Английская Википедия:Dane Laffrey

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Dane Laffrey is an American scenic designer best known for Broadway shows Parade (2023), Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (2022) Once on This Island (2017), Spring Awakening (2015), and Fool for Love (2015), and Off-Broadway shows The Christians (2015), Cloud Nine (2015), and Rancho Viejo (2016).

Early life and education

Laffrey was born in Michigan. He attended boarding school at Interlochen Arts Academy for his junior and senior years of high school. In 2002, he relocated to Sydney, Australia to study design at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. He graduated in 2004.

Career

Laffrey first served as scenic designer and costume designer on Darlinghurst Theatre Company's production of Some Explicit Polaroids and Griffin Theatre Company's production of The Cold Child in 2006 in Sydney, Australia. He was nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Set Design for Some Explicit Polaroids that same year. The following year, he again served in both roles for the production of The Colour of Panic at Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia and Det Apne Teater in Oslo, Norway.

In 2007, he relocated to New York City where he began designing sets, costumes, and one time-lighting for multiple Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and regional productions. Notable Off-Broadway productions include Lucas Hnath's The Christians, Dan LeFranc's Rancho Viejo, and Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine. He was nominated for four American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Awards for Off-Broadway productions between 2010 and 2017.

In 2015, he served as the set designer for Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Fool for Love at The Friedman Theatre on Broadway and as both set designer and costume designer for Deaf West Theatre's production of Spring Awakening, performed in American Sign Language, at The Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway. In 2017, he served as set designer for Circle in the Square's production of Once On This Island on Broadway. Laffrey and Michael Arden, the show's director, took a research trip he took to Haiti which completely transformed his approach to designing the set for the production. Laffrey stated:

"You cannot begin to describe the effect that trip had on me as a person but also in feeling equipped to responsibly bring this work to Broadway in 2017 in a way that was true to the piece and what it portrays ... Hurricane Maria happened in Puerto Rico and the storms that affected those tiny little islands in the Bahamas. We continued to collect and pull those images because it felt like 'Island' is ultimately dealing with, at its core, how you survive in the face of something like that and the restorative power of storytelling. You feel that connection of the human spirit threaded through all these places."

His design for Once On This Island received widespread positive critical acclaim with multiple media outlets describing it as "a fractured paradisiac vision", "lush [and] immersive", "evocative", "ambitious", and "an aesthetic experience unlike anything else on Broadway."

In 2017, Laffrey was awarded the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Set and Costume Design.

Laffrey has served as an advisor for Lincoln Center Theatre's LCT3 and as a guest designer at Yale School of Music, the Juilliard School, New York University, Carnegie Mellon University, Interlochen Arts Academy, Western Sydney University, and the National Institute of Dramatic Art.

Productions

Broadway productions

Year	Production	Position	Notes
2015	Fool for Love	Set Designer
	Spring Awakening	Set Designer, Costume Designer
2017	Once On This Island	Set Designer	Tony Nomination
2022	A Christmas Carol	Set Designer, Costume Designer	Tony Nomination
2023	Parade	Set Designer

Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions

Year	Production	Position	Notes
2007	Bad Jazz	Set Designer, Costume Designer
	Rag and Bone	Set Designer
2008	The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall	Set Designer, Costume Designer
2009	Sixty Miles to Silver Lake	Set Designer, Costume Designer	World premiere
	American Sadness	Set Designer, Costume Designer	World premiere
2010	The Boys in the Band	Lighting Designer	Nominated: Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design (2010) Nominated: American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award (2010)
	Whida Peru: Resurrection Tango	Set Designer, Costume Designer
	Five Genocides	Set Designer	World premiere
	See Rock City...	Set Designer, Costume Designer
	Tigers Be Still	Set Designer, Costume Designer	World premiere
2011	Exit	Set Designer	World premiere
	The Other Place	Costume Designer	World premiere
	Benefactors	Set Designer
	The Talls	Set Designer	World premiere
	The Patsy	Set Designer, Costume Designer	Nominated: American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award (2012)
2012	The Maids	Set Designer	Nominated: American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award (2012)
	12 Chairs	Costume Designer	World premiere
	Bullet for Adolf	Set Designer
	Disgraced	Costume Designer	Won: Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2013)
	The Other Josh Cohen	Set Designer	World premiere
2013	Gabriel's Guide to the 48 States	Illustrator	World premiere
	Bad Jews	Costume Designer	World premiere
2014	The Hunters	Set Designer, Costume Designer	World premiere
	Arlington	Set Designer	World premiere
	I Remember Mama	Set Designer	Nominated: American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award (2014)
	The Few	Set Designer	World premiere
	American Hero	Set Designer
2015	Iowa	Set Designer
	King Liz	Set Designer	World premiere
	The Christians	Set Designer
	Cloud Nine	Set Designer
2016	The Glory of the World	Set Designer	World premiere
	Indian Summer	Set Designer	World premiere
	Sell.Buy.Date.	Set Designer, Costume Designer	World premiere
	The Harvest	Set Designer	World premiere
	Homos, or Everyone in America	Set Designer	World premiere
	Rancho Viejo	Set Designer	World premiere Nominated: American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award (2017)
2017	The Moors	Set Designer
	Picnic and Come Back Little Sheba	Set Designer
	Strange Interlude	Set Designer, Costume Designer
2018	This Flat Earth	Set Designer	World premiere
	Summer and Smoke	Set Designer
	Peace for Mary Francis	Set Designer	World premiere

Regional productions

Year	Production	Position	Notes
2008	Reckless	Costume Designer	World premiere
2009	Giant	Set Designer	World premiere
2010	Hurricane	Set Designer, Costume Designer	World premiere
2012	God of Carnage	Set Designer
	Così Fan Tutte	Set Designer, Costume Designer
	Hamlet	Set Designer
	My Wonderful Day	Costume Designer
2013	Grace, or the Art of Climbing	Set Designer	World premiere
	Single Girls Guide	Costume Designer	World premiere
	Clybourne Park	Set Designer, Costume Designer
	Fly By Night	Set Designer	World premiere
	When the Lights Went Out	Set Designer	World premiere
	The Few	Set Designer	World premiere
	A Civil War Christmas	Set Designer, Costume Designer
2014	The Legend of Georgia McBride	Costume Designer	World premiere
	The Christians	Set Designer	World premiere
	Brownsville Song	Set Designer	World premiere
	Fool for Love	Set Designer
	The Wolfe Twins	Set Designer, Costume Designer	World premiere
	Uncle Vanya	Set Designer
	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Set Designer
	The Last Five Years	Set Designer
	The Theory of Relativity	Set Designer, Costume Designer	World premiere
2015	Spring Awakening	Set Designer, Costume Designer	Nominated: Ovation Award for Best Scenic Design (Large Theatre) (2015)
	Be More Chill	Set Designer	World premiere
	Dot	Set Designer	World premiere
	The Glory of the World	Set Designer	World premiere
	Legacy	Set Designer	World premiere
	The Christians	Set Designer
2016	4000 Miles	Set Designer, Costume Designer
	Swimmers	Set Designer, Costume Designer	World premiere
	Future Thinking	Set Designer	World premiere
	I Remember Mama	Set Designer
	I Was Most Alive with You	Set Designer, Costume Designer	World premiere
	The Chinese Room	Set Designer	World premiere
	My Fair Lady	Set Designer, Co-Costume Designer
	Collective Rage...	Set Designer	World premiere
	Romeo and Juliet	Set Designer
	Merrily We Roll Along	Set Designer, Costume Designer
2017	We're Gonna Be Okay	Set Designer	World premiere
	Recent Alien Abductions in Puerto Rico	Set Designer
	All the Roads Home	Set Designer	World premiere
	The Roommate	Set Designer
	Benny and Joon	Set Designer, Costume Designer	World premiere
2018	Zoey's Perfect Wedding	Set Designer	World premiere
	Sell.Buy.Date.	Set Designer, Costume Designer
	Dave	Set Designer	World premiere

International productions

Year	Production	Position	Notes
2006	Some Explicit Polaroids	Set Designer, Costume Designer	Sydney, Australia Nominated: Sydney Theatre Award for Best Set Design (2006)
	The Cold Child	Set Designer, Costume Designer	Sydney, Australia
2007	The Colour of Panic	Set Designer, Costume Designer	World premiere Sydney, Australia and Oslo, Norway
2009	The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone	Set Designer	World premiere Tokyo, Japan and Osaka, Japan

Television productions

Year	Production	Position	Notes
2013-14	The Roast	Set Designer	262 episodes

Awards and nominations

In 2023, Laffrey was nominated for a Tony Awards for his scenic design for Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

In 2018, Laffrey was nominated for Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his scenic design for Once On This Island

In 2017, Laffrey was awarded the Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Set and Costume Design.

In 2006, he was nominated for a Sydney Theatre Award for Best Set Design for Some Explicit Polaroids (2006). In 2010, he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for The Boys in the Band (2010). In 2015, he was nominated for an Ovation Award for Best Scenic Design (Large Theatre) for Spring Awakening. He also has received multiple nominations for the American Theatre Wing Hewes Design Award, including for The Boys in the Band (2010), The Patsy (2012), The Maids (2012), I Remember Mama (2014), and Rancho Viejo (2017).

External links

• Dane Laffrey Official Site