Wendall Harrington
About
Opera design: Werther at the Met, Julie Taymor’s The Magic Flute in Florence, Italy; A View From the Bridge, Die Gezeichneten, Nixon in China, The Photographer, Brundibár, Transatlantic, The Grapes of Wrath, Rusalka, and Intelligence at Houston Grand Opera.
Broadway: Paradise Square, Driving Miss Daisy, Grey Gardens, They’re Playing Our Song, My One and Only, The Heidi Chronicles, The Will Rogers Follies, Having Our Say, Company, Ragtime, The Capeman, and The Who’s Tommy.
Off-Broadway: Sunday in the Park with George, Angels in America, Hapgood, Merrily We Roll Along.
Ballet: The Fairy’s Kiss, Pictures at an Exhibition, Anna Karenina, Firebird, Cinderella 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.