John Wulp

John Wulp (b. May 31, 1928) is an award winning American scenic designer, producer, and director. [ [http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/153416/retirement_wont_diminish_theater_directors_influence/ Retirement Won't Diminish Theater Director's Influence - Health - redOrbit ] ] Wulp won a Tony Award for Best Revival for his production of "Dracula" in 1978. He also received a Tony Award nomination and won a Drama Desk Award for his designs in the 1979 production of "Crucifer of Blood". The show also was performed at the Royal Haymarket Theatre in London and at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles for which Wulp won an Outer Critics' Circle Award, and a Los Angeles Drama Critics' Award. For Wulp's first play, "The Saintliness of Margery", he won a Rockefeller Grant, and for his direction of "Red Eye of Love", produced off Broadway, he won an OBIE Award. Wulp's other Broadway credits include "Passione", "Bosoms and Neglect", and "Gorey Stories". [ [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=22633 Internet Broadway Database: John Wulp Credits on Broadway ] ]

Wulp is the founder and was for several years the director of the "Playwrights Horizons Theater School" at New York University. He currently resides in Vinalhaven, Maine where he taught drama at the North Haven Community School for many years. Wulp retired from teaching in 2005 and is a former U.S. Marine. [ [http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/onthisisland/cast.html Independent Lens . ON THIS ISLAND . The Cast | PBS ] ]

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title=Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design
years=1978-1979
for "The Crucifer of Blood"
before= Robin Wagner
for "On the Twentieth Century"
after=John Lee Beatty
for "Talley's Folly"

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