Kevin Rigdon

Mr. Rigdon’s career in theatre began in 1974 when he joined fellow classmates Gary Sinise and Jeff Perry as the resident designer for the newly formed Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Since then Mr. Rigdon has designed over 345 productions including the Broadway productions of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (lighting), The Old Neighborhood (scenery), Buried Child (lighting), The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (lighting), The Song Of Jacob Zulu (scenery), A Streetcar Named Desire (lighting), The Grapes Of Wrath (scenery and lighting) TONY AWARD NOMINATION, Our Town (lighting), Ghetto (lighting), Speed The Plow (lighting), The Caretaker (scenery and lighting), and Glengarry Glen Ross (lighting).

In London his designs include Waiting for Godot, You Never Can Tell, and Orphans in the West End, The Grapes Of Wrath and Speed The Plow for The Royal National Theatre, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and The Man Who Came To Dinner for the Barbican Centre, and American Buffalo for Donmar Warehouse. For Sir Peter Hall and Theatre Royal Bath his designs include Measure for Measure, Habeas Corpus, Miss Julie, Much Ado About Nothing, Waiting for Godot, You Never Can Tell, Galileo’s Daughter, Don Juan, and Man and Superman, Off-Broadway Mr. Rigdon’s designs include: American Buffalo, Ricky Jay And His 52 Assistants, Oleanna, Distant Fires, Unidentified Human Remains, Orphans, Balm In Gilead, True West, Edmond, Road, and Picasso At The Lapin Agile.

As Resident Designer for Steppenwolf Theatre from 1974 to 1996 he designed over 110 productions including the critically acclaimed productions of The Glass Menagerie, The Caretaker, True West, Balm In Gilead, The Grapes Of Wrath, A Clockwork Orange, A Streetcar Named Desire, and One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

For Houston ’s Alley Theatre his designs include: The Invention Of Love, Of Mice And Men, Equus, The Greeks, Closer, Inherit The Wind, In The Jungle Of Cities, The Crucible, and Our Town.