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Roger Hanna
Scenic Designer
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New York City



www.rogerhanna.com
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Summit Entertainment
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Set Designs
 

2009
L’Elisir d’Amore
Directed by Martha Collins. Sarasota Opera.

La Traviata
Directed by Laura Alley. Mannes School of Music. Kaye Playhouse.

Opera Scene Workshop
Directed by Laura Alley. Mannes School of Music.

2008
Ballet of Light & Ghosts
Choreographed by Jody Sperling. Timelapse Dance. Alvin Ailey Theater.

Dialogues of the Carmelites
Directed by Laura Alley. Mannes School of Music. Kaye Playhouse.

Gimpel Tam
Directed by Moshe Yassur. National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.

The Glass Cage
2009 Lucille Lortel nomination for Outstanding Scenic Design.
Directed by Lou Jacobs. Mint Theater Company.

Opera Scene Workshop
Directed by Laura Alley. Mannes School of Music.

2007
Ballet of Light
Choreographed by Jody Sperling. Timelapse Dance.

Le Nozze di Figaro
Directed by Laura Alley. Mannes School of Music. Kaye Playhouse.

Little Shop of Horrors
Directed by Schott Flaherty. Darien Music Theatre.

Opera Scene Workshop

Directed by Laura Alley. Mannes School of Music.

2006
Cloudless
Choreographed by Susan Marshall. Dance Theater Workshop.

Il Tabarro / Gianni Schicchi
Directed by Laura Alley. Mannes School of Music. Kaye Playhouse.

Opera Scenes Workshop
Directed by Laura Alley. Mannes School of Music.

Random Acts
Directed by Festival Directors. New School for Drama.

Shelter From The Storm
Directed by Helen White. Theater for a New City.

2005
Brother (Production Design)
Directed by Susan Marshall. Raw Impressions.

Cloudless
Choreographed by Susan Marshall. Jacob’s Pillow.

Closer to Home
Directed by Helen White. Theater for a New City.

Die Zauberflöte
Directed by Laura Alley. Mannes School of Music. Kaye Playhouse.

Kiss Me, Kate
Directed by Kate Ufema. Marshall Performing Arts Center, Duluth.

Opera Viaggio
Directed by Gordon Ostrowsky. Manhattan School of Music.

Walking Down Broadway
2006 Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Set Design of a Play.
Directed by Steven Williford. Mint Theater Company.

2004
Beast Festival
Directed by Nancy Rogers. Triangle Theatre.

Don Giovanni
Directed by Robin Guarino. Mannes School of Music. Sylvia & Danny Kaye Playhouse.

La Máquina del Tiempo
Choreographed by Merián Soto. Temple University and Dance Theatre Workshop.

On the Town
Directed by Jack Allison. Pittsburgh Playhouse.

2003
Beast Festival
Directed by Nancy Rogers. Triangle Theatre.

Stone Mansion (Art Direction)
Directed by J. J. Goldberger. Began airing on Showtime in February 2004.

Tomorrow
Directed by Stephen Kennedy Murphy. Playwrights Theatre.

Top Girls
Directed by Maria Vail. Ramapo College of New Jersey.

2002
Beast Festival
Directed by Nancy Rogers. Triangle Theatre.

Before Basketball/Reality Girl
Directed by Stephen Kennedy Murphy. Playwrights Theatre.

Blood Wedding
Directed by Tracy Bersley. Provincetown Playhouse.

From the Mississippi Delta
Directed by Trazana Beverly. Crossroads Theatre.

Heaven or Cell
Choreographed by Renata Celichowska. NYU Dance Education.

Looking for Shakespeare 2002

Directed by Alistair Martin-Smith. Provincetown Playhouse.

New Works Festival
Festival Directors. NYU Dramatic Writing Program.

The Peasant’s Bible
Directed by Ron Jenkins. 7 Stages Theatre, Atlanta.

Shebang! (The Ugly Duckling, The Whole Shebang, Women & Wallace)

Directed by Julia Ashworth, David Kilpartrick, Anne Schreuder. Provincetown Playhouse.

Tomorrow
Directed by Stephen Kennedy Murphy. Playwrights Theatre.

Women of Wonder
Directed by Nancy Swortzell. Provincetown Playhouse.

2001
And Then They Came for Me
Directed by Nancy Swortzell. Provincetown Playhouse.

Body Parts
Directed by Lee Gundersheimer, Maggie Lally, Jaye Austin-Williams, and Paul Zablocki. Playwrights’ Playground / Manhattan Theatre Source.

The Chrysalids
Directed by Alistair Martin-Smith. Provincetown Playhouse.

L’enfant et les Sortilegès
Directed by Robin Guarino. NYU Music.

The Good Doctor
Directed by Thomas Gruenewald. Provincetown Playhouse.

The Greenwich Village Project

Directed by Michelle Berti, James DeVivo & David Kilpatrick. Provincetown Playhouse.

Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas
Directed by Ron Jenkins. American Repertory Theatre & NYU.

Looking for Shakespeare 2001
Directed by Alistair Martin-Smith. Knowledge Project.

Low Lives
Directed by Suzanne Bennett. Immigrants’ Theatre Project / Lower East Side Tenement Museum.

The Mourning Show!
Directed by Stephen Kennedy Murphy. Playwrights Theatre.

The Tempest
Directed by Alexa Kelly. Pulse Ensemble Theatre.

Twelfth Night
Directed by Louis Larkin. Pulse Ensemble Theatre.

2000
Assassins
Directed by Jack Allison. Provincetown Playhouse.

Camilla
Directed by Robin Guarino. NYU Music.

From the Mississippi Delta
Directed by Trazana Beverly. Queens Theatre in the Park & the New Jersey Performing Arts Center / tour.

Imaginary Friends
Directed by Alistair Martin-Smith. Provincetown Playhouse.

Looking for Shakespeare 2000
Directed by Alistair Martin-Smith. Knowledge Project.

The Personal Equation
Directed by Stephen Kennedy Murphy. Playwrights Theatre of New York.

1999
Brigadoon
Directed by Greg Ganakas. NYU Music.

Dragonwings
Directed by Alistair Martin-Smith. Pless Black Box.

A Game of Chance
Directed by Robin Guarino. NYU Music.

Hortense Said: "No Skin Off My Ass."
Directed by Kyle Ancowitz. Yolo Theatre Company.

Looking for Shakespeare
Directed by Alistair Martin-Smith. Knowledge Project.

MacBeth
Directed by Alexa Kelly. Pulse Ensemble Theatre.

Mixed Doubles
Directed by Kyle Ancowitz. Yolo Theatre Company.

Our Time: Voices of the Millennium
Directed by Greg Ganakas. NYU Music.

Riders to the Sea
Directed by Robin Guarino. NYU Music.

1998
Bones, Part III
Choreographed by Renata Celichowska. NYU Dance Education.

Young Eugene
Directed by Nancy Swortzell. Provincetown Playhouse.

1997
Afternoon of the Elves
Directed by Alistair Martin-Smith. Pless Black Box.

La Canterina
Directed by Judith Weinstein. NYU Music.

The Good Person of Szechwan
Directed by Helen White. Pless Black Box.

The Happy Prince
Directed by Judith Weinstein. NYU Music.

Odysseus (reading)
Music direction by Cynthia Kortman. Gilgamesh Theatre Group.

1996
Black Snow
Directed by Ralph Buckley. Gilgamesh Theatre Group.

Fen
Directed by Helen White. NYU Educational Theatre.
New Works Festival ‘95. Zena Group / One Dream Theatre.

The Orphan Train
Directed by Nancy Swortzell. Pless Black Box.

The Rimers of Eldritch
Directed by Helen White. Pless Black Box.

Selkie
Directed by Nancy Swortzell. NYU Educational Theatre.

Senseless: Vote, But Don't Mean It
Directed by Ralph Buckley. Gilgamesh Theatre Group.

1995
The Clever Mistress
Directed by Dorothy Danner. NYU Music.

Crocodiles in the Potomac
Directed by Suzanne Bennett. The Women's Project.

Spring Awakening
Directed by Helen White. Pless Black Box.

Il Trionfo dell'Onore
Directed by Jack Eddleman. NYU Music.

Two, Nikita
Directed by John Morrison. Gilgamesh Theatre Group.

The Ugly Older Sister
Directed by Miryam Habibian. Pless Black Box.

1994
The Ice-Fishing Play
Directed by Sheldon Deckelbaum. Gilgamesh Theatre Group.

If We Only Had a Cat
Directed by Nancy Swortzell. Pless Black Box.

Into the Woods
Directed by Helen White. Pless Black Box.

Monkey Bones
Directed by Suzanne Bennett. The Women's Project.

Pop Life (pilot)
Directed by Glen Weiss. Produced by Tony Horn. Fox Television NY.

Spring Awakening
Directed by Ian Watson. Rutgers Newark.

1993
After Dark
Directed by Marc Todd & Edith Demas. Pless Black Box.

Graffiti
Directed by Suzanne Bennett. Rutgers Newark.

The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket

Directed by David Marcia. Gilgamesh Theatre Group.

Walter's Finest Hours

Directed and choreographed by Susan Marshall. Susan Marshall & Company.

The Vietnamization of New Jersey
Directed by Suzanne Bennett. Rutgers Newark.

1992
Astonish Me
Directed by Rosemary Hay. Home for Contemporary Theatre & Art.

The Birds
Directed by Frans Rijnbout. Pless Black Box.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Directed by Richard Edwards. Summer Repertory Theatre, Santa Rosa.

Rock Paper Scissors
Choreographed by Lindsay Rockwell. Green Room Dance Company.

The Three Musketeers
Directed by Kathy Juarez. Summer Repertory Theatre, Santa Rosa.

The Vanessa Project

Choreographed by Elisa Monte & David Brown. Toshi Studios, Tokyo.

1991
The Crucible
Directed by Michael Parva. NYU Undergraduate Drama.

Fen
Directed by Cheryl Faver. NYU Graduate Drama.

Full Circle
Directed by Murray Changar. Artimis Associates.

Hi Hat Hattie
Directed by Richard Hopkins. Blowing Rock Stage Company.

Jack, or The Submission
Directed by Ralph Lee. Pless Black Box.

Lend Me A Tenor
Directed by Mark Wilson. Blowing Rock Stage Company.

Lettice and Lovage
Directed by Mark Wilson. Blowing Rock Stage Company.

The Oblonskys Don’t Understand Their Family's Problems

NYU Graduate Dance.

Olympic Spirit
Directed by Greg Gunning. ArtsPower Tour.

Pageant!
Directed by Teri Gibson. Blowing Rock Stage Company.

Peter Rabbit & Me
Directed by Nancy Swortzell. Pless Black Box.

Ubu Cuckolded & Ubu Enchained
Directed by Jim Calder. NYU Graduate Drama.

   
Projections Designs
  Hundreds of Sisters & One Big Brother
Directed by Elyse Singer. Produced by Jim Freydberg / Hourglass Productions, 2000.

Long Road Home
Directed by Barry Harman. Overture Theatre/Hudson Guild Theatre, 2000.

The Pinballs
Directed by Alistair Martin-Smith. Provincetown Playhouse, 1999.
   
Professional Affiliation
  United Scenic Artists, Local 829.
   
Training
  MFA, Set and Lighting Design, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 1991
BA, Theater, UCLA, 1988
   
Faculty Designer
  NYU Program in Educational Theatre, 1991—2001
Rutgers Newark, Spring 1993—Spring 1994
NYU Department of Music, 1996—2001
   
Resident Designer
 

Gilgamesh Theatre Group, 1994—2002
NYU Dramatic Writing Program, 1998—2002
NYU New Music & Dance Ensemble, 1999—2001
Mannes Opera, 2004—present.
Playwrights Theater of New York 2000—2004

   
Awards
 

2009 Lucille Lortel Nomination, Outstanding Scenic Design, The Glass Cage, Mint Theater Company.

2006 Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Set Design of a Play, Walking Down Broadway, Mint Theater Company.

 
   
 
 
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