Design
The panel — Tony Award winning lighting designer Beverly Emmons for Amadeus, Passion and The Heiress; costume designer Danny Gates (When Pigs Fly); 1997 Tony Award winners for Best Scenic Design for Jekyll and Hyde James Noone and director/designer Robin Phillips; puppeteer Basil Twist (Peter and Wendy); director Mark Waldrop (When Pigs Fly); and producer/playwright Liza Lorwin (Peter and Wendy) — talk about how designers work with directors, producers and writers; directing in addition to designing; creating pop-up sets; working with the late Howard Crabtree on When Pigs Fly, with a detailed demonstration of costumes; Jekyll and Hyde’s movable plexiglass towers, backdrops, and lighting with new Varilights technology; and the unanswerable question of “what makes good design?”
Original airdate - September 1, 1997.
Running time - 90 minutes.
For more information see Working in the Theatre’s Design program page.
You can also download the Design program (mp4).
Posted on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
by
American Theatre Wing
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