Hell's Kitchen

© Joan Marcus

Upcoming Projects

• Hell's KitchenBroadway
• LempickaBroadway
• The Who's TommyBroadway

© Matthew Murphy & Evan Zimmerman

Recent Projects

• Deep Blue SeaBill T. Jones / Park Avenue Armory
• Dear Evan HansenBroadway
• A Doll's House, Part 2Broadway
• Hans Zimmer LiveWorld Tour
• MJ: The MusicalBroadway
• Ain't Too ProudBroadway
• Grace Jones — HurricaneWorld Tour
• KPOPBroadway
• BeetlejuiceBroadway
• Real EnemiesB.A.M. / National Tour
• Lucia di LammermoorSanta Fe Opera
• Here Lies LoveBroadway

© Matthew Murphy

“You'll leave the Neil Simon Theatre...on a giddy high...” — Rolling Stone

© Lindsay Cave

“Relentlessly spectacular.” — Express UK

© Sara Krulwich / The New York Times

“...visually and sonically stunning.” — The New York Times

© Sara Krulwich / The New York Times

“Time and again, projection designer Peter Nigrini flashes the name of that municipality across the back of the Imperial stage. From the evidence of the marvelous “Ain't Too Proud,” the letters that spell “Detroit” can never be written big enough.” — The Washington Post

© Matthew Murphy

“A jaw-dropping fun house...” — The New York Times

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© Matthew Murphy

“Peter Nigrini's projections ... [evoke] the sometimes treacherous, sometimes buoying virtual waters in which high-schoolers swim.” — The New York Times

© Joan Marcus

Peter Nigrini has designed on Broadway for MJ: The Musical, Beetlejuice, Ain't Too Proud, The SpongeBob Musical, Dear Evan Hansen, A Doll's House, Part 2, Amélie, 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 the 2013 Hewes Design Award for Here Lies Love, a Special Lortel Award for Grounded and two Tony nominations.

© Noah Stern Weber

“[Real Enemies'] deftly inextricable play of image, text and sound suggests something close to a perfect collaboration.” — The New York Times

© 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.” — Hollywood Reporter

© Monique Carboni

Video Clips

© 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.” — The New York Times