Neil Patel (United States)

Set Designer

Houston Grand Opera debut

About the Artist: Patel is a New York City based scenic designer who works in theater, opera, dance, and film. He has designed Oleanna, Sideman, Night Mother, Wonderland, and Ring of Fire for Broadway. Off-Broadway credits include productions at Second Stage, Manhattan Theater Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Theater Workshop, Vineyard Theater, and Playwrights Horizon, having designed productions of By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, This Beautiful City, The Beard of Avon, Living Out, Here Lies Jenny, Dinner with Friends, The Long Christmas Ride Home, Quills, and The Grey Zone. His regional work has been seen at Guthrie Theater, The Kennedy Center, Center Theater Group, McCarter Theater, Arena Stage, Center Stage, Steppenwolf, and Chicago Shakespeare, among others. His work with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company has been seen throughout the world, including at the Holland Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Exit Festival in Paris, and Brooklyn Academy of Music. Opera credits include those for the New York City, Santa Fe, Montreal, Boston Lyric, and Florida Grand operas, as well as Opera Theater of St. Louis, Tokyo Nikikai Opera Theater, and the Minnesota Opera. In Tokyo, he has designed productions of Candide, Bent, Torch Song Trilogy, and Take Flight at Parco Theater. London credits include Sideman and Underneath the Lintel (West End), A Question of Mercy (Bush Theater), and Henry IV (Royal Shakespeare Company). In dance, he has designed Shadowland for the Madrid premiere and European tour. For television and film, credits include In Treatment (HBO) and The Feiffer Dancer films. Patel has received the Helen Hayes Award, the 2000 EDDY Award, numerous Drama Desk and Hewes nominations, and the 1996 and 2001 Obie Awards for sustained excellence in set design.