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BEOWULF BORITT's recent Broadway designs include Kander & Ebb's The Scottsboro Boys for director/choreographer Susan Stroman, and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sondheim on Sondheim directed by Mr. Lapine, for whom he also designed the set for The Twenty-Fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. He designed Alfred Uhry's LoveMusik on Broadway for Harold Prince, as well as Mr. Prince's production of Paradise Found off-West End in London. He also designed the current Broadway hit, Rock of Ages. He designed Lynne Taylor Corbett's 2011 production of the Brecht/Weill Seven Deadly Sins for the New York City Ballet. Off-Broadway, Beowulf has designed over fifty productions, including Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years for director Daisy Prince, Joe DiPietro and David Bryan's The Toxic Avenger for director John Rando, and Strindberg's Miss Julie for director Scott Schwartz. He has designed scenery for The Roundabout Theatre Company, The Public Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, The Vineyard Theatre, Manhattan Class Company, The Pearl Theatre, and The New Group. He has designed for The Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, The Old Globe in San Diego, Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, The Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, The Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in Boston, The Dallas Theatre Center, and many others. He has twice designed the scenery for The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Beowulf has been honored with an Audelco award, a Barrymore award, a Tony nomination, three Drama Desk nominations, two Lucille Lortel nominations and four Henry Hewes nominations for his designs. In 2007, he was honored with an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence in Set Design.
Bio as of June, 2011.
American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include:
SpringboardNYC Cues from Tony Nominees (video)
What has been the most important part of your training? - Watch Now.
SpringboardNYC Mentor - 2006
Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)
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