A.A. Bakhrushin Central State Theatre Museum

Ms. Greenwood has been designing on Broadway for more than fifty years. Originally from Liverpool, England, Ms. Greenwood was educated at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London. She began her career at the Oxford Playhouse. She has designed for theater, opera, dance, film and television, including over 125 productions for Broadway since The Ballad Of The Sad Café in 1963. Recent Broadway credits includeYou Can't Take It With You, Act One, The Snow Geese, The Assembled Parties, Harvey, The House of Blue Leaves, That Championship Season, Driving Miss Daisy, Million Dollar Quartet, and A View From The Bridge. Her Off-Broadway credits include Belle Epoque, A Man of No Importance, Burn This, House/Garden, Vita and Virginia and The Lisbon Traviata. Films include Arthur, Glengarry Glen Ross, Oleanna and the cult classic Can't Stop the Music. She has designed over a dozen productions at the American Shakespeare Festival Theater in Stratford, CT. Ms. Greenwood has also done extensive work at the Metropolitan Opera, the Center Theatre Group, the Guthrie Theater, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, The Dallas Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Her awards include a Tony for Lifetime Achievement, 18 Tony nominations, the Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award, the Maharam/ Henry Hewes Design Award for Tartuffe and Sylvia, the Lucille Lortel Award for Sylvia and Old Money, and the Helen Hayes Lifetime Achievement Award. Ms. Greenwood was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2003. She has been a Professor of Design at the Yale School of Drama since 1976.

Designer Gallery

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