Beowulf Boritt
Scenic Designer
31 Broadway designs include the Tony Award winning sets for New York, New York and Act One, the Tony nominated sets for The Scottsboro Boys, Therese Raquin, Potus, and Flying Over Sunset.
Also on Broadway, Harmony, The Piano Lesson, Ohio State Murders. The Old Man and the Pool, Come From Away, Freestyle Love Supreme, Be More Chill, The New One, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, Prince Of Broadway, Hand To God, Sondheim On Sondheim, …Spelling Bee , LoveMusik, Rock Of Ages, Chaplin,
On The Town (’14), Sunday In the Park… (’17), Bronx Bombers, Grace, and The Two And Only.
100 Off- Broadway shows include Shakespeare in the Park (Hamlet, Much Ado, Merry Wives, Coriolanus), The Last Five Years, Fiddler On The Roof (in Yiddish), Sleepwalk With Me, and Miss Julie.
He has designed for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, and designed around the world in England, Russia, China, Australia, and Japan.
He received a 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence.
Author: Transforming Space Over Time, about Broadway set design.
Founder of The 1/52 Project which provides grants to early career designers from historically excluded groups.
