Beowulf Boritt
Beowulf Boritt is a New York City-based scenic designer for theater. He is known for his scenic design for the play Act One, which earned him the 2014 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design in a Play.[1]
Beowulf Boritt
Career[edit]
After meeting Boritt at NYU, Hal Prince asked him to design Daisy Prince's production of The Last Five Years and later Prince's production Paradise Found. Soon after, designing The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee launched his career on Broadway.[7]
Since then, he has designed over 20 Broadway shows, including his Tony Award-winning Act One and -nominated The Scottsboro Boys.
In 2007, he was awarded the Obie Award for sustained excellence in scenic design.[8] He has also won the AUDELCO Award for set design in 2002 and the 2012 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design.[9]
In 2015, Boritt designed the set for the Broadway debut of Helen Edmundson's play Thérèse Raquin.[10]
In 2016, Boritt was featured in a Microsoft Windows 10 commercial that aired nationwide.[11]
In 2016, he designed Chinese and American cooperated Broadway shows 'Jay Chou's The Secret'.
In 2017, he was featured in a New York Times article about his renovation of his home using his scenic design expertise.[6]
Other[edit]
In 2022 Boritt founded The 1/52 Project, a financial grant program to encourage early career designers from historically excluded groups.[16]