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 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