Notable recent designs include King Hedley II by August Wilson, directed by James Ijames, Penelope Alex Bechtel, directed by Eva Steinmetz, The Duat by Roger Q Mason, directed by Taibi Magar, Archduke by Rajiv Joseph, directed by Blanka Zizka, this house is not a home with Nile Harris, Sandra for the Vineyard Theatre, by David Cale and directed by Leigh Silverman, David Lang’s Prisoner of the State for the NY Philharmonic and Barbican, Stew and Heidi Rodewald’s The Total Bent for The Public Theatre, August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned and Naomi Wallace's The Liquid Plain for Signature Theatre Company, Teller and Aaron Posner’s The Tempest and Macbeth for Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, and multiple works with Pilobolus including Branches, Tales from the Underworld, and Flight.
His work has been seen at The Public Theatre, Roundabout Theatre Company, The Joyce, Signature Theater Company (NY), Arden Theatre, New Paradise Laboratories, Wilma Theater (Associate Artist), Philadelphia Theatre Company, Curtis Institute, Headlong, The Kimmel Center, Alley, Alliance, Milwaukee Rep, Huntington Theatre Company, Geva, Indiana Rep, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre, Cherry Lane, Virginia Stage, Portland Center Stage, Folger Theatre, Asolo Rep, Theater J, Roundhouse, Two River, Hangar Theatre, CenterStage, Cal Shakes, Syracuse Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Williamstown, The Committee Theatre, The Ohio, Delaware Theatre Company, Spoleto Festival USA, City Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, and Yale Rep, as well as internationally in London, Paris, Berlin, and Barcelona.
As artistic director for Flashpoint Theatre Company (2010-2015), he designed and produced the world premieres of slip/shot by Jacqueline Goldfinger (2 Barrymores including Best New Play), Run, Mourner, Run by Tarrell McCraney (Barrymore nom: Best New Play), The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington by James Ijames (6 Barrymore noms including Best New Play), The Fat Cat Killers by Adam Szymkowicz, The Bends by Megan Mostyn-Brown, and Hands Up by the New Black Fest (2 Barrymore nominations).
His designs have been nominated for over 30 Barrymores, winning in 2011 (In the Next Room), 2012 (Knives in Hens), 2014 (Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq), 2017 (Scenery, The Seagull), and 2019 (Gem of the Ocean, Scenery and Lighting). He is also a 2-time Jeff Award Winner (The Tempest, 2016, Macbeth, 2018), a 5-time Helen Hayes Award nominee, winning in 2023 (The Tempest), and a 4-time AUDELCO Award nominee, winning for his work on Signature Theatre’s King Hedley II in 2007 and in 2014 for How I Learned What I Learned, also at the Signature. He is a member Wingspace Theatrical Design, an Associate Artist for The Wilma Theater, and the co-founder of Die-Cast with collaborator Brenna Geffers. He received his B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University and his M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama.
He was formerly Associate Professor and Program Director for Theatre Design and Technology at the Ira Brind School of Theater Arts, University of the Arts.