Tony-Winning Production Designer Derek McLane Nominated for Two Art Directors Guild Awards

Tony-and Emmy Award-winning production designer Derek McLane has received two nominations for this year's 19th annual Excellence in Production Design Awards. McLane will compete against himself in the Awards or Event Special category with his designs for the "86th Annual Academy Awards" and "Peter Pan Live!" The awards will be presented on January 31 from the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, with comedian Owen Benjamin as host.

McLane is currently represented in New York by his sets for the musicals Beautiful: The Carole King Musical starring Jessie Mueller on Broadway, and Fiasco Theater's reimagining of Into the Woods, presented Off-Broadway by Roundabout Theatre Company..

Derek McLane has designed over 300 productions at theatres throughout the United States and around the world, for Broadway, Off Broadway, and major live television. Most recently, McLane won an Emmy for his design for the 2014 Oscars. His design for Beautiful, the Carole King Musical will open on the West End this winter. Broadway: Selected credits include: Beautiful, The Heiress, Nice Work If You Can Get It, The Best Man, Follies, Anything Goes, How to Succeed in Business..., Bengal Tiger in the Baghdad Zoo...., Million Dollar Quartet, Ragtime,33 Variations (Tony Award, Best Scenic Design), Grease, Little Women, The Pajama Game; I Am My Own Wife; The Women; Present Laughter. Off-Broadway: The Money Shot, Burning, The Last Five Years, Ruined, Lie of the Mind, Marie and Bruce, Starry Messenger, The Voysey Inheritance, Two Trains Running, Macbeth(Shakespeare in the Park), Hurlyburly, Abigail's Party, Aunt Dan and Lemon, and many others. Opera and theatre designs in London, Paris, Dublin, Glasgow, Moscow, Krakow, Sydney, Caracas and Warsaw. AWARDS: Winner of 1997, 2004 OBIE Awards, 2004, 2005, 2007 Lucille Lortel Awards; 2009 Tony Award, 2011 Drama Desk Award, 2014 Emmy Award.

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