John B. Wilson Set Designer
RESUME
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LEAGUE OF RESIDENT THEATRES
THEATREWORKS (Palo Alto / Mountain View, CA) 1991-2010
The Light In The Piazza Yellow Face Grey Gardens
Caroline Or Change Third Into The Woods
Ragtime The Joy Luck Club Cabaret
The Secret Garden Ah, Wilderness! The World Goes 'Round
Marvin's Room Josephine (world premiere) Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Once On This Island Miami Lights  
AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE (Geary Theatre and Stage Door Theatre, San Francisco) 1990-2004
The Real Thing Waiting for Godot The Guardsman
The Royal Family Gaslight The Play's the Thing
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday
MARIN THEATRE COMPANY (Mill Valley, CA) 1993-2011
Seven Guitars Tiny Alice Equivocation
Sunlight The Seafarer Said Saïd
Displaced Beggar's Holiday Fugitive Kind
The Hairy Ape Company One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
All In the Timing Wilder! Wilder! Wilder! Lips Together, Teeth Apart
Inspecting Carol
BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE 1986-1999
Collected Stories Our Country's Good Hedda Gabler
The Birthday Party Hard Times
SAN JOSÉ REPERTORY THEATRE 1985-1999
The Matchmaker The Game of Love and Chance The Lady's Not For Burning
Holiday Laughter on the 23rd Floor The Glass Menagerie
The Caretaker 007: Crossfire A Man for All Seasons
Extremities
STUDIO ARENA THEATRE (Buffalo, N.Y.) 1991
Sweet 'N' Hot In Harlem
AMERICAN THEATRE EXCHANGE (Joyce Theatre at Theatre 890, New York City) 1987
Hard Times (with Berkeley Repertory Theatre)
     
     
OTHER REGIONAL THEATRES
CENTER REPERTORY THEATRE (Walnut Creek, CA) 2009
Witness For The Prosecution
AURORA THEATRE (Berkeley, CA) 2002-2007
Bosoms and Neglect Emma The Old Neighborhood
Therèse Raquin Benefactors
AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE OF SAN JOSÉ 1995-2006
Gypsy On the Twentieth Century The Sound of Music
The 3hree Musketeers The Who's Tommy Crazy for You
Once On This Island A Little Night Music Man of La Mancha
MAGIC THEATRE (San Francisco, * indicates world premiere) 1979-2005
The Sweetest Swing in Baseball The Eviction * The American in Me *
Kissing the Witch Three Hotels Playland
The End of the Day Temptation Eastern Standard
Jacques and His Master The Film Society Breaking the Code
Interior Decoration * Spider Rabbit & The Beard Aunt Dan and Lemon
Scar * Memory Hotel * Suicide in B-Flat
All Night Long * Emperor Norton * Magnetic Kisses *
The Red Snake *
SAN FRANCISCO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Gershwin Theatre) 1994-1997
Opening Dedication Gala The Boys from Syracuse Oh, Kay!
CALIFORNIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Bruns Amphitheatre, Orinda) 1992-1996
Merry Wives of Windsor Henry V Macbeth
ARTISTS CONFRONTING AIDS (S. F.) 1993
Queen of Angels (Set & Costumes)
FOLGER SHAKESPEARE THEATRE (Washington, D.C.) 1993
Suppliant Women Set, Costumes, & Projections (with Stanford University)
J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM (Malibu, CA) 1992
The Odyssey (with the Mark Taper Forum)
THEATRE RHINOCEROS (San Francisco) 1979-1992
T-shirts Bent (Set & Costumes) Passing
CALIFORNIA THEATRE CENTER (Sunnyvale) 1990
Undine
EUREKA THEATRE COMPANY (San Francisco) 1980-1989
Tales of the Lost Formicans Mary Barnes Frozen Assets
Song of a Nomad Flute (Set & Costumes)
BAY AREA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL (Palace of the Legion of Honor, S.F.) 1979
Kid Twist
     
     
REGIONAL OPERA AND BALLET
OPERA FESTIVAL OF NEW JERSEY (Mc Carter Theatre, Princeton, and N.J. Performing Arts Center, Newark) 1998
The Marriage of Figaro
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA CENTER (Theatre Artaud & Stern Grove) 1988-1992
Rosina Ariodante La Finta Giardiniera
OPERA SAN JOSÉ (California Theatre) 2011
Pagliacci La Voix Humaine
OPERA SAN JOSÉ (Montgomery Theatre) 1987, 1991
Lucia di Lammermoor Tosca
BALLET THEATRE SAN JOSÉ 1997
Beauty and the Beast
     
     
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
BACK STAGE WEST GARLAND AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN WEST COAST THEATRE 1998
The Guardsman
BAY AREA CRITICS CIRCLE BARBARA BLADEN PORTER AWARD FOR CONTINUED CREATIVE EXCELLENCE 1998
THEATRE L.A. OVATION AWARD 1995
Man Of La Mancha
BAY AREA THEATRE CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS
The Seafarer – 2009 Grey Gardens – 2009 Caroline, or Change – 2009
The Who's Tommy - 1997 Man of La Mancha - 1995 The Secret Garden - 1995
Ah, Wilderness! - 1994 The World Goes 'Round - 1994 Breaking the Code – 1988
BAY AREA THEATRE CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINATIONS
The Light in the Piazza – 2010 Sunlight – 2010 Ragtime - 2003
The Hairy Ape - 2003 The Royal Family - 1997 A Little Night Music - 1996
All In The Timing - 1996 Cabaret - 1996 The Playʼs the Thing - 1995
Lips Together, Teeth Apart -1994 Three Hotels - 1994 Oh, Kay! - 1994
Les Liaisons Dangereuses -1992 Miami Lights – 1991 Jacques and His Master - 1990
Hedda Gabler - 1989 The Birthday Party - 1987 Scar - 1985
Mary Barnes - 1981 All Night Long - 1980 The Red Snake - 1979
HOLLYWOOD DRAMA-LOGUE CRITICS' AWARDS
Crazy For You - 1996 The Playʼs the Thing - 1995 Wilder! Wilder! Wilder! - 1994
Ah, Wilderness! - 1994 Breaking the Code - 1988
DEAN GOODMAN CHOICE AWARDS 1999, 2002
Ragtime The Joy Luck Club
     
     
EXHIBIT
GENSLER AND ASSOCIATES, ARCHITECTS (S. F.) Art Series XIII, Theatre Design 1986
     
     
PUBLICATIONS
ALLYN & BACON 2006
Theatre: Collaborative Acts, by Ronald Wainscott & Kathy Fletcher
Set design for Waiting for Godot, American Conservatory Theatre, production photograph p. 237
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2002
The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy, by Dr. Rush Rehm
Set, Costumes, and Projections for Euripides' Suppliant Women, cover photograph
HOWARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1996
Ancient Songs Set Ablaze: The Theatre of Femi Osofisan, by Dr. Sandra L. Richards
Set and costume designs for Farewell to A Cannibal Rage, fig. 7-12
     
     
TEACHING
Professor, Set Design, Period Style San Francisco State University 1997- present
Lecturer, Stagecraft, Period Style San Francisco State University 1993-1997
Lecturer, Set & Costume Design Stanford University 1995
Lecturer, Scenic Design, Period Style San José State University 1992-1993
Assistant Professor, Set & Costume Design Stanford University 1983-1992
Lecturer, Scenic Design City College of San Francisco 1982
Lecturer, Stage Properties San Francisco State University 1979-1982
Lecturer, Scenic Design Santa Rosa Junior College 1979
     
     
TEACHING AWARDS
CELEBRATION OF SCHOLARLY AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES HONOREE 1996
San Francisco State University
DEAN'S AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING 1986-1987
Stanford University
     
     
DESIGNS FOR COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY THEATRES
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY 1998-2010
Vinegar Tom A Streetcar Named Desire Julius Caesar
M. Butterfly The Miser The Rover
SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY 1992
The Gospel at Colonus (Set & Costumes)
STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF DRAMA 1983-1992
Set and/or Costumes for over 30 productions, including (partial list):
Suppliant Women The Changeling The Normal Heart
The Taming of the Shrew Tartuffe The Colored Museum
All's Well that Ends Well The School for Women Farewell to a Cannibal Rage
Macbeth The Seagull Sweeney Agonistes
The Tempest Trelawny of the "Wells” The Melody that Got Lost
Twelfth Night La Ronde The Illusion
As You Like It Balm in Gilead Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Arden of Faversham Jacques and His Master The Maids
PCPA THEATREFEST (Solvang/Santa Maria, CA) 1985
Painting Churches Gypsy
THE WESTERN STAGE (Salinas, CA) 1983-1984
Foxfire The Hostage The Importance of Being Earnest
The Time of Your Life Romeo and Juliet As You Like It
Broadway Annie The Sound of Music
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CONSERVATORY THEATRE (Cerritos/La Mirada) 1981-1982
Working West Side Story
SUMMER REPERTORY THEATRE (Santa Rosa, CA) 1979
A Streetcar Named Desire Witness for the Prosecution
     
     
COLOR CONSULTING
GERSHWIN THEATRE (INTERIOR) S. F. Shakespeare Festival / University of San Francisco 1996
PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL VICTORIAN EXTERIORS (San Francisco) 1983-present
     
     
SET RENTALS
THROUGH THE AMERICAN MUSICAL THEATRE OF SAN JOSÉ 1995-2003
Papermill Playhouse (NJ) N. Carolina Musical Theatre (Raleigh) Fifth Avenue Theatre (Seattle)
Long Beach Civic Light Opera Theatre Under the Stars (Houston) McCoy-Rigby Entertainment
Music Theatre of Wichita Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera Bass Performance Hall (Dallas)
Music Theatre of Southern Calif. Aladdin Theatre (Las Vegas)
THROUGH THEATREWORKS 2003
Walnut Creek Light Opera
     
     
EDUCATION
MFA, Scenic Design Carnegie-Mellon University 1982
MA, Theatre Arts San Francisco State University 1979
BFA, Drama Illinois Wesleyan University School of Drama 1975