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Projection Designer

Wendall Harrington

Wendall Harrington on the red carpet for the Knights of Illumination, leaning on a sword

About

Opera design: Werther at the Met, Julie Taymor’s The Magic Flute in Florence, Italy; A View From the BridgeDie GezeichnetenNixon in ChinaThe PhotographerBrundibárTransatlanticThe Grapes of WrathRusalka, and Intelligence at Houston Grand Opera.

Broadway: Paradise SquareDriving Miss DaisyGrey GardensThey’re Playing Our SongMy One and OnlyThe Heidi ChroniclesThe Will Rogers FolliesHaving Our SayCompanyRagtimeThe Capeman, and The Who’s Tommy.

Off-Broadway: Sunday in the Park with GeorgeAngels in AmericaHapgoodMerrily We Roll Along.

Ballet: The Fairy’s KissPictures at an ExhibitionAnna KareninaFirebirdCinderella and Opera for Alexei Ratmansky; Othello for Lar Lubovitch; Ballet Mécanique for Doug Varone; Nutcracker and Firebird for Miami; Sylvia for Houston Grand Opera.

Concert: Kevin Puts’ The Brightness of Light, The Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense, Pete Townshend’s Psychoderelict, and tours for Chris Rock and Simon & Garfunkel.

Harrington is the recipient of the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the American Theatre Wing Award, the TCI Award for Technical Achievement, the Obie Award for sustained excellence of projections, the Michael Merritt Award for collaboration, the Ruth Morley Women in Design Award, USITT Education and Digital Technology awards, and Lifetime Recognition from the Knights of Illumination.

Harrington is the head of the projection design concentration at the Yale School of Drama.