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Loy Arcenas Biography (1953?-)

Born c. 1953 in the Philippines; son of a doctor and a banker.

Nationality

Philippine

Gender

Male

Occupation

Set designer

Birth Details

1953?

Philippines

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Stage Set Designer
• Take Death to Lunch, Impossible Ragtime Theatre, New York City, 1979
• The Barber of Seville, Soho Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1979
• When the War Was Over, Impossible Ragtime Theatre, 1980
• Vera, with Kate, Wonderhorse Theatre, New York City, 1980
• Murder in the Cathedral, St. Malachy's Theatrespace, New York City, 1981
• Redback, New York Theatre Studio, Studio One, American Musical andDrama Academy, New York City, 1981
• Cubisticue, New York Theatre Studio, Actors and Directors Theatre,New York City, 1981
• Finding Donis Anne, Ark Theatre Company, New York City, 1982
• The Quilling of Prue, New York Theatre Studio, Studio One, American Musical and Drama Academy, 1983
• (With Kalina Ivanov) Macbeth, Ark Theatre Company, 1983
• Dementos, Production Company, Theatre Guinevere, New York City, 1983
• Second Lady, Production Company, Theatre Guinevere, 1983
• Blue Window, Production Company, Theatre Guinevere, then Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, both 1984
• The Man Who Could See through Time, Ark Theatre Company, 1984
• Souvenirs, New York Theatre Workshop, Cubiculo Theatre, New York City, 1984
• Maneuvers, South Street Theatre, New York City, 1985
• Bosoms and Neglect, New York Theatre Workshop, Perry Street Theatre, New York City, 1986
• Dry Land, New Arts Theatre Company, Judith Anderson Theatre, New York City, 1986
• The Merchant of Venice, Classic Stage Company Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1986
• The Day Room, American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA, 1986
• The Real Thing, Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo, NY, 1986
• Three Postcards, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, New York City, thenSouth Coast Repertory Theatre, Costa Mesa, CA, both 1987
• The Cannibal Masaue/A Serpent's Egg, American Repertory Theatre, 1987
• Mrs. Sorken Presents, American Repertory Theatre, 1987
• The Birthday Party, Classic Stage Company Repertory Theatre, 1988
• The Debutante Ball, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1988
• Right behind the Flag, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, 1988
• Butterfly, Norma Terris Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam, CT, 1988
• Benefactors, Studio Arena Theatre, 1988
• Gilette, American Repertory Theatre, Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge,MA, 1988
• Reckless, Circle Repertory Theatre Company, New York City, 1988
• Prelude to a Kiss, South Coast Repertory Theatre, 1988, then Circle Repertory Theatre Company, 1989-1990, later Helen Hayes Theatre, New York City, 1990-1991
• The Glass Menagerie, Kreeger Theatre, Washington, DC, 1989
• Once on This Island, Playwrights Horizons Theatre, then Booth Theatre, New York City, 1990-1991
• El Dorado, South Coast Repertory Theatre, 1991
• The Extra Man, Stage II, City Center Theatre, New York City, 1992
• Three Hotels, Circle Repertory Theatre, 1993
• Face Value, Cort Theatre, New York City, 1993
• The Glass Menagerie, Stage Right, Criterion Theatre, New York City, 1994-1995
• Love! Valour! Compassion!, Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City, 1995
• Simpatico, Public Theatre, New York City, 1995
• The Night of the Iguana, Roundabout Theatre, Stage Right, Criterion Theatre, 1996
• High Society, St. James Theatre, New York City, 1998
• Y2K, Lucille Lortel Theatre, New York City, 1999
• Also designed sets for productions of Avenue X, Playwrights Horizons Theatre; The Baltimore Waltz; Blown Sideways through Life; Corpus Christi; Dogeaters; Indian Ink; The Invention of Love, American Conservatory Theatre; Spic-o-Rama; Spunk;and The Vagina Monologues.
• Stage Costume Designer
• Take Death to Lunch, Impossible Ragtime Theatre, New York City, 1979
• Murder in the Cathedral, St. Malachy's Theatrespace, New York City, 1981
• Stage Director
• The Colossus of Rhodes, American Conservatory Theatre, White BarnTheatre, Westport, CT, 2001
• Directed productions of Flipzoids, Swoony Planet, and The Theory of Everything, all for Ma-Yi Theatre Company, and Whirligig; associate director of The Golden Child, Seattle Repertory Theatre,Seattle, WA.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• New York Times, October 14, 1990