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, 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 a 2000 OBIE for Sustained Excellence in Design.
Recent Work
Sondheim By Sondheim
Written and directed by James Lapine Music by Stephen Sondheim
Roundabout Theatre, NY Previews start 2 March 2010
The Book Of Grace by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by James MacDonald
NY Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre NY Previews begin 4 March 2010
Alley Theatre, Dallas, Texas, January 15- Mar 2010
4Play by the Flying Karamazov Brothers
Minetta Lane Theatre, NY 8 February- 8 March 2010
The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Directed by Charlie Newell
Court Theatre, Chicago January 3, 2010-Feb 14 2010
Wonderland by Frank Wildhorn and Jack Murphy
Directed by Gregory Boyd
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, November 4, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Alley Theatre, Dallas, Texas, January 15, 2010- Feb 15, 2010
The Creditors by August Strindberg
Adapted and Directed by Doug Wright
La Jolla Playhouse, 29 September - October 25, 2009
The Retributionists by Daniel Goldfarb
Directed by Leigh Silverman
Playwrights Horizons, August 21 - September 27, 2009
Our House by Theresa Rebeck
Directed by Michael Mayer
Playwrights Horizons, May 15 - June 21, 2009
Giant by Sybille Pearson
Based on Novel by Edna Ferber
Music and Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa
Directed by Jonathan Butterell
Signature Theatre, April 28 - May 31, 2009