Heidi Ettinger

Heidi Ettinger (married name Landesman) is an American theatre producer and set designer. She studied at Occidental College and the Yale School of Drama. She was the first woman to win a Tony Award for set design, which she won for the musical Big River. She has also won the Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle awards and an Obie Award.

She has designed the sets for many Broadway productions, starting with 'night, Mother in 1983, and including Big River (1985), The Secret Garden (1991), and Good Vibrations in 2005. Of her sets for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the CurtainUp reviewer wrote: "The best starting point for what's right and wrong with 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer', the new musical based on Mark Twain's novel, are Heidi Ettinger's sets. Ettinger, who also worked on 'Big River', ... has given the town of St. Petersburg, Mo. the look of a colorful three-dimensional folk art painting or quilt."

She designed the sets for Triumph of Love in 1997, and The Sound of Music revival also in 1997. In an article in The New York Times, the writer observed "If there is an Ettinger trademark linking all her designs, it's that there is no trademark. 'I never do the same thing twice,' she [Ettinger] said."

She has designed for many Off-Broadway productions, starting with The Vienna Notes by Richard Nelson at Playwrights Horizons in 1979 and more recently Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein at Second Stage Theatre in 1994.

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