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Santo Loquasto Biography (1944-)

Born July 26, 1944, in Wilkes-Barre, PA; father, a vendor of cooking utensils; mother's name, Ruth (an operator of a cocktail lounge). Addresses: Office: c/o United Scenic Artists, 1540 Broadway, New York, NY 10036.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Set designer, costume designer

Birth Details

July 26, 1944

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Work
• Set and Costume Designer
• Flower Festival in Genzano (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Theatre Workshop, Lisner Auditorium, Washington, DC, 1963
• A Delicate Balance, Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, CT, 1969
• The Farce of Scapin, Hartford Stage Company, 1969
• Anything Goes, Hartford Stage Company, 1970
• Misalliance, Hartford Stage Company, 1970
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Hartford Stage Company, 1970
• The Story Theatre (included "Gimpel the Fool," "St. Julian the Hospitaler," and "Olympian Games"), Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1970
• The Trial of A. Lincoln, Hartford Stage Company, 1970
• Henry V, Hartford Stage Company, 1971
• A Long Day's Journey into Night, Hartford Stage Company, 1971
• The Little Mahogonny and The Seven Deadly Sins (double-bill), Yale Repertory Theatre, 1971, then 1972
• La Dafne (opera), New York Pro Musica, Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, 1973
• Sephardic Song (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, New York City, 1974
• The Tempest, New York Shakespeare Festival, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, New York City, 1974
• The Cherry Orchard, New York Shakespeare Festival, Vivian BeaumontTheatre, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1977
• Golda, Morosco Theatre, New York City, 1977
• Landscape of the Body, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, New York City, 1977
• Miss Margarida's Way, Ambassador Theatre, New York City, 1977
• Curse of the Starving Class, New York Shakespeare Festival, Estelle R. Newman Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1978
• Don Quixote (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, Opera House, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 1978
• Stop the World--I Want to Get Off, New York State Theatre, New York City, 1978
• Sarava, Broadway Theatre, New York City, 1979
• Raymonda (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, John F. Kennedy Centerfor the Performing Arts, 1980
• The Suicide, American National Theatre and Academy Theatre, New York City, 1980
• Baker's Dozen (ballet), Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation, Los AngelesMusic Center, Los Angeles, 1981
• Crossing Niagara, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1981
• The Floating Light Bulb, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center,1981
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York City, 1981
• Short Stories (ballet), Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation, Los AngelesMusic Center, 1981
• Clair de Lune (ballet), Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, 1982
• The Tempest, Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 1982
• America Kicks Up Its Heels, Playwrights' Horizons Theatre, New York City, 1983
• The Glass Menagerie, Hartford Stage Company, 1983
• King Richard III, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City, 1983
• Uncle Vanya, Annex Theatre, La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, NewYork City, 1983
• Field, Chair, and Mountain (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, JohnF. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1984
• Virginia, New York Shakespeare Festival, Estelle R. Newman Theatre, Public Theatre, 1985
• The Informer (ballet), Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1988
• Bum's Rush (ballet), Civic Opera House (Chicago, IL), 1989
• Cafe Crown, New York Shakespeare Festival, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1989
• Everlast (ballet), War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA, 1989
• Pastorale, National Ballet of Canada, 1990
• Lost in Yonkers, Richard Rodgers Theatre, New York City, 1991-1993, then Strand Theatre, London, 1993
• Jake's Women, Neil Simon Theatre, New York City, 1992
• The Goodbye Girl, Marquis Theatre, New York City, 1993
• Broken Glass, Booth Theatre, New York City, 1994
• Three Sisters, Goodman Theatre, Chicago, 1994
• Barrymore, Music Box Theatre, New York City, 1997
• Fuddy Meers, Stage II, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1999-2000, then Minetta Lane Theatre, New York City, 2000
• Fosse, Broadhurst Theatre, New York City, 1999-2001
• Arabesque (ballet), Paul Taylor Dance Company, City Center Theatre, New York City, 2000
• Cascade (ballet), Paul Taylor Dance Company, City Center Theatre,2000
• Frequent Phoenixes (ballet), National Ballet of Canada, Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2000
• Dance of Death, Broadhurst Theatre, 2001
• The Elephant Man, Royale Theatre, New York City, 2002
• Set Designer Only
• The Hostage, Hartford Stage Company, Hartford, CT, 1968
• The Rose Tattoo, Hartford Stage Company, 1968
• Tiny Alice, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1968
• The Bacchae, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, 1969
• Hedda Gabler, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA, 1969
• The Homecoming, Hartford Stage Company, 1969
• Narrow Road to the Deep North, Charles Playhouse, Boston, MA, 1969
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Williamstown Theatre Festival, 1969
• Tartuffe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, 1969
• The Waltz Invention, Hartford Stage Company, 1969
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Hartford Stage Company, 1970
• Ring 'round the Moon, Hartford Stage Company, 1970
• Three Philip Roth Stories (included "Cops and Horrors" and "The Revenger's Tragedy"), Yale Repertory Theatre, 1970
• The Unseen Hand and Forensic and the Navigators (double-bill), Astor Place Theatre, New York City, 1970
• A Gun Play, Hartford Stage Company, 1971
• Pantagleize, Arena Stage, Washington, DC, 1971
• The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Arena Stage, 1971
• Wipe-out Games, Arena Stage, 1971
• The House of Blue Leaves, Arena Stage, 1972
• Old Times, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1972
• The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild, Ambassador Theatre, New York City, 1972
• Sticks and Bones, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, New York City, 1971, then John Golden Theatre, New York City, 1972
• Sunset, Chelsea Theatre Center, New York City, 1972
• Uptight, Arena Stage, 1972
• That Championship Season, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1972, then Booth Theatre, New York City, 1972-1974, later Garrick Theatre, London, 1974
• As You Like It, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre,New York City, 1973
• Boom Boom Room, New York Shakespeare Festival, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1973
• King Lear, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1973
• The Orphan, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1973
• A Public Prosecutor Is Sick of It All, Arena Stage, 1973
• Siamese Connections, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, 1973
• The Cherry Orchard, Hartford Stage Company, 1974
• The Dance of Death, New York Shakespeare Festival, Vivian BeaumontTheatre, Lincoln Center, 1974
• King Richard III, New York Shakespeare Festival, Mitzi E. NewhouseTheatre, New York City, 1974
• Macbeth, New York Shakespeare Festival, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre,1974
• The Merry Wives of Windsor, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1974
• Mert and Phil, New York Shakespeare Festival, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, 1974
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre, New York Shakespeare Festival, DelacorteTheatre, 1974
• What the Wine-Sellers Buy, New York Shakespeare Festival, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, 1974
• The Comedy of Errors, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1975
• A Doll's House, New York Shakespeare Festival, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, 1975
• Hamlet, New York Shakespeare Festival, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, 1975
• Kennedy's Children, John Golden Theatre, 1975
• A Midsummer Night's Dream, New York Shakespeare Festival, Mitzi E.Newhouse Theatre, 1975
• Murderer among Friends, Biltmore Theatre, New York City, 1975
• The Glass Menagerie, Hartford Stage Company, 1976
• Legend, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, 1976
• Measure for Measure, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, 1976
• American Buffalo, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 1977
• Heartbreak House, Arena Stage, 1977
• The Lower Depths, Arena Stage, 1977
• The Threepenny Opera, 1977
• King of Hearts, Minskoff Theatre, New York City, 1978
• The Mighty Gents, Ambassador Theatre, New York City, 1978
• The Play's the Thing, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York City, 1978
• The Goodbye People, Belasco Theatre, New York City, 1979
• Bent, New Apollo Theatre, New York City, 1979-1980
• The Member of the Wedding, Hartford Stage Company, 1980
• Theme and Variations, American Ballet Theatre, New York City, 1981
• Field, Chair, and Mountain, American Ballet Theatre, 1982
• Gardenia, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1982
• Happily Ever After, Joffrey Ballet, New York City, 1982
• The Wake of Jamey Foster, Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York City, 1982
• Little Malcolm and His Struggle against the Eunuchs, Yale Experimental Theatre, New Haven, 1983
• The Three Sisters, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1983
• California Dog Fight, Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club, Space at City Center Theatre, New York City, 1985
• In Trousers, Promenade Theatre, New York City, 1985
• Singin' in the Rain, Gershwin Theatre, New York City, 1985-1986
• Heart of the Matter, Joffrey Ballet, 1986
• Sweet Sue, Music Box Theatre, New York City, 1987
• The Film Society, Second Stage Theatre Company, McGinn-Cazale Theatre, New York City, 1988
• Italian American Reconciliation, Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club,1988, then Eastern Standard Golden Theatre, New York City, 1988
• The Rimers of Eldritch, Second Stage Theatre Company, McGinn-Cazale Theatre, 1988
• The Secret Rapture, Public Theatre, then Ethel Barrymore Theatre,1989
• The Tenth Man, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, 1989-1990
• Beggars in a House of Plenty, Stage II, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1991
• Four Dogs and a Bone, Stage II, Manhattan Theatre Club, then Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York City, 1993-1994
• The Loman Family Picnic, Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1993-1994
• A Month in the Country, Roundabout Theatre Company, Criterion Center Stage Right, New York City, 1995
• New England, Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1995
• The Rose Tattoo, Circle in the Square Uptown, New York City, 1995
• Dark Rapture, Second Stage Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, NewYork City, 1996
• Papa, Douglas Fairbanks Theatre, New York City, 1996
• Nine Armenians, Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1996-1997
• Eyes for Consuela, Stage II, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1998
• Mizlanksy/Zalinsky, or "Schmuks," Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club,1998
• La Terrasse, Stage II, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1999
• The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Stage I, Manhattan Theatre Club,2000, then Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, later Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 2000-2002
• Blur, Stage II, Manhattan Theatre Club, 2001
• Movin' Out (musical), Shubert Theatre, Chicago, IL, 2002
• Set designer for Loose Knit, McGinn-Cazale Theatre, and for the ballet Uncle Vanya. Scenic consultant for the production Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo, Estelle R. Newman Theatre, Public Theatre, New York City.
• Costume Designer Only
• Sylvia Pas de deux (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, Teatro Municipal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964
• Concerto (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, Civic Center, Jacksonville, FL, 1967
• Push Comes to Shove and Other Dances (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, New York City, 1967
• The Skin of Our Teeth, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1970
• Once More, Frank (ballet), New York State Theatre, New York City,1976
• Other Dances (ballet), Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, 1976
• Push Comes to Shove and Other Dances (ballet), Uris Theatre, New York City, 1976
• Agamemnon, New York Shakespeare Festival, Vivian Beaumont Theatre,Lincoln Center, New York City, 1977
• Ice Dancing, Felt Forum, then Minskoff Theatre, both New York City, 1978
• Pas d'esclave (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 1980
• Jardin Anime (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, Metropolitan OperaHouse, 1981
• Harlequinade (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, Mann Music Center,Philadelphia, PA, 1982
• Bach Partita (ballet), John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1983
• Follow the Feet (ballet), John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1983
• Once upon a Time (also known as The Little Ballet), Northrup Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN, 1983
• In a Country Garden (ballet), American Ballet Theatre, Miami BeachTheatre of the Performing Arts, Miami Beach, FL, 1984
• Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes (ballet), Metropolitan Opera House, 1988
• La Salle des Pas Perdus, Les Grand Ballet Canadiens, 1988
• Grand Hotel, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, 1989
• Quartet (ballet), Jackie Gleason Theatre of the Performing Arts, Miami Beach, 1989
• Miss Margarida's Way, Helen Hayes Theatre, New York City, 1990
• Americans We (ballet), Metropolitan Opera House, 1995
• Deja Revue, McGinn-Cazale Theatre, New York City, 1995
• Ragtime: The Musical, Ford Center for the Performing Arts, New York City, 1997-2000
• Tharp Keeps Company (ballet), Page Auditorium, American Dance Festival, Durham, NC, 2000
• Also designed costumes for productions of the ballets The Guards of Amager and Rodeo.
• Major Tours
• Work
• (Costume designer) Grand Hotel, 1990-1991
• Film Work
• Production Designer
• Rancho Deluxe, United Artists, 1975
• Stop the World--I Want to Get Off (also known as Sammy Stops the World), Special Events Entertainment, 1979
• Simon, Warner Bros., 1980
• Stardust Memories, United Artists, 1980
• The Fan, Paramount, 1981
• So Fine, Warner Bros., 1981
• A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Orion, 1982
• Zelig, Orion, 1983
• Falling in Love, Paramount, 1984
• Desperately Seeking Susan, Orion, 1985
• Radio Days, Orion, 1986
• September, Orion, 1987
• Another Woman, Orion, 1988
• Big, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1988
• Bright Lights, Big City, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1988
• Crimes and Misdemeanors, Orion, 1989
• "Oedipus Wrecks," New York Stories, Buena Vista, 1989
• She-Devil, Orion, 1989
• Alice, Orion, 1990
• Husbands and Wives, TriStar, 1992
• Shadows and Fog, Orion, 1992
• Manhattan Murder Mystery, TriStar, 1993
• Bullets over Broadway, Miramax, 1994
• Mighty Aphrodite, Miramax, 1995
• Everyone Says I Love You, Miramax, 1996
• Deconstructing Harry, Fine Line, 1997
• Celebrity, Miramax, 1998
• Sweet and Lowdown, Sony Pictures Classics, 1999
• Small Time Crooks, DreamWorks, 2000
• Curse of the Jade Scorpion (also known as Im Bann des Jade Skorpions), DreamWorks, 2001
• Anything Else, DreamWorks, 2002
• Hollywood Ending, DreamWorks, 2002
• Costume Designer
• (And set decorator) Stop the World--I Want to Get Off (also knownas Sammy Stops the World), Special Events Entertainment, 1979
• Simon, Warner Bros., 1980
• Stardust Memories, United Artists, 1980
• A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Orion, 1982
• Zelig, Orion, 1983
• Desperately Seeking Susan, Orion, 1985
• Television Work
• Series
• (Production designer) Tribeca, Fox, 1993
• Specials
• (Production designer) King Lear, 1977
• (Costume designer) "The Little Ballet" and "Push Comes to Shove," Baryshnikov by Tharp with the American Ballet, PBS, 1984
• (Production designer and creator) "Paul Taylor's Speaking in Tongues," Dance in America (also known as Great Performances), PBS, 1991
• (Designer) A Renaissance Revisited, PBS, 1996
• (Production designer) The Wrecker's Ball: Three Dances by Paul Taylor, PBS, 1996
• (Costume designer) Creating "Ragtime," PBS, 1998
• (Costume designer) Variety & Virtuosity: American Ballet Theatre Now, PBS, 1998
• (Production designer and costume designer) Fosse, 2001
• (Set and costume designer) From Broadway: Fosse, PBS, 2002
• Movies
• (Production designer) Don't Drink the Water, ABC, 1994
• Television Appearances
• Specials
• The 43rd Annual Tony Awards, CBS, 1988
• Broadway '98: Launching the Tony Awards, PBS, 1998

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

• Contemporary Designers, 3rd edition, St. James Press, 1997
• International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, Volume 4: Writers and Production Artists, St. James Press, 1996

Periodicals

• TCI, April, 1998, pp. 41-46
• Theatre Crafts, May, 1987, p. 33