Robin Wagner (designer)
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Robin Wagner is an American award winning scenic designer. Wagner has been working as a set designer for Broadway shows since 1961 and has designed sets for more than fifty Broadway productions including: The Producers, Kiss Me, Kate, Big, Victor / Victoria, Jelly's Last Jam, City of Angels, Dreamgirls, On the Twentieth Century, Mack and Mabel, Jesus Christ Superstar , and Lenny. Wagner has also frequently designed for productions in London's West End including Crazy For You, Chess, 42nd Street, A Chorus Line, Promises Promises, and Hair.
Wagner's other theatrical work ranges from Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions to Ballet, rock and roll and grand opera, including designing sets for the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, Royal Opera at Covent Garden and the New York City Ballet. He is the recipient of the Antoinette Perry Tony Award for his scenic designs of The Producers, On the Twentieth Century and City of Angels and a nominee for many others. Other honours include six Drama Desk Awards , an Outer Critics' Circle Award, Lumen and Maharam Awards. He has served on the Theatre Advisory Committee for the NY International Festival of the Arts, as a Trustee of the New York Shakespeare Festival, and he has taught in the graduate theatre arts program at Columbia University. Wagner is also Senior Vice-President of The Design Edge, a commercial design organisation specialising in corporate exhibitions.[1]
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Robin Wagner at the Internet Broadway Database
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| Preceded by Santo Loquasto for The Cherry Orchard |
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design 1977-1978 for On the Twentieth Century |
Succeeded by John Wulp for The Crucifer of Blood |
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