Wendall Harrington

Wendall K. Harrington is the "godmother" of projection design. Her Broadway design credits include: To Be Or Not To Be, Grey Gardens, In My Life, The Good Body, Vincent in Brixton, Amy’s View, Putting It Together, Ragtime, Freak, Company, The Will Rogers Follies, The Heidi Chronicles, The Who's Tommy, and They’re Playing Our Song. Opera credits include: The Grapes of Wrath for Minnesota Opera, The Turn of the Screw with The Royal Danish Opera, A View from the Bridge at the Met, The Photographer at BAM; The Magic Flute in Florence; and Orpheo in Vienna. She has created ballets with ABT, Doug Varone, and The Royal Danish Ballet. On the concert circuit, she designed projection for the Talking Heads, Simon and Garfunkel, Chris Rock, and John Fogerty. She designed and directed the premiere of Snapshots with the Elements Quartet, and the opera Arjuna’s Dilemma. She teaches Projection for Performance at the Yale School of Drama. In 2007 she received the Ruth Morley Designing Woman Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women.

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