Broadway: A Gentlemen's Guide to Love and Murder (Tony Award); Velocity of Autumn. Over 200 regional and international design credits in theatre, dance, and opera. Recipient of the Craig Noel Award, Connecticut Critic Circle Award, Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, Ruth Morely Design Award. Nominations from Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Henry Hewes, Elliot Norton, Bay Area, Robby, IRNE, and Jeff awards. MFA, Yale School of Drama. www.lindacho.com ... read more
THE PUBLIC is theater of, by, and for all people. Artist-driven, radically inclusive, and fundamentally democratic, The Public continues the work of its visionary founder Joe Papp as a civic institution engaging, both on-stage and off, with some of the most important ideas and social issues of today. Conceived over 60 years ago as one of the nation's first nonprofit theaters, The Public has long operated on the principles that theater is an essential cultural force and that art and culture belong to everyone. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, The Public's wide ... read more
Around 2000 he wrote Princess Turandot, inspired by Carlo Gozzi's play written in 1762 (upon which Puccini's opera Turandot was based). Tresnjak's play was performed by the Blue Light Theater Company in New York City in December 2000.
He served as resident artistic director at Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California, in 2009, and directed for eight summers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts.
He was the artistic director at Hartford Stage in Hartford, Connecticut from the 2011–2012 season through the 2018–2019 season, where he commissioned The Man in the Case with Mikhail Baryshnikov and directed Kevin Bacon in Rear ... read more
Robert Wierzel is a Tony-nominated lighting designer who has worked on numerous productions on Broadway and beyond. He was born in 1956 in NYC and began his career in lighting design in the early 1980s. Wierzel's Broadway credits include the Tony-nominated production of "Fela!," "Lady Day At Emmerson's Bar & Grill," starring Audra McDonald, and "David Copperfield: Dreams and Nightmares." In addition to his work on Broadway, Wierzel has designed lighting for numerous off-Broadway productions, including "Indian Ink," a play by Tom Stoppard produced by the Roundabout. Other productions include The New York Philharmonic, BAM, Mostly Mozart, and The Park ... read more
