ARTIST AVATAR
Projection Designer
Wendall K. Harrington
United States

About

Biography

Wendall K. Harrington’s career has embraced diverse disciplines including projection design for theater, publishing, and video production. Her work has been seen at HGO in The Abduction from the Seraglio (2017, 2008), Nixon in China (2017), and The Juniper Tree (1986). Her opera credits include Werther at the Metropolitan Opera; Julie Taymor’s The Magic Flute in Florence, Italy; A View from the Bridge at Lyric Opera of Chicago; Die Gezeichneten at Los Angeles Opera; The Photographer at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Brundibar for Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Palm Beach Opera; and TransatlanticThe Grapes of Wrath, and Rusalka for Minnesota Opera. Her Broadway credits include Paradise SquareDriving Miss DaisyGray GardensThey’re Playing Our SongMy One and OnlyThe Heidi ChroniclesThe Will Rogers FolliesHaving Our SayCompanyRagtimeThe Capeman, and The Who’s Tommy. She has received the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the American Theatre Wing Award, the TCI Award for Technical Achievement, the Obie Award for sustained excellence in projection design, the Michael Merritt Award for collaboration, the Ruth Morely Design Award for women in design, and a Lifetime Recognition Award from the Knights of Illumination. She is head of the projection design concentration at the Yale School of Drama.

Repertoire

Projection Designer: 

THE JUNIPER TREE 1985-86

THE ABDUCTION FROM THE SERAGLIO 2007-08, 2016-17

NIXON IN CHINA 2016-17