susan_headshot.jpgSusan 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 Conversations in Tusculum, 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, Rebecca Taichman, 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.

Portrait Gallery

 

Recent Work

2011 Ruth Morley Design Award recipient

 

2011 Lilly Award recipient


Taylor Swift SPEAK NOW World Tour 2011-12


On Stage/In Stages: The Art of Costume Painting

Wicked "Monkey" design featured in this group show from Parsons-Meares

September 1-30 2011 The Cornelia Street Cafe

 

The Blood Knot

Written and Directed by Athol Fugard

Signature Theatre, NY   Jan 2012

 

The Road to Mecca

Written by Athol Fugard

Directed by Gordon Edelstein

Roundabout Theatre, NY   Jan 2012

 

The Broken Heart

Written by John Ford

Directed by Selina Cartmell

Theatre For A New Audience, NY   Jan 2012

 

Second Chance

Music Book and Lyrics by Ted Shen

Directed by Jonathan Butterell

Signature Theatre VA  Nov 2011

 

Elective Affinities

Written by David Adjmi

Directed by Sarah Benson

SoHo Rep, NY   Nov 2011

 

Sweet and Sad 

Set and Costume designer

Written and Directed by Richard Nelson

The Public Theatre, NY,   2011

 

The Illusion by Tony Kushner

Directed by Michael Mayer

Signature Theatre Theater NY  2011

 

Manon

Valencia, Spain

Orquestra de la Generalitat Valenciana, 2011


Wonderland by Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy

Directed by Gregory Boyd 

Marquis Theatre NY opens 17 April 2011

Straz Center, Tampa Florida 2011


The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus 

FULLY CHARGED

2011-2013

 

Three Hotels by Jon Robin Baitz

Directed by Robert Falls

Williamstown Theatre Festival   July 2011

 

A Slight Hitch by Lewis Black

Directed by Joe Grifasi

Williamstown Theatre Festival   July 2011

 

4Play by the Flying Karamazov Brothers

Vaudeville Theatre, London     2011

 

Fidelity FutureStage Moderator/ Speaker 

New York, NY  2011

 

That Hopey Changey Thing 

Written and Directed by Richard Nelson

The Public Theatre, NY,  November 2010

 

Compulsion by Rinne Groff

Directed by Oskar Eustis

Public Theater NY  2011

Berkeley Repertory Theatre Sept  2010

 

Train Driver by Athol Fugard

Directed by Gordon Edelstein

Long Wharf Theatre, CT, 2010

 

In The Wake by Lisa Kron

Directed by Leigh Silverman

The Public Theatre, NY,  2010

 

Sondheim On Sondheim

Written and directed by James Lapine Music by Stephen Sondheim

Roundabout Theatre, NY    2010

 

The Book Of Grace  by Suzan-Lori Parks

Directed by James MacDonald

NY Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre NY  2010 

 

 4Play by the Flying Karamazov Brothers

Minetta Lane Theatre, NY    2010-11

 

Teen Vogue Moderator/ Speaker 

New York, NY  2010

 

The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Directed by Charlie Newell

Court Theatre, Chicago  2010


Wonderland by Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy

Directed by Gregory Boyd 

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center 2010

Alley Theatre,  Dallas, Texas   2010

 

The Creditors by August Strindberg

Adapted and Directed by Doug Wright

La Jolla Playhouse  2009

 

The Retributionists by Daniel Goldfarb

Directed by Leigh Silverman

Playwrights Horizons  2009

 

Our House by Theresa Rebeck

Directed by Michael Mayer

Playwrights Horizons 2009

 

Giant by Sybille Pearson

Based on Novel by Edna Ferber

Music and Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa

Book by Sybil Pearson

Directed by Jonathan Butterell

Signature Theatre 2009