Beowulf Boritt: Transforming Space Over Time — Design for the Stage

Beowulf Boritt is a Tony Award-winning set designer whose work spans over 33 Broadway productions, including New York, New York and Act One (Tony Award for Best Scenic Design), as well as The Scottsboro Boys, POTUS, Thérèse Raquin, and Flying Over Sunset (Tony nominations). His extensive Broadway credits also include Left On Tenth, Our Town, The Piano Lesson, Ohio State Murders, The Old Man and the Pool, Come From Away, Freestyle Love Supreme, Be More Chill, The New One, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Harmony, Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, Prince Of Broadway, Hand To God, Sondheim On Sondheim, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, LoveMusik, Rock Of Ages, Chaplin, On The Town (2014), Sunday In the Park With George (2017), Bronx Bombers, Grace, and The Two And Only.

Off-Broadway, he has designed over 100 productions, including Shakespeare in the Park (Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Coriolanus), The Last Five Years, The Connector, Fiddler on the Roof (in Yiddish), Sleepwalk With Me, and Miss Julie. His work has also extended to the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and international productions in England, Russia, China, Australia, and Japan.

Boritt is the author of Transforming Space Over Time, a book about Broadway set design, and the founder of The 1/52 Project, which provides grants to early-career designers from historically excluded groups. In recognition of his contributions to theater design, he received the 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence.

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Helena Uceda.

The Diane Lewis Student Lecture Series is endowed by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown.

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