Updated Resume
Mr. Wierzel has worked with artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds in theatre, dance, new music, museums and opera on stages throughout the country and abroad. OPERA: includes productions with the companies of Paris, Tokyo, Toronto, Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, Minnesota, Virginia, Chicago Lyric, Chicago Opera Theatre, Florida Grand, Washington, Glimmerglass and N.Y.C.O. REGIONAL: includes productions at Arena Stage, A.C.T. San Francisco, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Chicago Shakespeare, Hartford Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, Long Wharf, Goodman Theatre, Yale Rep, California Shakespeare, The Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum and Berkeley Rep, among many others. DANCE: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., Doug Varone, Donna Uchizono, Sean Curran, Alonzo King, Lyon Washington DC; Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Shakespeare Theatre DC; Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre; Goodman Theatre; The Guthrie; Mark Taper Forum; Geva Theatre; Actors Theatre/Louisville; Old Globe/San Diego; Laguna Playhouse; Yale Rep and the Berkley Rep, among many others.
His Dance collaborations include works with choreographers Doug Varone; Larry Goldhuber and Heidi Latsky (Worse Case Scenario-Bessie Award); Sean Curran; Molissa Fenely; Donna Uchizono; Alonzo King; Charlie Moulton; Arthur Aviles; Margo Sappington; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and Trisha Brown Dance Company.
In addition, he has designed the lighting for selected art exhibitions at museums around the country, including the Red Grooms installation at Grand Central Station; at the Yale Art Gallery- Baule: African Art, Western Eyes and Love & Loss: American Portrait And Mourning Miniatures; To Know the Dark; Making It New-The Art & Style of Sara & Gerald Murphy, among others, and The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-1950, the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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HOPPING FOR INSPIRATION An African market in Harlem provided fabric and ideas for Marina Draghici, a set and costume designer. Two of her recent projects include the Broadway play “Fela!” and the movie “Precious.” More Photos >
Published: December 16, 2009
IF you plan on conjuring up a 1970s dance club in Lagos, Nigeria, on Broadway, a fine place to start is a patch of Africa tucked along a Harlem cross street. Through a cheap pastel archway on West 116th Street stands the Malcolm Shabazz Market, better known as the African market. Read the article New York Times Article, Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Susan Hamburger
- Lighting Designer
Susan Hamburger is a New York City based Lighting Designer. She
has worked extensively in live theater with such notable artists as Craig
Harris, Lucinda Childs, Shirin Neshat, Philip Glass, Mark Rucker, and numerous
dance companies including the Bessie Award winning Urban Bush Women and Bessie
winner Nora Chipaumire. Other notable dance companies include Troika Ranch, Blondell
Cummings, Urban Tap, Ellis Wood, Alice Farley, Chrisopher Caines, Susan
Chirniak, Carol Nolte and David Parker and The Bang Group among others. She has
also designed The Abundance Project,
Hamletmachine, Logic of the Birds, On The Verge, A Child's Christmas in Wales,
Little Shop Of Horrors, Suddenly Last Summer, The Great Highway, West Side
Story, The Cryptogram, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Waiting for Godot and Mame, as well as many other original
plays and performance pieces.
Susan Hamburger has also expanded into architectural and
residential/commercial lighting design.
Recent projects include a retail children’s clothing store, a physical
therapy studio and an extensive remodeling of a Greenwich Village
brownstone. Upcoming residential/commercial
projects include a Soho Corporate Office,
Tribecca loft and flexible use television interview studio for a New
York not-for profit. Susan is a graduate of Yale School of Drama, and teaches
at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Dance department. www.susanhamburger.com