A. Jeffrey SchoenbergA Jeffrey Schoenberg (Costume Design) is a regular fixture at The Colony having designed productions including The Immigrant, Almost, Maine, "Master Harold" ...and the boys, Trying, Rounding Third, Stage Struck, I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda, Billy Bishop Goes to War, The Grand Tour, Sherlock's Last Case, Climbing Everest, The Ladies of the Camellias (Ovation Award nomination), The Drawer Boy, Clutter, The True Story of the Collyer Brothers Who Never Threw Anything Out. The Nerd, Fuddy Meers, A Shayna Maidel, The Living (L.A. Weekly Award nomination), the Colony's 2000 revival of Dandelion Wine, The Man Who Came To Dinner, The Clearing, Side Show (Ovation Award, Garland Award, and L.A. Drama Critics' Circle Award nomination), The Laramie Project (both at the Colony and when it was remounted at the Laguna Playhouse) and the world premiere of Bea[u]tiful in the Extreme. He co-designed, with Shon LeBlanc, the Ovation Award-winning Colony production of City of Angels. He has designed several Open Fist Theater productions including Threepenny Opera, The Chekhov Machine, The Devils (Ovation Award), and The Time of Your Life. He is the costume designer of the productions of Nighthawks at the Kirk Douglas Theater, Pirates of Penzance and Elizabeth Rex (Ovation Award) for NoHo Arts Center, Hercules for Greenway Arts Alliance, King Lear at the Met Theater, Guys and Dolls for Interact Theatre Company, Empire at the Hudson, and Anyone Can Whistle at the Matrix Theater (Garland Award), as well as being the resident designer for Shakespeare at Play. He designed the world premiere of Phillip Littell's The Wandering Whore, and the West Coast premieres of The American Plan at the Tiffany, and The Human Comedy at West Coast Ensemble. His designs have also been seen at Actors' Co-Op (She Loves Me, The Elephant Man), Excalibur Theatre (The Rivals, The Taming of The Shrew), Globe Playhouse (Richard III, Macbeth), Nevada Shakespeare in the Park (Romeo and Juliet, Merry Wives of Winsor), and Gloria Newman Dance Theater. Other works include Tonight at 8:30 for Antaeus; 1776 for Actors Co-Op; Elizabeth Rex (Ovation winner) at NoHo Arts Center; Travesties, The Devils, and Macbeth for Open Fist; and Therese Raquin for the Ensemble Theatre in Santa Barbara. He recently directed Richard III for Shakespeare at Play, with whom he is resident costume designer. April, 2008 |
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