Brill, Robert

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Brill, Robert

PERSONAL

Married Loretta Greco (a director and artistic director); children: Sophia.

Career:

Set designer and production designer. Sledgehammer Theatre, San Diego, CA, founding member. Designer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus as well as for various museums and organizations. Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, lecturer in theatre and dance.

Awards, Honors:

Jeff Award, Joseph Jefferson awards Committee, c. 1994, for A Clockwork Orange; Drama Desk Award nomination, outstanding set design of a play, 1997, for The Rehearsal; Drama Desk Award nomination, outstanding set design of a musical, 1998, for Cabaret; Lortel Award (with Scott Pask), outstanding set design, League of Off-Broadway Theatres and Producers, and Henry Hewes Design Award, scenic design, both 1999, for The Mineola Twins; Michael Merritt Award, 2004, for excellence in design and collaboration; Antoinette Perry Award nomination, best scenic design, and Drama Desk Award nomination, outstanding set design of a musical, both 2004, for Assassins; Drama Desk Award nomination, outstanding set design of a play, 2005, for A Streetcar Named Desire.

CREDITS

Stage Set Designer:

Fortinbras, La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA, 1991.

Twilight: Los Angeles (also known as Anna Deavere Smith's "Twilight: Los Angeles"), Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Form, Los Angeles, and McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ, 1992.

A Clockwork Orange, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Mainstage Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1994.

The Good Person of Setzuan, La Jolla Playhouse, 1994.

East of Eden (also known as John Steinbeck's "East of Eden"), The Western Stage, c. 1994.

Buried Child, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Mainstage Theatre, 1995, and Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1996.

Blue Window, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1996.

Greensboro: A Requiem (also known as Betrayal and Greensboro), McCarter Theatre, 1996.

A Park in Our House, New York Theatre Workshop, New York City, 1996.

The House of Martin Guerre (musical), Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL, 1996, and Canadian Stage Company, Bluma Appel Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1997.

The Rehearsal, Criterion Center Stage Right, New York City, 1996-97.

The Batting Cage, Vineyard Theatre, New York City, 1997.

God's Heart, Lincoln Center, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, New York City, 1997.

Having Our Say, La Jolla Playhouse, Mandell Weiss Forum, La Jolla, CA, 1997.

An American in Paris (ballet), Boston Ballet, Wang Theatre, Boston, MA, 1998.

Lillian, Playwrights Horizons, New York City, 1998.

Cabaret (musical), Kit Kat Club, New York City, 1998, and Studio 54, New York City, 1998-2004.

The First Picture Show (musical), American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, CA, and Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum, both 1999.

(With Scott Pask) The Mineola Twins, Laura Pels Theatre, New York City, 1999.

Another American: Asking and Telling (solo show), The New Group, Theatre at St. Clement's, New York City, 1999-2000.

Two Sisters and a Piano, New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York City, 2000.

The Laramie Project, Denver Theatre Center, Denver, CO, 2000, Union Square Theatre, New York City, 2000, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Berkeley, CA, 2001, and La Jolla Playhouse, 2001.

Design for Living, American Airlines Theatre, New York City, 2001.

Kimberly Akimbo, South Coast Repertory, Costa Mesa, CA, 2001.

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Royale Theatre, New York City, 2001.

Assassins, Music Box Theatre, New York City, beginning 2001.

Humpty Dumpty, McCarter Theatre, 2002.

Kept (musical), Mountain View Center for the Arts, Mountain View, CA, 2002.

Monster, Classic Stage Company, New York City, 2002.

Tartuffe, La Jolla Playhouse, 2002.

Blue/Orange, Atlantic Theater Company, New York City, 2002-2003.

Tuesdays with Morrie, Minetta Theatre, New York City, 2002-2003.

Kimberly Akimbo, Manhattan Theatre Club, 2003.

Sinatra: His Voice. His World. His Way. (also known as Sinatra), Radio City Music Hall, New York City, 2003.

The Story, New York Shakespeare Festival, Joseph Papp Public Theater, 2003.

Anna in the Tropics, Royale Theatre, 2003-2004.

Eve Ensler's "The Good Body" (solo show; also known as The Good Body), American Conservatory Theater, Geary Theater, San Francisco, CA, and Booth Theatre, New York City, both 2004.

L'incoronazione di Poppea (opera; also known as The Coronation of Poppea), Chicago Opera Theater, Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago, IL, 2004.

Laugh Whore (solo show; also known as Mario Cantone: Laugh Whore), Cort Theatre, New York City, 2004-2005.

Dollhouse, Goodman Theatre, 2005.

Inky, Women's Project and Productions, New York City, 2005.

Romance, Atlantic Theater Company, New York City, 2005.

A Streetcar Named Desire, Studio 54, 2005.

Blackbird, American Conservatory Theater, 2007.

Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen, Women's Project and Productions, Julia Miles Theater, New York City, 2007.

Wozzeck (opera), San Diego Opera, San Diego, CA, 2007.

Parlour Song, Atlantic Theater Company, New York City, 2008.

Set designer for La boheme (opera), Minnesota Opera. Designer of other productions at other venues, including the Cleveland Play House, Huntington Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Roundabout Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and the Tyrone Guthrie Theater.