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SUSAN HILFERTY (Costume Design) has designed over 300 productions from Broadway to the Bay area- and internationally including Japan, London, Australia, Germany and South Africa. Recent designs include Wicked (2004 Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk awards and Olivier nomination), Spring Awakening (B'way, tour and London (Tony nomination), August Wilson's Radio Golf and Jitney, Lestat (Tony nomination), Assassins, Into the Woods (Tony and Drama Desk nominations; Hewes Award), Manon at LA opera and Berlin Staatsoper, Richard Nelson's Conversations in Tusculum, Caryl Churchill's Drunk Enough to Say I Love You and Chris Durang's The Marriage of Bette and Boo. She works with such well-known directors as Athol Fugard (the South African writer with whom she works as set and costume designer and often as co-director since 1980), Joe Mantello, James Lapine, Michael Mayer, Walter Bobbie, Robert Falls, Tony Kushner, Robert Woodruff, JoAnne Akalaitis, the late Garland Wright, Scott Elliot, James MacDonald, Bart Sher, Mark Lamos, Frank Galati, Des McAnuff, Christopher Ashley, Emily Mann, David Jones, Marion McClinton, Rebecca Taichman, Laurie Anderson, Carole Rothman, Garry Hynes, and Richard Nelson. Hilferty also designs for opera, film, and dance, and chairs the Department of Design for Stage and Film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She was awarded a 2000 OBIE for Sustained Excellence in Design.
Bio as of April, 2009.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
Working in the Theatre (video)
Crafting Worlds: Theatrical Design - March, 2009 - Watch now.
Downstage Center (audio)
Susan Hilferty - September, 2009 - Listen Now.
American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award Winner - 2002
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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