*** Welcome to piglix ***

John Wulp

John Wulp
Born May 31, 1928
Nationality  United States
Known for Scenic Design, Producer, Director
Notable work Dracula
The Crucifer of Blood
Passione
Bosoms and Neglect
Awards Tony Award for Best Revival
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design
OBIE Award
Outer Circle Critics Award
Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award

John Wulp (born May 31, 1928) is an American scenic designer, producer, director and artist.

Wulp's first play, The Saintliness of Margery Kempe, won a Rockefeller Grant and was produced at the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 19, 1957. Wulp also won an OBIE Award for his direction of the 1961 stage play Red Eye of Love by playwright Arnold Weinstein. A musical adaptation of the play, with lyrics and libretto by Wulp and Weinstein, and music by Sam Davis, first premiered on Wulp's hometown island of North Haven, Maine before opening at the O'Neill Center in 2007. On September 4, 2014 Red Eye of Love the Musical opened Off-Broadway at the Amas Musical Theater in New York City.

Wulp won a Tony Award for Best Revival for his production of Dracula in 1978, which starred Frank Langella, with set designs by Edward Gorey, and opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on October 20, 1977. He received a Tony Award nomination and also won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for the 1979 production of The Crucifer of Blood. Wulp later went on to win an Outer Circle Critics Award and a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award when the play was performed at the Royal Haymarket Theatre in London and at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles. His other Broadway credits include Passione, Bosoms and Neglect, and Gorey Stories.


...
Wikipedia

...