Peter Nigrini’s (b.1971, Toronto) body of work has been developed primarily in New York City. He began working with a group of colleagues in small avante garde venues on the lower east side, and it was in this context that he first began experimenting with projection.

He has since worked in a number of disciplines in the theater. His video designs include: Jean Genet’s Elle produced as the inaugural production of The Art Party starring Alan Cumming, the Tony award nominated, Say Goodnight Gracie at the Helen Hayes Theatre, Biro at the Public Theater, the world premier of Charles Wuorinen’s adaptation of the Salman Rushdie novella, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Blind Date with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Camille Neil Bartlett's adaptation of Alexandre Dumas fils' La dame aux camélias, directed by Kate Whoriskey, Sweet Bird of Youth, for David Jones at the Williamstown Theater Festival, the world premier of Frau Margot, an opera by Thomas Pasatieri and Angels in America, an opera by Peter Eötvös, both for the Fort Worth Opera.

In addition to his work as a video designer he occasionally designs in other media for the theater including, scenery for the Lincoln Center Theater/Lincoln Center Festival Production of Chen Shi-Zheng’s Orphan of Zhao, he is a founding member of The Nature Theatre of Oklahoma for whom he has designed the Poetics: A Ballet Brut, No Dice, Romeo and Juliet, and Rambo Solo all of which were conceived and directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper.

Peter has also worked on a number of fine art projects including: Local Currencies - Diogenes/Barnum, a series of narrative photo installations, produced with Graham Parker, exhibited at the ICA London, the Dumbo Art Center, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the world premiere of Cosmicomics, a new composition for chamber ensemble and video by Richard Carrick based on the stories by Italo Calvino.

Mr. Nigrini attended Dartmouth College (B.A.), and the Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design’s International Scenography Centre (London), where he received his M.A. in 1999. Study at the centre included project work at DAMU (Prague) and the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Utrecht).

This past season, he designed Fela!, a new musical conceived and directed by Bill T. Jones, 9 to 5: The Musical, and Notes from Underground, an adaptation of the novel directed by Robert Woodruff. He is now working on the Hurricane Tour for Grace Jones, and a commission for the Burgtheater, Vienna, Life and Times with the Nature Theater of Oklahoma.