Robin Wagner (designer)

Robin Wagner (designer)

Robin Wagner is an American award winning scenic designer.

He was born in San Francisco and was raised in California. He attended art school in San Francisco and started work in theatres in that city. [Rothstein, Mervyn. [http://www.playbill.com/features/article/106016.html "A Life in the Theatre: Robin Wagner"] playbill.com, February 23, 2007]

Wagner has been working as a set designer for Broadway shows since 1961 and has designed sets for more than fifty Broadway productions including: "The Producers", "Kiss Me, Kate", "", "Victor/Victoria", "Jelly's Last Jam", "City of Angels", "Dreamgirls", "On the Twentieth Century", "Mack and Mabel", "Jesus Christ Superstar", and "Lenny". Wagner has also frequently designed for productions in London's West End including "Crazy For You", "Chess", "42nd Street", "A Chorus Line", "Promises, Promises", and "Hair".

Wagner's other theatrical work ranges from Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions to Ballet, rock and roll and grand opera, including designing sets for the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, Hamburg State Opera, Royal Swedish Opera, Royal Opera at Covent Garden and the New York City Ballet. He is the recipient of the Antoinette Perry Tony Award for his scenic designs of "The Producers", "On the Twentieth Century" and "City of Angels" and a nominee for many others. Other honors include six Drama Desk Awards, an Outer Critics' Circle Award, Lumen and Maharam Awards. He has served on the Theatre Advisory Committee for the NY International Festival of the Arts, as a Trustee of the New York Shakespeare Festival, and he has taught in the graduate theatre arts program at Columbia University. Wagner is also Senior Vice-President of The Design Edge, a commercial design organisation specialising in corporate exhibitions. [ [http://www.nightfever.co.uk/robinwagner.htm Robin Wagner - Scenic Designer ] ]

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title=Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design
years=1977-1978
for "On the Twentieth Century"
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for "The Cherry Orchard"
after=John Wulp
for "The Crucifer of Blood"


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