Broadway
Broadway
© Marc J. Franklin/Playbill
Broadway
Broadway
© Matthew Murphy
Peter Nigrini’s projections ... [evoke] the sometimes treacherous, sometimes buoying virtual waters in which high-schoolers swim.
New York • London
New York • London
© Joan Marcus
Peter Nigrini has designed on Broadway for The SpongeBob Musical, Dear Evan Hansen, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Amlié, An Act of God, The Heidi Chronicles, The Best Man, Fela!, 9 to 5 and Say Goodnight Gracie. Other designs include: Grounded (The Public Theater), Here Lies Love (The Public Theater / Royal National Theatre-London), Wakey, Wakey (Signature Theater), Real Enemies (BAM), Don Giovanni and Lucia di Lammermoor (Santa Fe Opera), Fetch Clay, Make Man (New York Theater Workshop; McCarter Theatre Center), The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, (2nd Stage Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Dallas Theatre Center), Notes from Underground (Yale Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Theater for a New Audience), Grace Jones’ – Hurricane Tour (Hollywood Bowl, Hammerstein Ballroom), Rent (New World Stages), Elsewhere (BAM), Haroun and the Sea of Stories (New York City Opera), Blind Date (Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance) and The Orphan of Zhao (Lincoln Center Festival). Peter is a founding member of the Obie award-winning theater company, Nature Theater of Oklahoma, for which he has designed scenery, costumes, lighting and projection for No Dice (Soho Rep), Romeo and Juliet (Salzburger Festspiele) and Life and Times (Burgtheater, Vienna) among others. Awards include the first ever Drama Desk for Outstanding Projection Design and 2013 Hewes Design Award for Here Lies Love, and a Special Lortel Award for Grounded.
Brooklyn Academy of Music • National Tour
Brooklyn Academy of Music • National Tour
© Noah Stern Weber
[Real Enemies] deftly inextricable play of image, text and sound suggests something close to a perfect collaboration
Public Theater (NYC)
Public Theater (NYC)
© Joan Marcus
Peter Nigrini’s video keeps the story vivid and the pace brisk, with Hathaway enveloped by a full-floor sonogram, or zipping along the Interstate in the move to Vegas, or wrapped in a kaleidoscope of neon once she gets there.
Broadway • London • Lagos
Yale Rep
Yale Rep
© Mark Barton
Video projections are all the rage these days in theater. But rarely have I seen the technology as illuminatingly used as it is in the opening scene here.
Broadway • National Tour
Broadway • National Tour
© Jim Cox
“I think what projection design is really doing is allowing us to tell stories in new ways. It’s really bringing the possibility of a cinematic form of storytelling to the theatre.”
World Tour
World Tour