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Media
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Exhibitions
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Susan Hilferty
Collaborations:
Costume Designer
2025
: "Uncle Vanya (Berkeley Rep)"
2025
: "The Glass Menagerie"
2025
: "Parade (National Tour)"
2025
: "Uncle Vanya (STC)"
2024
: "Swept Away (Broadway)"
2024
: "Freedom...In Progress"
2024
: "Aida"
2023
: "Swept Away (Arena Stage)"
2023
: "Little Comedies"
2023
: "Funny Girl (National Tour)"
2023
: "Parade (Broadway)"
2023
: "Waiting for Godot"
2022
: "Parade (NYCC)"
2022
: "Funny Girl (Broadway)"
2022
: "Swept Away (Berkeley Rep)"
2021
: "What Happened?: The Michaels Abroad"
2020
: "Hamlet (St. Ann's Warehouse)"
2019
: "A Bright Room Called Day"
2019
: "The Michaels"
2019
: "Blood Wedding"
2019
: "The Oresteia"
2019
: "Boesman and Lena (Signature Theatre)"
2018
: "La Traviata"
2018
: "Hamlet (Gate Theatre)"
2018
: "Uncle Vanya (Hunter College)"
2018
: "Turn Me Loose (Arena Stage)"
2018
: "Fire in Dreamland"
2018
: "Uncle Vanya (Old Globe)"
2018
: "An Ordinary Muslim"
2017
: "Illyria"
2017
: "Turn Me Loose (Wallis Annenberg Center)"
2017
: "How to Transcend a Happy Marriage"
2017
: "Present Laughter (Broadway)"
2017
: "Salomé (National Theatre)"
2016
: "The Gabriels 3 (Women of a Certain Age)"
2016
: "The Gabriels 2 (What Did You Expect?)"
2016
: "The Gabriels 1 (Hungry)"
2016
: "Chita: Nowadays"
2016
: "Lewis Black: Black to the Future"
2016
: "Buried Child (Trafalgar Studios)"
2016
: ""Master Harold"... and the boys"
2016
: "Wicked, UK/International Tour"
2016
: "Wicked, Brazil"
2016
: "Love, Love, Love"
2016
: "The Spoils (Trafalgar Studios)"
2016
: "Turn Me Loose (Westside Theatre)"
2016
: "The Father"
2016
: "Familiar"
2016
: "Buried Child (New Group)"
2015
: "The Spoils (New Group)"
2015
: "The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek"
2015
: "Mercury Fur"
2015
: "Baby Doll"
2015
: "Salomé"
2014
: "Regular Singing"
2014
: "King Lear (TFANA)"
2014
: "A Second Chance (Public Theater)"
2014
: "Stage Kiss"
2014
: "The Shadow of the Hummingbird"
2014
: "The Apple Family Plays: Scenes From American Life (PBS)"
2014
: "Posterity"
2014
: "King Lear (Shakespeare in the Park)"
2014
: "Sticks and Bones"
2013-2015
: "Wicked, Australasian National Tour"
2013
: "Neva"
2013
: "Sweet and Sad (2013 Public Theater Rep Run)"
2013
: "Sorry (2013 Public Theater Rep Run)"
2013
: "That Hopey Changey Thing (2013 Public Theater Rep Run)"
2013
: "The Apple Family Plays: Scenes From American Life"
2013
: "3 Kinds of Exile"
2013-2014
: "Wicked, Korea"
2013-2015
: "Wicked, UK/IRE National Tour"
2013-2015
: "Wicked, Mexico City"
2013
: "Rigoletto"
2013
: "Jackie"
2013
: "Chita: A Legendary Celebration"
2012
: "Lewis Black: Running On Empty"
2012
: "A Month in the Country"
2012
: "The Broken Heart"
2012
: "Sorry"
2012
: "The Train Driver (Signature)"
2012
: "Blood Knot (Signature)"
2012
: "Annie"
2012
: "The Nightingale"
2012
: "Hands on a Hardbody (La Jolla Playhouse)"
2012
: "One Slight Hitch (George St.)"
2012
: "One Slight Hitch (ACT)"
2012
: "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet"
2011-2013
: "Wicked, Netherlands"
2011-2013
: "Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus - “Fully Charged”"
2011
: "Three Hotels"
2011
: "One Slight Hitch (WTF)"
2011
: "Sweet and Sad"
2011
: "Elective Affinities"
2011
: "A Second Chance (Signature, VA)"
2011
: "The Illusion (Signature)"
2011
: "The Road to Mecca (Broadway)"
2011-2012
: "Wicked, Asian National Tour"
2011-2012
: "Taylor Swift “Speak Now” World Tour"
2011
: "Wonderland (Broadway)"
2010
: "The Book of Grace"
2010
: "That Hopey Changey Thing"
2010
: "In The Wake"
2010
: "Sondheim on Sondheim"
2010
: "4Play"
2010
: "The Train Driver (Long Wharf)"
2010
: "The Year of Magical Thinking"
2010
: "Compulsion (Berkeley Rep)"
2010
: "Wonderland (Alley)"
2010
: "Manon (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia)"
2010
: "Compulsion (Public Theater)"
2009
: "Wonderland (Straz Performing Arts Center)"
2009
: "Spring Awakening (West End)"
2009
: "Mourning Becomes Electra"
2009
: "GIANT"
2009
: "Our House"
2009
: "Spring Awakening (Lyric Hammersmith)"
2009
: "Creditors"
2009
: "Wicked, 2nd North American National Tour"
2009
: "The Retributionists"
2008
: "The Evildoers"
2008
: "The Visit (Signature)"
2008
: "The Marriage of Bette and Boo"
2008
: "Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?"
2008
: "Conversations in Tusculum"
2008-2009
: "Wicked, Australia"
2007
: "Frank's Home (Playwrights Horizons)"
2007-2009
: "Wicked, Japan"
2007
: "Radio Golf (McCarter)"
2007
: "Radio Golf (Goodman)"
2007
: "Radio Golf (Broadway)"
2006
: "Radio Golf (Huntington)"
2006
: "A Skull in Connemara (Roundabout)"
2006
: "Radio Golf (Seattle Rep)"
2006
: "Spring Awakening (Atlantic Theater Co.)"
2006
: "Wicked, West End"
2006
: "Frank’s Home (Goodman)"
2006
: "Lestat (Broadway)"
2006-2007
: "Manon (LA Opera/Berlin Staatsoper)"
2006
: "Spring Awakening (Broadway)"
2005
: "Lestat (San Francisco)"
2005-2009
: "Wicked, Chicago"
2005
: "Radio Golf (Yale Rep)"
2005
: "The House of Bernarda Alba (Workshop)"
2005
: "Fran's Bed (Playwrights Horizons)"
2005
: "Radio Golf (Mark Taper Forum)"
2005-2015
: "Wicked, 1st North American National Tour"
2004
: "R shomon"
2004
: "Rodney’s Wife (WTF)"
2004
: "The Good Body (Seattle Rep)"
2004
: "Rodney's Wife (Playwrights Horizons)"
2004
: "dirty BLONDE (Pasadena Playhouse)"
2004
: "dirty BLONDE (London)"
2004
: "The Good Body (Broadway)"
2004
: "The Good Body (ACT)"
2004
: "Love Stories"
2004
: "Assassins (Broadway)"
2003
: "The General From America (TFANA)"
2003
: "My Life With Albertine"
2003
: "Fran's Bed (Long Wharf)"
2003
: "Franny's Way (Geffen)"
2003
: "Songs and Stories From Moby Dick (London)"
2003
: "Wicked, San Francisco"
2003
: "Wicked, Broadway"
2002
: "Without Walls"
2002
: "Necessary Targets (Off-Broadway)"
2002
: "Sorrows and Rejoicings (2nd Stage)"
2002
: "Jitney (Seattle Rep.)"
2002
: "Franny's Way (Playwrights Horizons)"
2002
: "Left"
2002
: "Sorrows and Rejoicings (Mark Taper Forum)"
2002
: "Helen"
2002
: "Into the Woods"
2001
: "The Clearing (City Theatre)"
2001
: "Sorrows and Rejoicings (London)"
2001
: "Necessary Targets (Hartford)"
2001
: "dirty BLONDE (National Tour)"
2001
: "Crimes of the Heart"
2001
: "Jitney (National Theatre)"
2001
: "Sorrows & Rejoicings (McCarter)"
2001
: "Oedipus"
2001
: "The Visit (Goodman)"
2001
: "In the Penal Colony (CSC)"
2001
: "Sorrows & Rejoicings (Cape Town)"
2001
: "Madame Melville"
2001
: "L'Universe (Arizona Theatre Company)"
2001
: "Goodnight Children Everywhere (ACT)"
2001
: "The General From America (Alley)"
2000
: "L'Universe (ACT/Seattle)"
2000
: "The Captain’s Tiger (Spoleto Festival)"
2000
: "Jitney (2nd Stage)"
2000
: "dirty BLONDE (Broadway)"
2000
: "The Dutchman"
2000
: "Rough Crossing"
2000
: "In the Penal Colony (Court Theatre, Chicago)"
2000
: "A Skull in Connemara (ACT)"
2000
: "In the Penal Colony (ACT/Seattle)"
2000
: "Jitney (Mark Taper Forum)"
1999
: "Tartuffe (Acting Co. Tour)"
1999
: "Chesapeake (2nd Stage)"
1999
: "Goodnight Children Everywhere (Playwrights Horizons)"
1999
: "Chesapeake (NY Stage & Film)"
1999
: "The Captain's Tiger (MTC)"
1999
: "The Clearing (Hartford)"
1999
: "The Clearing (Second Stage)"
1999
: "Griller"
1999
: "Songs and Stories From Moby Dick (BAM)"
1999
: "dirty BLONDE (NYTW)"
1999
: "The Clearing (Blue Light Theatre Company)"
1998
: "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told"
1998
: "The Captain’s Tiger (McCarter)"
1998
: "Cymbeline (McCarter)"
1998
: "The Captain’s Tiger (La Jolla)"
1998
: "Happy Days"
1998
: "Tartuffe (Juilliard)"
1997
: "La Finta Giardiniera (Washington National Opera)"
1997
: "The Tempest (STC)"
1997
: "The Devils"
1997
: "Betrayal"
1997
: "The Captain’s Tiger (South Africa)"
1997
: "Ghosts"
1997
: "Cymbeline (Hartford)"
1997
: "Valley Song (Washington D.C.)"
1997
: "The House of Martin Guerre (Toronto)"
1997
: "Singer’s Boy"
1996
: "Valley Song (Toronto)"
1996
: "Valley Song (Klein Karoo Festival)"
1996
: "Valley Song (Perth)"
1996
: "Valley Song (Sydney)"
1996
: "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (National Tour)"
1996
: "The Night of the Iguana (Broadway)"
1996
: "Sharps, Flats and Accidentals"
1996
: "Arts and Leisure"
1996
: "Valley Song (MTC)"
1996
: "Babes in Arms"
1996
: "The House of Martin Guerre (Goodman)"
1996
: "La Finta Giardiniera (Glimmerglass)"
1996
: "Molly Sweeney"
1996
: "The Woman Warrior (Center Theatre Group)"
1996
: "Sex and Longing"
1996
: "A Dream Play"
1995
: "Valley Song (McCarter)"
1995
: "Valley Song (Market Theater)"
1995
: "Arms and The Man"
1995
: "King Lear (Guthrie)"
1995
: "K: Impressions of The Trial by Franz Kafka"
1995
: "Iphegenia and Other Daughters"
1995
: "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Broadway)"
1994
: "Hello and Goodbye"
1994
: "How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (La Jolla)"
1994
: "The Woman Warrior (Huntington)"
1994
: "Home"
1994
: "As You Like It"
1994
: "The Night of the Iguana (Goodman)"
1994
: "Doo Dah Day"
1994
: "M R I"
1994
: "A Woman of No Importance"
1993
: "One Shoe Off"
1993
: "Playland (MTC)"
1993
: "Too Clever By Half"
1993
: "Naga Mandala"
1993
: "Cry, The Beloved Country"
1992
: "Playland (Market Theater)"
1992
: "Boesman and Lena (MTC)"
1992
: "Le Petomane"
1992
: "The Good Hope"
1992
: "The Seagull"
1992
: "Electra"
1992
: "Agamemnon"
1992
: "Pericles, Prince of Tyre"
1992
: "The Convict’s Return"
1992
: "Playland (La Jolla)"
1992
: "Playland (Alliance Theater)"
1992
: "Iphegenia At Aulis"
1991
: "Elmer Gantry"
1991
: "Fortinbras"
1991
: "The Good Person of Setzuan"
1991
: "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
1991
: "The Illusion (Berkeley Rep)"
1991
: "Dream of a Common Language"
1991
: "A Lesson From Aloes (La Jolla)"
1991
: "Fantasio"
1990
: "My Children! My Africa! (Los Angeles)"
1990
: "Chess (National Tour)"
1990
: "Baal"
1990
: "What a Man Weighs"
1990
: "My Children! My Africa! (La Jolla)"
1990
: "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"
1990
: "Medea"
1990
: "Born in the RSA (Berkeley Rep)"
1990
: "Born in the RSA (ACT)"
1989
: "Approaching Zanzibar"
1989
: "Born in the RSA (Northlight Theatre)"
1989
: "My Children! My Africa! (NYTW)"
1989
: "My Children! My Africa! (Market Theatre)"
1989
: "Ubu"
1989
: "Down the Road"
1989
: "The Skin of Our Teeth"
1989
: "The Misanthrope (Goodman)"
1989
: "The Road to Mecca (Kennedy Center)"
1989
: "Nothing Sacred"
1989
: "The Misanthrope (La Jolla)"
1988
: "Two Rooms"
1988
: "The Road to Mecca (Off-Broadway)"
1988
: "Zero Positive"
1988
: "A Place With the Pigs (Market Theater)"
1988
: "A Place with the Pigs (National Theatre)"
1988
: "80 Days"
1988
: "The Road to Mecca (Berkeley Rep)"
1988
: "Speeds"
1987
: "Ron Giovanni"
1987
: "The Matchmaker"
1987
: "A Place with the Pigs (Yale Rep)"
1987
: "The Comedy of Errors (PBS Great Performances)"
1987
: "Coastal Disturbances (Broadway)"
1987
: "Uncle Vanya (Center Stage)"
1987
: "The Tempest (La Jolla)"
1986
: "Cheapside"
1983
: "The Comedy of Errors (Goodman)"
1976
: "John"
1976
: "Three Men on a Horse"
Set Designer
2020
: "Concerning the Life of Babyboy Kleintjies"
2020
: "Hamlet (St. Ann's Warehouse)"
2019
: "Blood Wedding"
2019
: "The Oresteia"
2019
: "Boesman and Lena (Signature Theatre)"
2018
: "Hamlet (Gate Theatre)"
2018
: "Fire in Dreamland"
2017
: "Illyria"
2017
: "Salomé (National Theatre)"
2016
: "The Gabriels 3 (Women of a Certain Age)"
2016
: "The Gabriels 2 (What Did You Expect?)"
2016
: "The Gabriels 1 (Hungry)"
2015
: "The Apple Family Plays: Scenes From American Life (European Tour)"
2015
: "Salomé"
2014
: "Regular Singing"
2014
: "The Apple Family Plays: Scenes From American Life (PBS)"
2013
: "Sweet and Sad (2013 Public Theater Rep Run)"
2013
: "Sorry (2013 Public Theater Rep Run)"
2013
: "That Hopey Changey Thing (2013 Public Theater Rep Run)"
2013
: "The Apple Family Plays: Scenes From American Life"
2012
: "Sorry"
2011
: "Sweet and Sad"
2010
: "That Hopey Changey Thing"
2005
: "The House of Bernarda Alba (Workshop)"
2004
: "Rodney’s Wife (WTF)"
2004
: "Rodney's Wife (Playwrights Horizons)"
2002
: "Sorrows and Rejoicings (2nd Stage)"
2002
: "Sorrows and Rejoicings (Mark Taper Forum)"
2001
: "Sorrows and Rejoicings (London)"
2001
: "Sorrows & Rejoicings (McCarter)"
2001
: "Sorrows & Rejoicings (Cape Town)"
2000
: "The Captain’s Tiger (Spoleto Festival)"
1999
: "The Captain's Tiger (MTC)"
1998
: "Valley Song (Seattle Rep)"
1998
: "The Captain’s Tiger (McCarter)"
1998
: "The Captain’s Tiger (La Jolla)"
1998
: "Happy Days"
1997
: "The Captain’s Tiger (South Africa)"
1997
: "Valley Song (Washington D.C.)"
1997
: "Valley Song (Mark Taper Forum)"
1996
: "Valley Song (Toronto)"
1996
: "Valley Song (Klein Karoo Festival)"
1996
: "Valley Song (Perth)"
1996
: "Valley Song (Sydney)"
1996
: "Valley Song (MTC)"
1995
: "Valley Song (McCarter)"
1995
: "Valley Song (Market Theater)"
1994
: "Hello and Goodbye"
1993
: "Playland (MTC)"
1992
: "Playland (Market Theater)"
1992
: "Boesman and Lena (MTC)"
1992
: "Playland (London)"
1992
: "Playland (La Jolla)"
1992
: "Playland (Alliance Theater)"
1991
: "A Lesson From Aloes (La Jolla)"
1990
: "My Children! My Africa! (Los Angeles)"
1990
: "My Children! My Africa! (La Jolla)"
1989
: "My Children! My Africa! (NYTW)"
1989
: "My Children! My Africa! (Market Theatre)"
1985
: "Sister and Miss Lexie (Second Stage)"
1985
: "Sister and Miss Lexie (Northlight Theatre)"
1982
: "She Stoops to Conquer"
1981
: "The Winter’s Tale"
1981
: "Agnes of God"
1980
: "Women Beware Women"
1979
: "Jack, or the Submission"
1978
: "Twelfth Night"
1978
: "The Misanthrope, Yale Cabaret"
1978
: "The Bat"
1978
: "Overruled"
1978
: "Madman and the Nun"
1978
: "Death"
1976
: "Three Men on a Horse"
1975
: "Juno and the Paycock"
Director
2000
: "The Captain’s Tiger (Spoleto Festival)"
1999
: "The Captain's Tiger (MTC)"
1998
: "Valley Song (Seattle Rep)"
1998
: "The Captain’s Tiger (McCarter)"
1998
: "The Captain’s Tiger (La Jolla)"
1997
: "The Captain’s Tiger (South Africa)"
Photography by
1976
: "Threshold of a Hope"
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