Jay Duckworth is the founder of the Prop Summit a yearly meeting of Broadway, off - Broadway, LORT theaters and Academic prop professionals and student . He has been the Keynote Speaker for The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival as a guest of United States Institute of Theater Technology 2011 & 2015. Headed Master classes in Properties at numerous Universities. The roll call of shows he has create original work for starts in remastered Classic Greek Theater, re-imagined Shakespeare plays and musicals including Hamilton and stark Brechtian shows and continues with contemporary and ink wet works at his ... read more
MTC: The Portuguese Kid; The Country House; The Assembled Parties; Accent On Youth; Come Back, Little Sheba; Shining City; Collected Stories; The American Pilot; Moonlight and Magnolias. Broadway: Harvey, A Life in the Theatre, The Lieutenant of Inishmore. Other recent designs include Noura (STC); The Total Bent (The Public); Constellations (Seattle Rep). Awards: BACC, Lortel, AUDELCO Viv. TV and other: HBO, Nickelodeon, Discovery, History Channel, Bravo, A&E, The Learning Channel and Fisher-Price toys. ... read more
Broadway: War Paint, Groundhog Day, Fool for Love, Act One, Venus in Fur, God of Carnage, Long Day's Journey Into Night (with Redgrave and Hoffman), Exit the King, numerous others. Off-Broadway: Public, LCT3, Signature, Playwrights Horizons, others. Regional/international: Goodman, Westport, Two River Theater, Williamstown, others. Royal National, Royal Shakespeare Company. Film/TV: numerous. Faculty: Juilliard. ... read more
Broadway: Memphis, 33 Variations, Guys and Dolls, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, The Color Purple, Martin Short: Fame . . .,Good Vibrations, The Apple Tree, A Raisin in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lieutenant of Inishmoor, Radio Golf, Sight Unseen, Cymbeline, Henry IV, The Rivals, Xanadu, and Superior Donuts. Jersey Boys U.S. tour, Chicago, Las Vegas Toronto, London, and Melbourne. The Color Purple national tour, Xanadu national tour, and In The Heights national tour. Many Off-Broadway and regional credits. ... read more
Derek McLane received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award Honour for his work on Moulin Rouge! The Musical. He has designed over 350 productions for Broadway, Off-Broadway, internationally and for TV. His over 40 credits include Burn This, The Parisian Woman, Anything Goes, The Price, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Ragtime, I Am My Own Wife and 33 Variations (Tony Award). He has designed the Academy Awards for six years (Emmy Award) and has designed four live musicals for NBC, including “Hairspray” (Emmy Award). ... read more
Recent Off-Broadway: Regrets, Maple and Vine, A Small Fire, Keep Your Pantheon and School, Home, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Vigil, Almost an Evening, The Piano Teacher, Fever Chart, Scarcity, Celebration and The Room. Recent regional: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Guthrie,) The Crucible (Hartford Stage,) and Three Sisters and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Yale Rep.) Suddenly Last Summer (Westport.) Associate Designer for Spamalot, Art and Closer. Faculty: Yale School of Drama. ... read more
Roundabout: The Overwhelming, Suddenly Last Summer, Betrayal. Broadway: Misery, Romeo and Juliet, Dead Accounts, Grace, Godspell, The Normal Heart, reasons to be pretty, Butley, Dinner at Eight, Betrayal, The Real Thing. Off-Broadway: The Public, LCT, MTC, Atlantic, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Vineyard, NY Theatre Workshop, Theatre for a New Audience. Disney’s Frozen at DCA. Awards: 2016 Lucille Lortel Award (Guards at the Taj), 2012 Lucille Lortel Award (Through a Glass Darkly), 2011 Drama Desk nomination (A Small Fire), 2005 Lucille Lortel Award (Rodney’s Wife). ... read more
