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RACE, the new play written and directed by David Mamet, is proud to announce its award winning design team: set designer Santo Loquasto, lighting designer Brian MacDevitt and costume designer Tom Broecker.
RACE, starring James Spader, David Alan Grier, Kerry Washington, and Richard Thomas, will start rehearsals on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009. It will begin its engagement at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre (located at 243 West 47th St.) on Monday, November 16th at 8pm, with the official opening night on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 8pm.
RACE will be produced by Jeffrey Richards, Jerry Frankel & Steve Traxler, who previously collaborated together on David Mamet's Speed-The-Plow, Glengarry GLen Ross, and November.
Santo Loquasto (Scenic Designer) is widely known as a designer for theatre, film and dance. His work in the New York theatre won him both Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his set design of Café Crown in 1989 and for his costume designs for The Cherry Orchard in 1977 and Grand Hotel in 1990. Most recently he received a Drama Desk Award for his set design for Glengarry GLen Ross in 2005. Other awards include an Obie, a Joseph Maharam Award and Outer Critic's Circle Awards. He received Tony nominations for set designs for That Championship Season, What The Wine Cellars Buy, The Cherry Orchard, American Buffalo, The Suicide, Ragtime, and Fosse and more recently Long Day's Journey Into Night And Glengarry GLen Ross. He has also designed sets for Broadway for A Touch Of The Poet, Three Days Of Rain, Prelude To A Kiss, A Man For All Seasons and Waiting For Godot. He designed sets and costumes for Inherit The Wind and 110 In The Shade. He has worked with Woody Allen on over 22 films. His costume designs for Allen's Zelig and production designs for Radio Days and Bullets Over Broadway received Academy Award nominations. He has worked with most major international dance companies and has collaborated with Mark Morris, Jerome Robbins, Glen Tetley, Helgi Tomasson, Agnes De Mille, James Kudelka, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dana Reitz, Twyla Tharp and Paul Taylor. For the Metropolitan Opera he designed sets and costumes for Salome, Faust and Luisa Miller.
Brian MacDevitt (Lighting Designer) Recent NYC: Blithe Spirit, You're Welcome America..., Dr. Atomic at the Met, Speed-the-Plow, 13 a New Musical, American Buffalo, Puncture at the Chocolate Factory, A Catered Affair, The Coast of Utopia Part I, Inherit the Wind, The Pillowman, The Color Purple, et al. Future: Merce Cunningham at BAM. Dance: Nancy Bannon's The Pod Project, the Joffrey Ballet, ABT, 25 yrs. w/ Tere O'Connor Dance, Lar Lubovitch. Recipient: Tonys, Obie, Bessie, Outer Critics, Hewes Awards, Drama Desk, et al. Film: Cradle Will Rock. Faculty: Purchase College. Member: Naked Angels. Father: Jake and Georgie.
Tom Broecker (Costume Design) recently designed Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America... on Broadway, Everyday Rapture and Good Boys and True (Second Stage), and Streamers (Roundabout/Huntington) as well as the London and Broadway productions of Side Man. Tom has designed in dozens of theatres across the country including MTC, the Public, Playwrights Horizons, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Hartford Stage, McCarter Theatre, Yale Rep., Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC, Indiana Rep., Center Stage, Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Williamstown. TV: pilot of "Castle" for ABC, "Saturday Night Live" (five Emmy noms.), HBO's "The Comeback," "30 Rock." Upcoming: The Understudy at the Roundabout Theatre Company.
