During the 2024-25 season for HGO, David Farley serves as set and costume designer for La bohème, the same production he designed for the company in 2012 and its 2018 revival. The production has also been presented at San Francisco Opera and Canadian Opera Company, with the latter earning Farley nominations for two Dora Awards. Farley’s work has previously been seen at HGO in Parsifal (associate designer, 2024) and The Phoenix (designer, 2019). He is associate designer for Slung Low theater company in Leeds, U.K. Credits as designer include Sunday in the Park with George in New York and the West End, which won Olivier Awards for best design and best musical production at the Wyndhams. He was nominated for costume design and set design at the 2008 Tony Awards for Sunday in the Park with George. His credits in the West End include The Comedy about a Bank Robbery, McQueen, Daddy Long Legs, A Little Night Music, and Little Shop of Horrors, and on Broadway, A Little Night Music and 13. Further credits include Flood in Hull, Snapshots, Take Flight, Travesties, and Are You There, McPhee? in the United States; and the tours of Million Dollar Quartet, Rocky Horror Picture Show, and Crush. He is a guest lecturer at Wimbledon College of Arts.
Scenic and Costume Designer:
LA BOHÈME 2012-13, 2018-19
THE PHOENIX 2018-19 (World premiere)
Associate Scenic and Costume Designer:
PARSIFAL 2023-24