About
TODD ROSENTHAL is a Chicago based set designer and educator. Broadway credits include: August Osage: County (Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Set Design of a Play), The Motherfucker with the Hat (Outer Critic’s Circle Award nomination and Tony Award nomination for Best Set Design of a Play), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony Award for Best Revival), Of Mice and Men (filmed by National Theatre Live), This is Our Youth, Fish in the Dark, Straight White Men, Linda Vista and the upcoming Eureka Day and Purpose. Off-Broadway World Premieres: Red Light Winter (Barrow Street Theatre. American Theater Wing Henry Hewes Award Nomination); Clean (Atlantic Theatre Company); Domesticated (Lincoln Center); Close Up Space and King James (Manhattan Theatre Club); The Qualms and Downstate (Playwrights Horizons) and Swingstate (Amazon Audible at the Minetta Lane Theatre). Set designer for The Big Apple Circus (Lincoln Center and Tour) for six years. International credits: August: Osage County (National Theatre of Great Britain, London and Sydney Theatre Company, Australia); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Waterford, Ireland); True West (Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland); Madama Butterfly (Irish National Opera, Dublin/Cork); Nice Fish (London’s West End); Downstate (National Theatre of Great Britain; London) and Life After (Toronto). Todd designs for theaters nationwide including Steppenwolf Theatre Company (34 productions), The Goodman Theatre (30 productions. Artistic Partner), Guthrie Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, American Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Alliance Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, The Old Globe, The Kennedy Center and many others. Todd started the exhibition design firm XL Scenic with designer Kevin Depinet. Museum exhibitions include Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition, The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes, and Victoria the T-Rex. He has received many other accolades including the Laurence Olivier Award (first American set designer), the Helen Hayes Award, the LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award, the Backstage Garland Award, multiple Suzi Bass Awards, multiple Joseph Jefferson Awards (21 nominations), the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award, the 2019 USITT Distinguished Achievement Award and the 2009 Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration. He has been nominated for 4 American Theater Wing Henry Hewes Design Awards for best set design. He exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial in 2007 and 2019. He was on the selection committee for the 2023 US Prague exhibition. Todd is the Jaharis Family Foundation Endowed Professor of Theater at Northwestern University and a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
Northwestern University MFA in Stage Design Website: https://stagedesign.northwestern.edu
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
**Denotes Award
**2024 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Matchbox Magic Flute, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL.
2018 JOSEPH JEFFERSON NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Purpose, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, IL.
**2022 BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY (SUZI BASS AWARD) for A Christmas Carol, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA.
**2022 BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A MUSICAL (SUZI BASS AWARD) for Darlin Corey, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA.
2022 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for King James, Steppenwollf Theatre Company, Chicago, IL.
**2019 DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD presented by The United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT).
2019 LOS ANGELES STAGE ALLIANCE OVATION AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Linda Vista, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA.
2019 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for How to Catch Creation, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL.
2019 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Chicago Shakespeare, Chicago, IL.
**2018 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD FOR BEST SET DESIGN for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Lookinglass Theatre, Chicago, IL.
2018 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Doppelgänger, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, IL.
**2017 BEST SCENIC DESIGN (SUZI BASS AWARD) for Troubadour, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA.
2017 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Uncle Vanya, Goodman Theater, Chicago, IL.
2017 INDEPENDENT REVIEWERS OF NEW ENGLAND (IRNE) AWARD NOMINATION for Nice Fish, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA.
**2016 BAY AREA THEATRE CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Treasure Island, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA.
2016 AMERICAN THEATRE WING HENRY HEWES DESIGN AWARD NOMINATION for Nice Fish, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY.
2015 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Little Foxes, Goodman Theater, Chicago, IL.
2014 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Luna Gale, Goodman Theater, Chicago, IL.
**2013 HELEN HAYES AWARD FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Red, Arena Stage, Washington, DC.
2013 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for The Motherfucker with the Hat, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago.
**2012 BEST SCENIC DESIGN (SUZI BASS AWARD) for Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, The Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA.
2012 BEST SCENIC DESIGN NOMINATION (SUZI BASS AWARD) for Into the Woods, The Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA.
**2012 BROADWAYWORLD.COM BEST SCENIC DESIGN (PROFESSIONAL) The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, The Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA.
2012 BAY AREA THEATRE CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD NOMINATION Ghost Light, Berkeley Repertory Theater.
2012 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Clybourne Park, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, IL.
2012 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Red, Goodman Theater, Chicago, IL.
2012 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Clybourne Park, Court Theatre, Chicago, IL.
**2011 LOS ANGELES STAGE ALLIANCE OVATION AWARD for Twist, An American Musical, Pasadena Playhouse, CA.
2011 ANTOINETTE PERRY AWARD (TONY AWARD) NOMINATION FOR BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY for The Motherfucker with the Hat.
2011 OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SCENIC DESIGN for The Motherfucker with the Hat.
2011 AMERICAN THEATRE WING HENRY HEWES DESIGN AWARD NOMINATION for The Motherfucker with the Hat, New York City.
2011 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago, IL.
**2010 BEST SCENIC DESIGN (SUZI BASS AWARD) for Avenue X, The Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, GA.
2010 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for A Parallelogram, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, IL.
**2010 LOS ANGELES BACKSTAGE GARLAND AWARD for August: Osage County.
**2009 LAURENCE OLIVIER AWARD FOR BEST SET DESIGN for August Osage County, London. First American set designer to win this award.
**2009 MICHAEL MERRITT AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN AND COLLABORATION.
**2008 ANTOINETTE PERRY AWARD (TONY AWARD) FOR BEST SCENIC DESIGN OF A PLAY for August: Osage County.
2008 AMERICAN THEATRE WING HENRY HEWES DESIGN AWARD NOMINATION for August Osage County, New York City.
** 2007 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD FOR BEST SET DESIGN for August: Osage County, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, IL.
2006 AMERICAN THEATRE WING HENRY HEWES DESIGN AWARD NOMINATION for Red Light Winter, New York City.
**AFTER DARK AWARD (BEST SET DESIGN) for The Clean House, Chicago, IL.
BEST SCENIC DESIGN NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Take Me Out by The Barrymore Awards Committee, Philadelphia, PA.
2006 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for The Clean House, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL.
2006 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for The Weir, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago, IL.
2006 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for Experiment with an Airpump, Northlight Theatre, Skokie, IL
**AFTER DARK AWARD (BEST SET DESIGN) for An Experiment with an Airpump, Northlight Theater, Chicago, IL.
**NEW CITY “SET DESIGN OF THE YEAR” for Schoolgirl Figure, The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL.
1995 JOSEPH JEFFERSON AWARD NOMINATION FOR BEST SET DESIGN for The Barber of Seville, Court Theatre, Chicago, IL.
**AFTER DARK AWARD (BEST SET DESIGN) for The Barber of Seville, Court Theatre, Chicago, IL.