Susan Hilferty has designed over 300 productions from Broadway to the Bay area- and internationally including Japan, London, Australia, Germany and South Africa. Recent designs include Wicked (2004 Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk awards and Olivier nomination), Spring Awakening (Tony nomination) August Wilson’s Radio Golf and Jitney, Lestat (Tony nomination) Assassins, Into the Woods (Tony and Drama Desk nominations; Hewes Award), Manon at LA opera and Berlin Staatsoper, Richard Nelson’s Apple Family Plays, Frank Wildhorn's Wonderland. She works with such well-known directors as Joe Mantello, James Lapine, Michael Mayer, Walter Bobbie, Robert Falls, Tony Kushner, Robert Woodruff, JoAnne Akalaitis, the late Garland Wright, James MacDonald, Bart Sher, Mark Lamos, Frank Galati, Des McAnuff, Christopher Ashley, Emily Mann, David Jones, Marion McClinton, Neil Pepe, Rebecca Taichman, Gregory Boyd, Laurie Anderson, Doug Wright, Carole Rothman, Oskar Eustis, Garry Hynes, Richard Nelson and Athol Fugard (the South African writer with whom she works as set and costume designer and often as co-director since 1980). Hilferty also designs for opera, film, and dance, and chairs the Department of Design for Stage and Film at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Hilferty's many awards include an OBIE for Sustained Excellence in Design and the Ruth Morley Design Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women.
Awards
2012
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Signed a deed of gift of an Elphaba costume from WICKED for
permanent Popular Culture collection
TheatrePeople.com Awards 2012 London
Favorite Costume- Glinda WICKED
2011
2011 Lilly Award
Recognizing Extraordinary Contributions To The American Theatre Made By Women
Upcoming Work
2013
Three Kinds of Exile
By John Guare
Directed by Neil Pepe
Atlantic Theatre Company
Recent Work
2013
Rigoletto
By Guiseppe Verdi
Directed by Michael Mayer
The Metropolitan Opera
HD Feb 16
Hands On A Hardbody
Book by Doug Wright
Lyrics by Amanda Green
Music by Trey Anastasio
Directed by Neil Pepe
Brooks Atkinson Theatre Broadway
Jackie
By Elfriede Jelinek
Directed by Tea Alagic
The Women's Project
Neva
Directed and Written by Guillermo Calderon
The Public Theatre NY
Annie
By Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse & Martin Charnin
Directed by James Lapine
The Palace Theatre Broadway
2012
Sorry
By Richard Nelson
Directed by Richard Nelson
The Public Theatre NY
NY Times 10 Favorites of 2012
If There is I Haven’t Found It Yet
By Nick Payne
Directed by Michael Longhurst
Roundabout Theatre- Laura Pels
One Slight Hitch
By Lewis Black
Directed by Joe Grifasi
George Street Playhouse
Running On Empty
By Lewis Black
Visual Consultant
Richard Rodgers Theatre Broadway
The Nightingale
By Steven Sater & Duncan Sheik
Directed by Moises Kaufman
Costume Advisor
La Jolla Playhouse
The Train Driver
Written and Directed by Athol Fugard
Signature Theatre NY
The Broken Heart
By John Ford
Directed by Selina Cartmell
Theatre for a New Audience
Hewes Award Nominee
The Blood Knot
Written and Directed by Athol Fugard
Signature Theatre NY
Hands on a Hardbody
Book by Doug Wright
Music by Trey Anastasio
Lyrics by Amanda Green
Directed by Neil Pepe
La Jolla Playhouse