Peter Nigrini’s 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 and director Patricia Ybarra first began experimenting with projection as a theatrical tool in Tim Griffin’s Fingerprints at the Clement Soto Vélez Cultural Center.

He has since worked in a number of disciplines in the theatre. 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 Booth Variations, a new play by Caridad Svich and Todd Cerveris, the World Premier of Charles Wuorinen’s Adaptation of the Salman Rushdie novella, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Blind Date a new work with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, The Handel and Haydn Society production of Dido and Aeneas, Camille for the Bard summerscape Festival, Sweet Bird of Youth at the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

In addition to his work as a video designer he occasionally designs in other media for the theatre including, scenery for the Lincoln Center Theater/Lincoln Center Festival Production of Chen Shi-Zheng’s Orphan of Zhao, Scenery for Poetics: A Ballet Brut, conceived and directed by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, Scenery and Lighting for City Voices at Het Veem Theater, Amsterdam, and Lighting for Lovely Stones in the Woslley Warehouse, London.

Peter has also worked on a number of fine art projects including: Digital Campfires, a multi-channel video installation, for the EXIT festival (Sweden), Local Currencies - Diogenes/Barnum, a series of narrative photo installations, produced with the artist Graham Parker, which has been 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 Italo Calvino stories of the same name.

Nigrini attended Dartmouth College (B.A. in Theater and Film), 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).

He is currently designing video for Frau Margot, a new opera by Thomas Pasatieri for the Fort Worth Opera, and a video accompaniment to Subway Songs, a new album by the Metta Quintet to be released on Sunnyside Records in June.