoree for Tartuffe

​​​​​​​2019 ​​​​​​​Ming Cho Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Design

Ms. Greenwood, a Liverpudlian, designed costumes for more than 125 Broadway productions beginning in 1963, with The Ballad of the Sad Café, as well as other productions of note: Once Upon a Mattress, The Little Foxes, An American Daughter, Psychopathia Sexualis, Master Class, Passion, She Loves Me, The Ballad of the Sad Café, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Burton's Hamlet, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Same Time, Next Year, California Suite, Medea, Plenty, Heartbreak House, The Iceman Cometh, Ah, Wilderness!, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Our Town, etc. She has also worked extensively at Lincoln Center Theater and in opera, dance and film. She received 15 Tony Award nominations, the Irene Sharaff Award, Lucille Lortel Award, Helen Hayes Award (Washington) and The Lilly Award. She is a professor at Yale School of Drama.

​​​​​​​See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Greenwood

Bio as of June 2019

Ann Hould-Ward
Costume Design – 1984 Honoree for Sunday In the Park With George,
1994 Honoree for Beauty and the Beast

Ms. Hould-Ward's work spans the thearter, dance, opera, film and television. 
She has won, or been nominated for, virtually every major theater award in existence, including the Tony, Drama Desk, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, American Theatre Wing, Outer Critics Circle and Olivier awards for her costume design. A Tony winner for Beauty and the Beast and Tony nominee for Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, Ms. Hould-Ward’s stage credits also include countless Off-Broadway productions and designs for the most highly regarded regional theaters and the theater world’s finest producers and directors. Ms. Hould-Ward is the recipient of the inaugural Patricia Zipprodt Award for Innovative Costume Design from the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she is a seasoned lecturer on costume design.

Visit her website at:  http://www.annhouldward.com/_/Home.html

Bio as of June, 2019

Allen Lee Hughes
Lighting Design – 1983 Honoree for K2

​​​​​​​2020 ​​​​​​​Ming Cho Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Design

Mr. Hughes is a Lighting Designer and Teacher of Lighting Design He holds a BA from Catholic University and a MFA from New York University. His Broadway credits include Having Our Say, Mule Bone, and Once On This Island, which earned him his third Tony nomination. The Broadway production of K2, brought his first Tony nomination, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and the Joseph Maharam Award (now the Henry Hewes Design Award). Other design work on Broadway includes Strange Interlude, Accidental Death of An Anarchist, and Quilters. New York designs at Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center Theater and Off-Broadway. He received the USITT Distinguished Achievement Award in Lighting Design for 2003. He is the recipient of the 1997 Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration. Recipient of two Helen Hayes Awards in Washington and nominated eight other times. He has extensive regional credits at major theaters throughout the country including: the McCarter Theatre, Seattle Rep, Long Wharf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theatre, Hartford Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Steppenwolf, Kennedy Center, Denver Center, and Alliance Theatre. His dance designs include works for American Ballet Theater, New York City Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Ballet Tech, Hartford Ballet, and Pilobolus Dance Theatre. He has served as an associate artist at Arena Stage, where the fellows program has been named in his honor. Hughes is an associate arts professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

View his YouTube video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JCcG5tDfXs

Bio as of June 2019

Toni-Leslie James
Costume design – 1992 Honoree for Jelly’s Last Jam

​​​​​​​2021 ​​​​​​​Ming Cho Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Design

Ms. James’s Broadway credits include the costume designs for: Come From Away (2017 Drama Desk nomination), the 2017 revival of August Wilson's Jitney (2017 Tony Award nomination, 2017 Drama Desk nomination), Amazing Grace (Hewes Design Award nomination), The Scottsboro Boys (Hewes Design Award nomination), Finian's Rainbow, Chita Rivera: The Dancer's Life, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, King Hedley II, Bernhardt/Hamlet among many others.
She is also active in Off-Broadway, regional and international productions.  

Visit her website at: http://www.portfolio-toni-leslie-james.com
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni-Leslie_James

Bio as of June 2019

Florence Klotz
(born October 28, 1920 – died November 1, 2006)
Costume Design – 1976 Honoree for Pacific Overtures

Ms. Koltz won six Tony awards for: Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Pacific Overtures (1976), Grind (1985), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993) and the 1994 revival of Show Boat. Her other Broadway credits include Take Her, She's Mine, The Owl and the Pussycat and the 1981 revival of Little Foxes starring Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton, A Call on Kuprin (1961). In 1977, she received an Academy Award nomination for the film,  A Little Night Music. Ms. Koltz attended Parsons School of Design. In 1951, she assisted Irene Sharaff on the costume designs for the original production of  The King and I.

Bio as of June, 2019

Heidi Landesman-Ettinger
Scenic Design – 1985 Honoree for Big River

Heidi Ettinger, under her married name Heidi Landesman, made theatrical history when she became the first woman ever awarded a Tony for her set design of the musical Big River. Her work for that show (for which she also received a Tony Award as co-producer and several other awards, including the Drama Desk and Outer Critcs Circle prizes) was followed by her third Tony as designer of Secret Garden and her fourth nomination for producer. In all, she has been nominated for seven Tonys, won an Obie for Sustained Excellence, and has a mantel-full of other prizes and nominations.
Ms. Ettinger’s career on Broadway began with the design for the Pulitzer prize winning 'night, Mother, by Marsha Norman and has continued without interruption (except for the birth of three sons) ever since. Among her favorite designs include the Michael Mayer production of Triumph of Love, the Jerry Zaks production of Smokey Joe’s Cafe, the folk artistry of Tom Sawyer, an enormous abstract elevator for Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame in Berlin, the calamitous but beautiful Red Shoes, and a number of productions at The 2nd Stage, The Public, and several residential theaters. She also served as co-producer for the Sondheim/Lapine hit Into the Woods. She has also designed the set for the opera by Stephen Schwartz (composer and lyricist of Wicked), Seance on a Wet Afternoon, at The New York City Opera Company.
She is a graduate of Occidental College and received her Master’s degree. Board consultant for Yale School of Drama, the Municipal Arts Society and The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Her work has been featured in the Curtain Call exhibit at The Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts.

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Ettinger

Bio as of June, 2019

Eugene Lee
Scenic Design –1974 Honoree for Candide

Mr. Lee's Broadway credits include: Wicked, You're Welcome America, A Final Night with George W Bush, The Homecoming, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Pirate Queen. He has been resident designer at Trinity Repertory since 1967. He has  BFA degrees from the Art Institute of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon, an MFA from Yale and holds three honorary doctorates. He has worked as production designer at Saturday Night Live since the show first aired in 1975. Mr. Lee has won Tony Awards for Candide, Sweeney Todd, and Wicked, and has also won the Drama Desk Award, the American Theatre Wing's Design Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Elliot Norton Award and the Pell Award. Mr. Lee is a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame. Off Broadway work include: Amazing Grace, Alice in Wonderland, Agnes of God, Ragtime, Uncle Vanya,  Bounce,... His film credits include Francis Ford Coppola’s Hammett, John Huston’s Mr. North and Louis Malle’s Vanya on 42nd Street. 

Bio as of June, 2019

Ming Cho Lee
Scenic Design – 1965 Honoree for Electra, 1968 Honoree for Ergo, 1983 Honoree for K2

​​​​​​​2018 Lifetime Achievement Award (now titled in his honor, ​​​​​​​as the
​​​​​​​Ming Cho Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Design)

​​​​​​​Mr. Lee, is presently one of America’s foremost set designers. his voluminous credits include work in opera, theatre, and dance. A native of Shanghai, he attended Occidental College and UCLA. He has collaborated with several leading American dance companies: Martha Graham, American Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet, Eliot Feld Ballet, Jose Limon and Pacific Northwest Ballet. He was the principal designer for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, from 1962 through 1973. Other opera companies with which he has worked include: The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and San Francisco Opera. He has also designed for many theatre groups including Arena Stage, Mark Taper Forum, Guthrie Theatre, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, as well as for Broadway. Mr. Lee’s international credits include productions for Covent Garden (London), Hamburgische Staatsoper, Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires), Royal Danish Ballet, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (Taipei), the Hong Kong Cultural Center, and Buhnen Graz (Austria). His numerous awards and distinctions include a Tony Award, an Obie for sustained achievement, New York Drama Desk and New York and Los Angeles Outer Circle Critics Awards, three honorary doctorates, awards for long-term achievement from 6 major theatre and opera organizations, membership in the Theatre Hall of Fame, and the Mayor's Award for Arts and Culture from New York City. As an architectural consultant, Mr. Lee designed theatres for Joseph Papp's Public Theatre and the State University of New York at Purchase. His work has been displayed at two separate retrospectives, one at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the other in Taipei. He holds the Donald Oenslager Chair in Design and is the co-Chair of the design department at the Yale University School of Drama. Mr. Lee has had a greater influence on American scenography than any other contemporary designer.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_Cho_Lee

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Ralph Lee
Noteworthy / Unusual Effects – masks, puppets, costumes – 1992 Honoree for Wichikapache Goes Walking

Mr. Lee  created puppets as a child in Middlebury, Vermont.  He graduated from Amherst College in 1957, and studied dance and theater in Europe for two years on a Fulbright Scholarship. Upon returning to the United States, Mr. Lee acted on Broadway, off-Broadway, in regional theaters and with the Open Theatre. During that period he started creating masks, unusual props, puppets and larger-than-life figures for theater and dance companies, including the New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre, the Living Theatre, the Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Shari Lewis and Saturday Night Live (he created the Land Shark). In 1974, while teaching at Bennington College,  Mr. Lee staged his first outdoor production, which took place all over the college campus, and featured giant puppets and masked creatures. That same year he organized the first Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, which he directed through 1985. For his work on the parade,  Mr. Lee received a 1975 Village Voice OBIE Award, a 1985 Citation from the Municipal Arts Society, and in 1993 he was inducted into the City Lore People's Hall of Fame. In 1976, Mr. Lee became Artistic Director of the Mettawee River Theatre Company, which has been a center of his creative activity ever since. Mettawee's productions are based on creation myths, trickster tales, Sufi stories, legends and folklore from the world's many cultures. In addition to annual tours to rural communities, Mettawee has presented Ralph Lee's work at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the New York Botanical Garden, Provincetown Playhouse, the Henson Foundation's International Festival of Puppet Theater, LaMama E.T.C., INTAR, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Central Park SummerStage, The Bowery Poetry Club, and many other locations. Ralph Lee is the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama. Two of Ralph Lee's Mettawee productions have been honored with American Theatre Wing Design Awards (now the Henry Hewes Design Awards): The Popol Vuh in 1995 and Wichikapache Goes Walking in 1992. Under Mr. Lee's direction, Mettawee has also received a 1991 Village Voice OBIE Award and two Citations for Excellence from UNIMA, the international puppetry organization. Additional awards to Mr. Lee include a 1996 Dance Theatre Workshop Bessie Award for "sustained achievement as a mask maker and theatre designer without equal" and a 1996 New York State Governor's Arts Award in recognition of his many contributions to the artistic and cultural life of New York State. Since 1989 Ralph Lee has made annual trips to San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, to develop plays and a performing ensemble with the Mayan writers group Sna Jtz' Ibajom. He is an artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, where he has staged special events with masks and giant puppets since 1984. In 1999, he received an award for "excellence in theater" from the New England Theater Conference.  In addition, he has produced parades and pageants featuring his giant figures for celebrations in Central Park, the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Garden, the Ringling Museums in Sarasota, Florida and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, Connecticut. From February through May, 1998, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center presented a retrospective exhibition of Ralph Lee's work that attracted record-breaking crowds to the gallery. As part of the Henson Foundation's International Festival of Puppet Theater, the Children's Museum of the Arts featured an exhibition entitled "The Masks and Magic of Ralph Lee" in September, 1998.
​​​​​​​During 2000 there were three exhibits in New York City featuring creations designed by Ralph Lee for Mettawee productions. Masks and puppets from The Woman Who Fell From The Sky were on exhibit in the ambulatory of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; an array of giant figures were display in the Courtyard Gallery of the World Financial Center, and an exhibit of sketches and models were in the gallery of The Kitchen. Mr. Lee has taught at Amherst College, Smith College, Bennington College, Hampshire College, Hamilton College, Colgate University, the University of Rio Grande and the University of North Carolina. 

Bio as of June 2019

William Ivey Long
Costume Design – 1982 Honoree for Nine, 2000 Honoree for Contact, 2000 Honoree for
The Music Man, 2000 Honoree for Swing, 2005 Honoree for La Cage aux Folles,
2011 Honoree for The School for Lies  

Mr. Long´s costumes first appeared on Broadway in a revival of Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General, and has since gone on to work on more than sixty Broadway productions. Among his myriad of credits: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella for which he won a Tony Award, Big Fish, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Don't Dress for Dinner, Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, Catch Me If You Can, Pal Joey, 9 to 5, Young Frankenstein, Curtains, Grey Gardens (Tony Award), The Producers (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), A Streetcar Named Desire, La Cage Aux Folles, The Boy from Oz, Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards). Other Broadway Credits include: Cabaret, Contact (Hewes Award), The Music Man, Annie Get Your Gun, Swing, Smokey Joe's Cafe, Crazy for You (Tony, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Guys and Dolls (Drama Desk Award), A Christmas Carol, Six Degrees of Separation, Lend Me a Tenor (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards), and Nine (Tony, Drama Desk, Maharam Awards). 
He has also designed for such artists as Mick Jagger, Siegfried and Roy, the Pointer Sisters, Joan Rivers, and for choreographers Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, Peter Martins, David Parsons and Susan Stroman. 
​​​​​​​Mr. Long has been nominated for 13 Tony Awards, was voted into the Theater Hall of Fame in 2005, and was elected Chairman of The American Theatre Wing in June, 2012.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ivey_Long

Bio as of June, 2019

Charles Ludlam
(born 1943 – died 1987)
Scenic Design – 1985 Honoree for The Mystery of Irma Vep

Mr. Ludlam grew up in Queens, New York, not far from Greenwich Village, and the heart of Gay America in the late 1960's. At twenty-four, he founded the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, where he wrote, directed and performed in almost every production for the next two decades, often with Everett Quinton, his life partner and muse, by his side. Renowned for drag, high comedy, melodrama, satire, precise literary references, gender politics, sexual frolic, and a multitude of acting styles, the Ridiculous Theater guaranteed a kind of biting humor that could both sting and tickle. He was a treasure and will be missed for generations. His many plays included Turds in Hell, Der Ring Gott Farblonjet, a riff on Wagner's Ring Cycle, Bluebeard, and The Mystery of Irma Vep, his most popular play, and a performer's tour-de-force. Ludlam continued working until almost the day he died of PCP pneumonia, just three months after his AIDS diagnosis. He was 44.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ludlam 

Bio as of June 2019

Kert F. Lundell
(born 1936 – died 2000)
Scenic Design -1972 Honoree for Ain’t Supposed To Die A Natural Death

Mr. Lundell, was a set designer and enjoyed a career that spanned more than 30 years in theater, film and television. Working with such legends as Gower Champion, Manny Azenburg, Melvin Van Peebles, Neil Simon, Kurt Dempster and Sam Shepard, he designed the sets for many Broadway and Off-Broadway plays and musicals. His credits include: Under the Weather by Saul Bellow, The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon and directed by Alan Arkin, Aint Supposed to Die a Natural Death by Melvin Van Peebles, Peter Weiss' The Investigation, directed by Ulu Groabard, and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Leonard Bernstein’s last original score. Mr. Lundell was nominated for a Tony Award and won the Drama Desk Award in set design for Aint Supposed to Die a Natural Death in 1972. He was nominated for a Drama Desk in 1983 for Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, which was produced by Circle Reperatory Co. Early in his career he was involved with The American Place Theater and had a long standing relationship with The Ensemble Studio Theater.

Bio as of June 2019

Judith Martin
(born 1918 – died 2012)
Sustained Contribution 1990 Honoree for “Paper Bag Players”

Ms. Martin, for more than forty years, was a leading figure in the field of children's theater as co-founder and Artistic Director of America's longest-running children's theater, The Paper Bag Players. A modern dancer, a highly skilled visual artist, and a possessor of an original sense of humor and imagination, Ms. Martin wove together music, dance, visual arts and contemporary tales into theatrical pieces that affirm life's endless possibility for fun, adventure and surprise. Her plays published independently and incorporated in anthologies of children's literature assure that The Paper Bag Players shows are performed by professionals and amateur theater groups throughout the world. More than five million children have seen The Paper Bag Players perform. In addition to 37 of the United States and Canada, England, Scotland, and Wales, The Paper Bag Players have performed in many non-English speaking countries including Israel, Egypt, Hong Kong, Iran, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Japan. The list of awards received by Judith Martin are unmatched, including: an OBIE for, "raising the level of children's theater through intelligence and imagination," The Sara Spencer Award and Jennie Heiden Award from the American Alliance for Theater and Education, two American Theater Wing Awards for, "sustained contributions to American Theater design" and "consistent commitment to excellence in professional theater," a PARENTS Magazine "As They Grow' Award," a New York State Governor's Artists Award and most recently an award for Excellence in Theater and Education from The Broadway Institute.

See also: https://thepaperbagplayers.org
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Bag_Players
​​​​​​​See also: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/theater/judith-martin-a-founder-of-paper-bag-players-dies-at-93.html

Bio as of June 2019

Derek McLane 
Scenic Design – 2009 Honoree for 33 Variations

Mr. McLane is a scenic designer whose work has been seen in more than three hundred productions around the world. His On and Off-Broadway credits include: Moulin Rouge! The Musical (2019), Burn This (2019), American Son, Gettin' the Band Back Together, Children of a Lesser God, The Parisian Woman, The Price, Fully Committed, Noises Off, Lestat, The Threepenny Opera, The Pajama Game, Little Women, I Am My Own Wife, The Women, Present Laughter, London Assurance, Holiday, Summer and Smoke, The Three Sisters, Abigail's Party, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Hurlyburly, Saturday Night, and myriad more. Elsewhere: Sondheim Celebration (Kennedy Center) and productions at most major resident theaters and operas. Awards:a Tony Award and four nominations, 1997/2004 Obie Awards, Drama-Logue Award, 2003 Michael Merritt Award, 2004 and 2005 Lucille Lortel Awards and five Drama Desk nominations. 

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_McLane 

Bio as of June 2019

Patricia McGourty
Costume Design – 1981 Honoree for The Pirates of Penzance, 1985 Honoree for
Big River

Ms. McGourty has had three noteworthy art and design careers.
As a costume designer her work has been appreciated from the New York stage to the film sets of California. Collaborating with creative teams over a period of eighteen years, on productions ranging from regional Shakespeare Festivals to Broadway musicals. Her costumes have played on stages in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East.
As a painter and collage  artist, Ms. McGourty lived twelve years in the Middle East developing her personal artwork which she sees as a visual dialogue with  diverse world cultures and communities.
Additionally she was the artistic director for ArtWorks, an arts and culture consultancy in Dubai.
Theatrical design, public art and cross-cultural art forms have served to expand her collaborative work  into art and design for “The World Stage” of our global community.

Visit her website at:  http://www.patriciamcgourtydesigns.com

​​​​​​​Bio as of June, 2019

Richard Nelson
(born 1938 – died 1996)

Lighting Design – 1984 Honoree for Sunday in the Park with George

Mr. Nelson's long career centered in New York theater began in 1955 and ended in 1996.
Some notable credits include: Sunday in the Park with George (Tony Award for Best Lighting Design and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design), Coco, The Magic Show, So Long, 174th Street, The Lady From Dubuque, The Tap Dance Kid, Into the Woods, and revivals of: Morning's at Seven, Awake and Sing!, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Blithe Spirit, The Night of the Iguana, and Private Lives, among others.
​​​​​​​Mr Nelson was the resident lighting designer for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1968 to 1973, and worked with such choreographers as Martha Graham, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp and Erick Hawkins.  He taught theater at the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor as well as at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. 
Nelson is also  responsible for the lighting design at the Ronald Reagan Memorial Library in Simi Valley, California.

Bio as of June 2019

Everett Quinton
Costume Design – 1985 Honoree for The Mystery of Irma Vep, 1986 Honoree for Salammbô

Mr. Quinton is an actor, director and playwright and was a longtime member of Charles Ludlam's The Ridiculous Theatrical Company where he was an actor, director and costume designer. 
While with Ludlam, he appeared in over 75 productions including: Camille, Bluebeard, Exquisite Torture,Turds In Hell, Conquest Of The Universe, Utopia, Inc, The Bells, Movieland, Galas, Salammbô, A Tale Of Two Cities (Obie Award), The Mystery Of Irma Vep (Obie and Drama Desk Awards), Linda, Der Ring Gott Farblonjet, among many.
Mr. Quinton, has appeared in award winning Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional thearter as well as film and television. Among his credits:  Natural Born Killers (1994), Pollock (2000), The Sorrows of Dolores (1986), The Louise Log, Nurse Jackie, Louie, Big Business, Deadly Illusion, Forever Lulu, Miami Vice, The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C.,
 A Christmas Carol  at The McCarter Theater. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad, at Cleveland State University's Summer Stages. 

Visit his website at: https://www.everettquinton.net/biography#

Bio as of June 2019

Carrie Robbins
Costume Design - 1975 Honoree for Polly

Designer Carrie Robbins’ noted work of more than thirty Broadway shows, including Class Act, Grease (original), Agnes of God, Yentl, Octette Bridge Club , Sweet Bird of Youth (Bacall), Frankenstein, Happy End (Streep), Boys of Winter, Cyrano (Langella), Shadow Box (Ruehl).
Her awards and nominations include: five Drama Desk Awards, the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award presented by the Theatre Development Fund & the tdf/Costume Collection with the support of the Tobin Theatre Arts Fund, two Tony (nominations), Maharam, USITT/Prague International, L.A. Dramalogue, Henry Hughes, F.I.T-Surface Design, and Audelco, among others.
Ms, Robbins’ costumes for the Irving Berlin musical White Christmas, have played major cities in the USA, Broadway, & Great Britain. Her national work includes M. Butterfly and On the Verge, with the Arena Stage, and the Gershwin musical An American In Paris by Ken Ludwig for director Gregory Boyd at the Alley Theatre, in Houston, Additionally both The Tempest, with Anthony Hopkins as Prospero and Flea in Her Ear, directed by Tom Moore at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Ms. Robbins has worked for many productions a:t the Guthrie in St. Paul Minn., Williamstown, Mass. and a myriad of other venues from Alaska to Buffalo.
Robbins has an MFA from Yale School of Drama and held the position of Master Teacher of Costume Design at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts for many years. She is extremely proud of the extraordinary number of award-winning, successful young costume designers and costume teachers across the country who came out of her classes.

Visit her website at: http://carrierobbinsdesignageinc.com/carrie.html

Bio as of June, 2019

Jerome Sirlin
Scenic Design – 1989 Honoree for 1,000 Airplanes on the Roof

Mr. Sirlin has designed throughout the US, Canada and Europe, his productions range from avant-garde collaborations with Philip Glass, Allen Ginsberg and Lou Reed to pop concerts for Madonna and Paul Simon; from the classic world of Wagner's Ring Cycle and Verdi's Macbeth to contemporary operas such as John Corigliano's Ghosts of Versailles and Jonathan Dove's Flight; from big budget musicals like Kiss of the Spider Woman, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane and Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame to more intimate theatricals such as Piazzolla's Maria de Buenos Aires and the traveling stage circus Cirque Ingenieux.
Among Mr. Sirlin's theatrical awards, of note: Drama Desk Award forOutstanding Set Design, the Olivier Award for Best Set Designer and a Tony Award for Best Scenic Design, and a Henry Hewes Design Award.
In addition to Musical Theater and Opera, he has designed multimedia installations and shows for museums and other cultural institutions. Freedom Rising at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia gives the American Constitution both a historical and contemporary context. The video finale for the Hershey Park's Chocolate World Tour Ride, Hershey, Pennsylvania provides a whimsical ride through a landscape of American iconography.
Projects combining direction and scenic design include the European premiere of John Corigliano's opera The Ghosts of Versailles, Toshiro Mayuzumi's Kinkakuji (from the novel The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima) for New York City Opera, and the world premiere of Marilyn – an opera by Ezra Laderman based on the last months of Marilyn Monroe's life. Arizona Opera's production of Candide (2018).

Bio as of June 2019

Theodora Skipitares
Noteworthy/Unusual Effects - 1999, Honoree for A Harlot’s Progress

Ms. Skipitares, a multi-media visual artist and theatre director, has been creating her works for more than forty years. Her puppetry and original works have been widely praised for their conceptual brilliance. She is an Associate Professor of Art and Design Education at Pratt Institute.

Visit her website at: http://theodoraskipitares.com
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_Skipitares

Bio as of June 2019

Robert U. Taylor
Scenic Design -1972 Honoree for Beggar’s Opera

Mr. Taylor a Scenic Designer, attended  the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale University. Taylor has designed for a myriad of national productions primarily in New York, in both on and off Broadway productions.  He has won the Drama Desk Award, Obie Awards and other theater awards.
He has worked extensively in film and TV, designed over 700 commercials, many won Clios. He has designed a dozen restaurants in New York City and abroad.  He has taught at Princeton University, Hunter College, Rhode Island School of Design, and lectured on CGI at Yale.
Mr. Taylor enjoys extensive design credits with major film studios and the international amusement park industry. Titles and projects of note: Back to the Future, The Ride, a Sega video simulator film with Steven Spielberg at the LUXOR theme park in Los Vegas, film work for Judge Dredd, Eraser, Event Horizon, Shadow Conspiracy, Starship Troopers, The Matrix, What Dreams May Come, a Disney Productions interactive ride /CGI project derived from the book Dinotopia, and The Book of Pooh.
Adirondack Scenic an amusement park ride for Universal Studios Dubailand i. a project for Make A Wish Foundation: the Wishing Castle in NJ; a Sesame Street Darkride project for Resorts World, Universal, Singapore, for Westgate Park in Singapore, show environment designs for Wuhan Movie Themepark, by the Dalian Wanda Group, Shanghai XianDai Arch.Des. Ltd., in Harbin, Nanchang, and Guangzhou.
He designed and rendered ext. & int. architectural projects in MA and CT., a Condo Project with 52 duplexes and 18 single units, & architectural projects in FL, GA, CO, & Mexico.
​​​​​​​He had 10 shows of his paintings, & several of his set designs & models are in various books on set design & have been exhibited at the Smithsonian, the I.T.I., and at the McNay Art Museum coll. of scenic art, San Antonio, Texas.

Bio as of June 2019

Julie Taymor
Scenic Design, Costume Design, and Notable Effects – 1980 Honoree for
The Haggadah
Notable Effects – 1988 Honoree for Juan Darién: A Carnival Mask​​​​​​​
Costume Design – 1998 for The Lion King

In 1998, Ms. Taymor won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical and for Best Costumes for The Lion King. She also won Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League awards for her direction, and myriad awards for her original costume, mask and puppet designs. Ms. Taymor made her Broadway debut in 1996 with Juan Darién: A Carnival Mask (Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater), nominated for five Tony Awards. Other theater work includes The Green Bird (New Victory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse and the Cort Theatre on Broadway); Titus Andronicus, The Tempest and The Taming of the Shrew (Theatre for a New Audience); Juan Darién: A Carnival Mask (Music-Theatre Group); co-adapter and director of The Transposed Heads (Lincoln Center and American Music Theatre Festival) and Liberty's Taken (Castle Hill Festival); designer and choreographer of The King Stag (American Repertory Theatre). Opera direction: Grendel (Los Angeles Opera and the Lincoln Center Festival); The Magic Flute (Maggio Musicale, Florence); Oedipus Rex (Saito Kinen Festival, Japan); Salomé (Kirov Opera); The Flying Dutchman (Los Angeles Opera). Film direction: Across the Universe (2006); Frida (2002), winner of two Academy Awards, starring Salma Hayek; Titus (1999), starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange. Fool's Fire (for American Playhouse) premiered at Sundance and aired on PBS in 1992. Books: Julie Taymor: Playing With Fire, spanning more than 20 years of her work (Abrams); illustrated screenplays for Titus and Frida (Newmarket Press); The Lion King: Pride Rock on Broadway (Hyperion). Ms. Taymor's awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Emmy for her film of Oedipus Rex, Obie Awards for Visual Magic and for Juan Darién: A Carnival Mask, the Brandeis Creative Arts Award, the Dorothy Chandler Performing Arts Award and the International Classical Music Award for Best Opera Production (Oedipus Rex).

Bio as of June, 2019

Louisa Thompson
​​​​​​​Scenic Design – 2002 Honoree for [Sic], 2009 Honoree for Blasted

Ms. Thompson’s NYC credits include: If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (2019), Days of Rage (2018), Everyone's Fine With Virginia Woolf (2018), The Red Letter Plays: In the Blood (2017), The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence, Detroit, Gatz, This, Elevator Repair Service; Soho Repertory Theatre; Target, Margin Theater; Clubbed Thumb; Rattlestick, Playwrights Theater; Theatreworks USA; The Foundry Theater Company; MCC Theatre. Regional credits: Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Center Theatre Group; Arden Theatre; Bard SummerScape; The McCarter Theatre; The Papermill Playhouse; Shakespeare Santa Cruz; La Jolla Playhouse; The Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis; Philadelphia Theatre Company; Geva Theatre; Triad Stage; The Empty Space Theatre; Yale Repertory Theatre; The Juilliard School.
Ms. Thompson has an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama and is an Associate Professor at Hunter College New York.
She is the recipient of a 2019 Obie Award,  for Sustained Excellence in Scenic Design.

See also: http://iobdb.com/CreditableEntity/11626

Bio as of June 2019

Jennifer Tipton
Lighting Design – 1987 Honoree for Worstward Ho, 1989 Honoree for
A Tale of Two Cities, 1989 Honoree for Jerome Robbins’ Broadway,
1989 Honoree for Long Day’s Journey Into Night, 1989 Honoree for
The Rimers of Eldritch, 1989 Honoree for Waiting for Godot

2022 ​​​​​​​Ming Cho Lee Award for Lifetime Achievement in Design

Tipton came to New York to study dance, after attending Cornell.  Her interest in lighting began with a course in the subject at the American Dance Festival, Connecticut College. She has been awarded two Bessies and a Laurence Olivier Award for lighting dance; her work in that field includes pieces choreographed by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jiri Kylian, Dana Reitz, Jerome Robbins, Paul Taylor, Twyla Tharp, and Dan Wagoner, among many others. 
In the theatre, she has won a Joseph Jefferson Award, a Kudo, a Drama-Logue Award, two American Theatre Wing Awards, an Obie, two Drama Desk Awards, the first for The Cherry Orchard and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf; the second for Jerome Robbins' Broadway, and two Tonys for The Cherry Orchard and Jerome Robbins' Broadway. Ms. Tipton was recently nominated for a Tony Award for To Kill A Mocking Bird. She is a recipient of six Henry Hewes Design Awards.
Her opera work includes Robert Wilson's production of Parsifal at the Houston Grand Opera and Peter Sellar's production of Tannhauser for the Chicago Light Opera. In the fall of 1991 she directed a production of The Tempest at the Guthrie. She has been an artistic associate with the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge and the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. In 1982, she received the Creative Arts Award in Dance from Brandeis University. She held a Guggenheim Fellowship for the 1986-87 season and received the 1989 Commonwealth Award in Dramatic Arts. In 1991, she received a Dance Magazine Award. She has been a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Theater Program Distinguished Artist Award, and a grant in the National Theatre Artist Residency Program funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Ms. Tipton also teaches lighting at the Yale University School of Drama. Her lighting designs have been employed at the American Ballet Theatre's repertory since 1971.

See her YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubcYEcM40bM

Bio as of September 2022

Robin Wagner
Scenic Design –1973 Honoree for Seesaw

Mr. Wagner's extensive Broadway designs include: Young Frankenstein, The Producers (Tony Award), The Boy From Oz, Kiss Me, Kate, Saturday Night Fever, Side Show, Angels in America, Victor/Victoria, Jelly's Last Jam, City Of Angels (Tony Award), Crazy for You, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Chess, 42nd Street, Dreamgirls, On the Twentieth Century (Tony Award), A Chorus Line, Jesus Christ Superstar, Lenny, Promises, Promises, The Great White Hope, and Hair. Other thearter design work includes operas, ballet, : the Metropolitan, Swedish Royal, Vienna State, Hamburg State Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden and the New York City Ballet. Mr. Wagner has been a six time winner of the Drama Desk Award, three Tony awards for scenic design, Outer Critics Circle and other mentions. Mr. Wagner is a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame, and is a trustee of the Public Theater.

Bio as of June, 2019

Tony Walton
Scenic Design – 1986 Honoree for The House of Blue Leaves, 1994 Honoree for
She Loves Me

Mr. Walton was born in England in 1934. His first his stage design was for Noël Coward's Broadway production of Conversation Piece (1957). 
Among his many notable credits: for the Irish Repertory Theatre he has directed and designed The Importance of Being Earnest, Major Barbara and the U.S. premiere of Noël Coward's 
After The Ball. And on Broadway, Well (2006) and revivals of Our Town, I'm Not Rappaport, 
The Man Who Came to Dinner, Uncle Vanya, Annie Get Your Gun, 1776, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, She Loves Me, Guys and Dolls, Anything Goes, Bob Fosse's original productions of Chicago and Pippin; Pinter's Moonlight and Ashes to Ashes; Grand Hotel, The Real Thing, The Will Rogers Follies, and The House of Blue Leaves, Madison Square Garden's A Christmas Carol and Julie Andrews' triumphant revival of The Boy Friend. He also directed and designed the smash hit revival of
Where's Charlie? for the Goodspeed Opera House, and other distinguished regional theaters. For the past 50 years Mr. Walton has designed settings and costumes film too, including:Mary Poppins, Murder on the Orient Express, Fahrenheit 451, The Wiz, The Boy Friend, All That Jazz, Death of a Salesman, The Glass Menagerie, Regarding Henry, and Deathtrap. His many awards include the Oscar, the Emmy and 3 Tonys (16 nominations). He was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame in 1991.

Bio as of June 2019

Angela Wendt
Costume Design – 1996 Honoree for Rent

Ms. Wendt received a 1996 Drama Desk Award nomination for Rent. Ms. Wendt is from Germany where she studied set and costume design in Berlin at Hochschule der Kunste. Her theater credits include productions of Rent, The Distance From Here, Underpants, Race, Bright Lights, Big City, the American premiere of Play with Repeats by Martin Crimp, Lysistrata directed by Barry Edelstein, The Autobiography of Aiken Fiction by Kate Moira Ryan (Samuel Beckett Theatre), Twelfth Night (Tennessee Rep), The Great Pretenders (Juilliard), Marisol by Jose Rivera (Public). Feature films include; Childhood's End directed by Jeff Lipsky. She has designed for Dance performances: Tilliboyo and Regions by Molissa Fenley; Savanna by Peggy Baher, as well as numerous music videos in the U.S. and Europe.

See also: https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Angela-Wendt/

Bio as of June 2019

Peter Wexler
​​​​​​​Scenic Design – 1968 Honoree for The Happy Time

Mr. Wexler  has worked for more than six decades in the realm of performance art; as a designer of scenery, costumes, lighting, concerts, indoor and outdoor performance facilities. He additionally has ben a producer and  a studio artist. Among his credits of note, designs for Broadway (The Happy Time); off-Broadway (War and Peace); The Metropolitan Opera (Les Troyens); The New York Philharmonic (The Rugs Concerts, The Promenades Concerts); The Boston Symphony (Pops); The Los Angeles Symphony (Hollywood Bowl); and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He has also produced large exhibitions (The Smithsonian Institution) and has consulted on the design of theatres and concert performance spaces including the Carlos Moseley Music Pavilion in Central Park, NY, which he conceived. The Library at Furman University in Greenville, SC is currently digitizing all of his projects for online availability as THE PETER WEXLER DIGITAL MUSEUM AT FURMAN UNIVERSITY. Website>>  (http://www.peterwexlerstudio.com/index.html  Mr. Wexler was active in founding regional theatres (the Mark Taper Forum and the Pittsburgh Public Theatre) and consulted on TV design (The Merv Griffin Show, The ABC World News with Peter Jennings). He has produced large outdoor music festivals featuring artists such as the Dixie Chicks, Willie Nelson, Van Cliburn and Mstislav Rostropovich.

Bio as of June 2019

Robert Wilson
Scenic Design – 1975 Honoree for A Letter For Queen Victoria 
Notable Effects – 1987 Honoree for The Civil Wars – Act 5, The Trees

Mr. Wilson has been acknowledged as a leading figure of the international avant-garde theatre world. As a director and playwrite, his works integrate a variety of artistic media, including movement, dance, painting, lighting, furniture design, sculpture, music, and text. He is also a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, as well as sound and lighting designer. 
After attending Pratt Institute, MFA 1964, Wilson's lengthy career began to take shape with an early happening, Duricglte & Tomorrow, 1965. Over the decades since, Wilson has notably collaborated with: Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds, creating such pieces as Deafman Glance (1970), and The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (1973). The opera, Einstein on the Beach, 1976, was written with composer Philip Glass. The production changed conventional perceptions of opera as an art form. In Europe, original works include, Death, Destruction and Detroit I-III (Berlin; 1975, 1987,1999), and has directed and designed productions from the original repertoire, including his 1987 version of Strauss's Salomé at La Scala in Milan; Parsifal (Hamburg, 1991); Lohengrin (Zurich, 1991); Madam Butterfly (1993) at the Opera Bastille; Der Ring des Nibelungen (Zurich, 1999); and Faust (2008) for the Polish National Opera. 
 Of a lengthly list of awards and honors, include the German Theatre Critics Award for "Best Production of the Year"; a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Director for Deafman Glance; and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for lifetime achievement. In 1986 his international epic CIVIL warS, was the sole nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Other notable productions include: Alice (with Tom Waits and Paul Schmidt), 1992; Skin, Meat, Bone (with Alvin Lucier), 1994; Timerocker (with Lou Reed), 1997; Georg Büchner's Woyzeck (with Tom Waits), 2002; Jean de La Fontaine's The Fables, 2005; Ibsen's Peer Gynt, 2005 (in Norway); Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, 2007(in Berlin); , Polish National Opera, 2008; Sonnets based on Shakespeare's Sonnets with Rufus Wainwright, 2009 (in Berlin); The Life and Death of Marina Abramović with Marina Abramović, 2011 (Manchester International Festival, UK); Jungle Book [Le livre de la jungle] with CocoRosie, based on "The Jungle Book" by Rudyard Kipling (1894) [French version]. (Luxembourg) 2019.

Visit his website at: http://www.robertwilson.com/chronology-theater 
​​​​​​​See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wilson_(director)

​​​​​​​Bio as of June 2019

Robert Wierzel
Lighting Design – 1991 Honoree for Hydrogen Jukebox

As a lighting designer, Mr. Wierzel has worked with artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds in theater, dance, new music, museums and opera on stages nationally and abroad. Mr. Wierzel has worked with the following: Glimmerglass Festival, New York City Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Chicago Opera Theater, Florida Grand Opera, Folk Opera of Sweden, Gotham Chamber Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Lincoln Center Great Performances, Lyric Opera of Chicago, L'Operade of Montreal, Manhattan School of Music, Minnesota Opera, Nashville Opera, Opera Cleveland, Opera Columbus, Opera Omaha, Pittsburgh Opera, Portland Opera, San Diego Opera, San Francisco Opera, Seattle Opera, Tokyo Opera, Utah Opera and Symphony, Vancouver Opera, Virginia Opera, Washington Opera, Doug Varone and Dancers, Donna Uchizono Dance Company, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Sean Curran Dance Company, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Diversions Dance Company, Alonzo's King's Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, Larry Goldhuber Dance, Boston Ballet, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Berlin Opera Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Company, Connecticut Ballet, Paul Hall Contemporary Dance Theatre, Alliance Theatre Company, A Contemporary Theatre of Seattle, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, A.C.T. American Conservatory Theatre, Alley Theatre, A.R.T. American Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Festival, Center Stage, Center Theatre Group Los Angeles, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theatre Center, Delaware Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center, The Goodman Theatre, The Guthrie Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Huntington Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre, among many others.

Mr. Wierzel has the following awards to his credit: the Primetime Emmy Award, Obie Award, and Bessie Award along with several nominations for his work including multiple Audelco Award nominations, Joseph Jefferson Award nomination, Barrymore Award nomination, Helen Hayes Design Award nomination, the  LA Theatre Ovation Award, the Henry Hewes Design Award for Lighting Design Award and a Tony nomination for Best Lighting Design in a Musical, in 2010. 

See also:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wierzel

Michael Yeargan
Scenic Design – 1979 Honoree for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,
2003 Honoree for The Light in The Piazza

Mr. Yeargan’s professional life has been mostly as a Scenic designer although early on he did some costume design as well. His Broadway credits include:  South Pacific (Tony and Outer Critics Circle Award noms., Drama Desk Award), Cymbeline, Awake and Sing! (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination), Edward Albee's Seascape, The Light in the Piazza (Tony and Drama Desk Awards, Outer Critics Circle Award nom.), The Ritz (original production), Hay Fever with Rosemary Harris; Ah, Wilderness! with Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst; A Lesson From Aloes; as well as many credits in Off-Broadway and regional theatre. In London: Becket, Cyrano de Bergerac. Opera works include: Metropolitan Opera (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Otello, Ariadne auf Naxos, Cosí fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Susanna, The Great Gatsby), NY City Opera (Norma, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, La Finta Giardiniera) as well as work at major opera companies throughout the United States, Europe and Australia.

Bio as of June 2019

Paul Zaloom
Lighting Design – 1996 Honoree for Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk

Mr. Zaloom is a comedic puppeteer, political satirist, filmmaker, and performance artist who lives and works in Los Angeles and tours his work all over the world. Zaloom has written, designed and performed 12 full length solo spectacles, including Fruit of Zaloom, Sick But True, Mother of All Enemies and, White Like Me: A Honky Dory Puppet Show.
Zaloom began his career with the avant-garde puppet company, the Bread and Puppet Theater, in Vermont at the age of 19. After thirty years with Bread and Puppet Theater, he began making solo shows in 1978 and has since worked with found objects, rod puppets, toy theater, shadow puppets, overhead projections, cantastoria (story telling with pictures), hand puppets, and humanettes.
Zaloom has played the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Spoleto Festival USA, and King Tut's Wah-Wah Hut, plus hundreds of other venues in 40 states. Numerous international festivals have featured his work on his many European tours. On the screens he is known for Beakman's World (1992, four seasons), Dante's Inferno (2007) and In Smog and Thunder (2003).  

Visit his website at: http://www.zaloom.com/index.html

Bio as of June 2019