Santo Loquasto

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Santo Loquasto (b. 26 July 1944, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) is an American production designer, scenic designer and costume designer for stage, film, and dance.[1] His work includes the productions of the ballet Don Quixote, the film Don't Drink the Water, Great Performances Dance in America: Fosse, and the television show TriBeCa.[2]

He has worked on some 61 Broadway productions, either as scenic or costume designer, frequently both, starting with Sticks and Bones in 1972 and with his most recent production, Waiting for Godot in 2009. He has received 15 Tony Award nominations for his work as either costumer or scenic designer, and won three times, and he also has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design three times and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design once.

Santo Loquasto has been a production designer for many Woody Allen films, and has been nominated for the Academy Award for his production design for Allen's Bullets Over Broadway and Radio Days, and for costume design for Zelig. [3] He has a B.A. in English literature from King's College, Pennsylvania.He got his start as a designer atv Showcase theatre in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania.

[edit] Awards

Tony Awards

Best Costume Design:

Best Scenic Design:

[edit] References

  1. ^ Santo Loquasto biography with list of works with the American Ballet Theatreabt.org, accessed February 11, 2009
  2. ^ John J. O'Connor (30 March 1993). "A Serious Show On Fox. Seriously". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFDF1538F933A05750C0A965958260. Retrieved 2008-05-10. 
  3. ^ Gregg Goldstein (22 June 2007). "Woody Allen "Seduced" by Los Angeles Opera". Hollywood Reporter. http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN2240744620070622. Retrieved 2008-05-10. 
  4. ^ Frank Rich (26 October 1988). ""Cafe Crown", Bygone World of Yiddish Theater". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE4DD143CF935A15753C1A96E948260. Retrieved 2008-05-10. 

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Awards
Preceded by
Boris Aronson
for Pacific Overtures		 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design
1976-1977
for The Cherry Orchard		 Succeeded by
Robin Wagner
for On the Twentieth Century
v • d • e
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design

Boris Aronson (1976) · David Mitchell (1977) · Robin Wagner (1978) · Eugene Lee (1979) · John Lee Beatty (1980) · John Bury (1981) · John Napier / Dermot Hayes (1982) · Ming Cho Lee (1983) · Tony Straiges (1984) · Heidi Landesman (1985) · Tony Walton (1986) · John Napier (1987) · Maria Björnson (1988) · Santo Loquasto (1989) · Robin Wagner (1990) · Heidi Landesman (1991) · Richard Walton (1992) · John Arnone (1993) · Bob Crowley (1994) · John Napier (1995) · Brian Thomson (1996) · Stewart Laing (1997) · Richard Hudson (1998) · Richard Hoover (1999) · Bob Crowley (2000)
v • d • e
Tony Award for Best Costume Design

Florence Klotz (1976) · Theoni V. Aldredge (1977) · Edward Gorey (1978) · Franne Lee (1979) · Theoni V. Aldredge (1980) · Willa Kim (1981) · William Ivey Long (1982) · John Napier (1983) · Theoni V. Aldredge (1984) · Florence Klotz (1985) · Patricia Zipprodt (1986) · John Napier (1987) · Maria Björnson (1988) · Claudio Segovio / Hector Orezzoli (1989) · Santo Loquasto (1990) · Willa Kim (1991) · William Ivey Long (1992) · Florence Klotz (1993) · Ann Hould-Ward (1994) · Florence Klotz (1995) · Roger Kirk (1996) · Judith Dolan (1997) · Julie Taymor (1998) · Lez Brotherston (1999) · Martin Pakledinaz (2000) · William Ivey Long (2001) · Martin Pakledinaz (2002) · William Ivey Long (2003) · Susan Hilferty (2004)


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