Peter Nigrini

Background

About Peter Nigrini

Peter Nigrini has designed on Broadway for Beetlejuice, Ain’t Too Proud, The SpongeBob Musical, Dear Evan Hansen, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Amlié, An Act of God, The Heidi Chronicles, The Best Man, Fela, 9 to 5 and Say Goodnight Gracie. Other designs include: Grounded (The Public Theater), Here Lies Love (The Public Theater / Royal National Theatre-London), Wakey, Wakey (Signature Theater), Real Enemies (BAM), Don Giovanni and Lucia di Lammermoor (Santa Fe Opera), Fetch Clay, Make Man (New York Theater Workshop; McCarter Theatre Center), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity,(2nd Stage Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Dallas Theatre Center), Notes from Underground (Yale Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Theater for a New Audience), Grace Jones’ – Hurricane Tour (Hollywood Bowl, Hammerstein Ballroom), Rent (New World Stages), Elsewhere (BAM), Haroun and the Sea of Stories (New York City Opera), Blind Date (Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance) and The Orphan of Zhao (Lincoln Center Festival). Peter is a founding member of the Obie award-winning theater company, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, for which he has designed scenery, costumes, lighting and projection for No Dice (Soho Rep), Romeo and Juliet (Salzburger Festspiele) and Life and Times (Burgtheater, Vienna) among others. Awards include the first ever Drama Desk for Outstanding Projection Design and 2013 Hewes Design Award for Here Lies Love, and a Special Lortel Award for Grounded.