Design for Stage and Film
Andrew Jackness |
Biography
His work has been seen on Broadway in the musical The Scarlet Pimpernel, Precious Sons, Michael Weller’s Spoils of War, Jules Feiffer’s Grownups, The Little Foxes, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang, Whodunnit, Michael Feinstein on Broadway, Arthur Kopit’s Wings, as well as the Hal Prince production of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Whistle Down the Wind. He is currently designing the Kennedy Center Revival of Carnival!
As film production designer: Elmore Leonard'sKillshot, directed by John Madden, and has also designed Stanley Tucci’s Big Night, The Impostors, and Joe Gould’s Secret, as well as Reckless, Prelude to a Kiss, Longtime Companion, and Blue Window, directed by Norman Rene. He has also designed The Love Letter, The Associate with Whoopi Goldberg, and Ethan Frome and Golden Gate, both directed by John Madden.
He has worked with choreographer Ulysses Dove on the ballets Vespers, Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven, and Urban Folk Dance.
For Television: The series Life As We Know it, and In The Gloaming for HBO.
His regional credits include Mr. Robert’s at the Kennedy Center, the Charles Ludlam production of Die Fledermaus and Cosi Fan Tutte at Santa Fe Opera, Strauss’ Intermezzo at New York City Opera, Salome for Glimmerglass Opera, South Pacific with Richard Kiley for Los Angeles Civic Light Opera, Spoleto Festival USA, Savageland at Washington Opera, Frida for Houston Grand Opera, and work for the Arena Stage, the Mark Taper Forum, the American Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theater, Seattle Rep, ACT Seattle, Hartford Stage Co., The Folger Shakespeare Theater, Yale Repertory Theater, St. Louis Rep., Dallas Theater Center, Center Stage, Virginia Stage Co., and the Williamstown Theater Festival. Off-Broadway, his work includes designs for Jam on the Groove with Ghetto Original dance group; for the New York Shakespeare Festival; Salonika, Cinders, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream; as well as work for the Music Theater Group; the American Place Theater; the Roundabout Theater; Manhattan Theater Club; Circle in the Square; the Dodgers; BAM Theater Co.; and Circle Rep.
He has served as artistic associate for the Second Stage and for the Playwrights Horizons, where he designed Geniuses and Wendy Wasserstein’s Isn’t it Romantic. He has been the recipient of the Obie and Carbonell awards and has been nominated for the Drama Desk and Maharam awards.
As an illustrator, he has collaborated with playwright Wendy Wasserstein on a children’s book titled Pamela’s First Musical.
