John Conklin (born June 22, 1937) is a theater designer and teaches in the Department of Design for Stage and Film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Production Designer, Costume Designer, Art Department
Education
Yale University
Awards
Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Set Design, Resident Production
Nominations
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design
Star Sign
Cancer
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Fact
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He was awarded the 1992 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for "Angels in America" Part One "Millennium Approaches" and Part Two: "Perestroika" in a Gordon Davidson/Mark Taper Forum production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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He was awarded the 1981 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Costume Design for "Chekhov in Yalta" at the Mark Taper Forum Theater in Los Angeles, California.
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He was nominated for a 1991 Joseph Jefferson Award for Scenic Design for "Candida", at the Court Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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He was awarded the 1991 Joseph Jefferson Award for Scenic Design for "The Iceman Cometh", at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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He was nominated for a 1988 Joseph Jefferson Award for Scenic Design for "Passion Play", at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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Was nominated for Broadway's 1974 Tony Award as Best Scenic Designer for "The Au Pair Man."
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American stage designer, both for opera and for the theatre, he has designed for the Metropolitan, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, the Opera Theatre of St Louis, Glimmerglass Opera and Seattle Opera, and others. Conklin is professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Production Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Carmen
1999
TV Movie
Live from Lincoln Center
1978-1999
TV Series 2 episodes
The Ghosts of Versailles
1992
TV Movie
The Metropolitan Opera Presents
1990
TV Series 1 episode
Bully: An Adventure with Teddy Roosevelt
1978
Costume Designer
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Ghosts of Versailles
1992
TV Movie
Great Performances
1989
TV Series 1 episode
Live from Lincoln Center
1978
TV Series 1 episode
Bully: An Adventure with Teddy Roosevelt
1978
Art Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Great Performances
1989
TV Series art department - 1 episode
Known for movies
The Ghosts of Versailles (1992) as Production Designer
Bully: An Adventure with Teddy Roosevelt (1978) as Production Designer
Carmen (1999) as Production Designer
Live from Lincoln Center (1978-1999) as Production Designer
$4 Million
