Allen Moyer

Recent Broadway: THE LYONS, LYSISTRATA JONES, AFTER MISS JULIE, GREY GARDENS (Tony/Drama Desk Nominations, Henry Hewes Award), THURGOOD, THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED, THE CONSTANT WIFE, TWELVE ANGRY MEN. Off-Broadway credits include: LOG CABIN, FAR FROM HEAVEN and the premiere of LOBBY HERO (Playwright’s Horizons) , the premiere of THIS IS OUR YOUTH (New Group, etc.), and productions for The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, Second Stage, The Roundabout Theatre, Signature Theatre Company, Vineyard Theater, The Drama Dept., Manhattan Theater Club, Lincoln Center Theater Company, and CAROUSEL and SHOWBOAT with the New York Philharmonic. Also, Resident Scenic Designer for the ENCORES! Series at New York City Center since 2017.

Regional theater: PARADISE SQUARE (Premiere) for the Berkeley Rep, and numerous productions for the Guthrie Theater, The Goodman, The Stratford Festival (Canada), Williamstown Theater Company, Yale Rep, Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf, Steppenwolf, Baltimore’s Center Stage, LA’s Center Theater Group and the Huntington Theater.

Extensive opera credits include: ORFEO ED EURIDICE for The Metropolitan Opera, the premiere of THE HOUSE WITHOUT A CHRISTMAS TREE by Ricky Ian Gordon (Houston Grand Opera), DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER (The Canadian Opera Company/The Dallas Opera), L’ELISIR D’AMORE (The Canadian Opera Company), REGINA, THE GRAPES OF WRATH and EMMELINE (Opera Theater of St. Louis), DEAD MAN WALKING and CHAMPION for the Washington National Opera, DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL (LA Opera), DIE FLEDERMAUS (English National Opera), CURLEW RIVER (Tanglewood Festival/ BAM), LA FILLE DU REGIMENT, THE LAST SAVAGE (Scenery and Costumes) VANESSA and THE TALES OF HOFFMAN for Santa Fe Opera, VIRGINIA (Scenery and Costumes) and THE GHOSTS OF VERSAILLES for the Wexford Festival (Ireland), NIXON IN CHINA (most recently Houston Grand Opera and Canadian Opera Company), plus productions for San Francisco Opera, Minnesota Opera, Scottish Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Welsh National Opera, L’Accademia di Santa Cecilia (Rome), Seattle Opera and several productions for New York City Opera, including Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson’s THE MOTHER OF US ALL, IL TRITTICO, IL VIAGGIO A REIMS, and LA BOHEME (also broadcast on Live from Lincoln Center).

Mr. Moyer also designed the Delibes ballet SYLVIA for The San Francisco Ballet, and ROMEO AND JULIET: ON MOTIFS OF SHAKESPEARE (for the Mark Morris Dance Group) both choreographed by Mr. Morris.

Moyer is the recipient of a 2006 OBIE Award for sustained excellence, a Distinguished Alumni Award from Pennsylvania State University and an honorary Doctorate Degree from Albright College (Reading, Pennsylvania).

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