Douglas W. Schmidt Biography (1942-)

Full name, Douglas Wocher Schmidt; born October 4, 1942, in Cincinnati, OH; son of Robert Wocher (president of a surgical supply company) and Amy Jean (maiden name, Murdoch) Schmidt. Addresses: Office: Douglas W. Schmidt Studios, 9 Roosevelt Way, San Francisco, CA 94114-1286.; Agent: Helen Merrill Ltd., 337 West 22nd St., New York, NY 10011.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Set designer, costume designer
Birth Details: October 4, 1942; Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Designer
The Importance of Being Earnest, Monmouth Repertory Theatre, Monmouth, ME, 1961
The Devil's Disciple, Monmouth Repertory Theatre, 1961
Othello, Monmouth Repertory Theatre, 1961
Androcles and the Lion, Monmouth Repertory Theatre, 1961
The Caretaker, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati, OH, 1964
Ghosts, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1965
The Collection, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1965
The Lover, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1965
Major Barbara, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1965
The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1965
She Stoops to Conquer, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1965
The Glass Menagerie, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1965
Caesar and Cleopatra, Center Stage Theatre, Baltimore, MD, 1965
La Boheme, Juilliard Opera Theatre, New York City, 1965
Man and Superman, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1966
Benito Cereno, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1966
The American Dream, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1966
Charley's Aunt, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1966
Eh?, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1966
The Skin of Our Teeth, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1966
The Ox Cart, Greenwich Mews Theatre, New York City, 1966-1967
The Marriage of Figaro, Juilliard Opera Theatre, 1967
The Mines of Sulphur, Juilliard Opera Theatre, 1967
A Clearing in the Woods, Theatre at Riverside Church, New York City, 1967
The Importance of Being Earnest, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park,1967
To Bury a Cousin, Bouwerie Lane Theatre, New York City, 1967
The Cavern, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1967
King John, Delacorte Theatre, New York City, 1967
Anatol, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1967
Father Uxbridge Wants to Marry, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1967
The Entertainer, Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 1967
The Great White Hope, Arena Stage, Washington, DC, 1967
Silent Night, Lonely Night, Theatre at Riverside Church, 1968
Tonantzintla, Juilliard Theatre, 1968
Misalliance, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1968
The Memorandum, Public/Anspacher Theatre, New York City, 1968
Camino Real, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1968
The Madwoman of Chaillot, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, 1968
Huui, Huui, Public Theatre, New York City, 1968
Trainer, Dean, Liepolt and Co., American Place Theatre, 1968-1969
Geese (double bill; includes Geese and Parents and Children), American Place Theatre, 1969
Twelfth Night, Delacorte Theatre, 1969
La Pinata, Juilliard Theatre, 1969
The Inner Journey, Forum Theatre, New York City, 1969
Julius Caesar, Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, MN, 1969
The Homecoming, Tyrone Guthrie Theatre, 1969
The Time of Your Life, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York City, 1969
Paris Is Out!, Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1970
The Disintegration of James Cherry, Forum Theatre, New York City,1970
Operation Sidewinder, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 1970
Mod Donna, Public Theatre, 1970
The Good Woman of Setzuan, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 1970
Landscape and Silence (double bill), Forum Theatre, 1970 and 1971
The Playboy of the Western World, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 1971
An Enemy of the People, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 1971
The Losers, Juilliard Theatre, 1971
Pictures in the Hallway, Forum Theatre, 1971
Antigone, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 1971
Huckleberry Finn, Juilliard Theatre, 1971
Play Strindberg, Forum Theatre, 1971
The Merry Wives of Windsor, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre,Stratford, CT, 1971
Croquefer, Tanglewood Theatre, Lenox, MA, 1971
Mahagonny, Tanglewood Theatre, 1971, then John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Opera House, Washington, DC, 1972
Down by the Greenwood Side, Tanglewood Theatre, 1971
Socrates, Tanglewood Theatre, 1971
Aventures et nouvelles aventures, Tanglewood Theatre, 1971, then Circustheatre, Scheveningen, Netherlands, 1973
Mary Stuart, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 1971
The Country Girl, Eisenhower Theatre, Washington, DC, 1971, then Billy Rose Theatre, New York City, 1972
People Are Living There, Forum Theatre, 1971
The Wedding of Iphigenia and Iphigenia in Concert (double-bill), Martinson Hall, Public Theatre, New York City, 1971
Narrow Road to the Deep North, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 1972
The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks, American National Theatreand Academy Theatre, New York City, 1972
Grease, Eden Theatre, then Broadhurst Theatre, 1972, later RoyaleTheatre, New York City, 1972-1980, and Majestic Theatre, New York City, 1980
School for Scandal, Theatre at Good Shepherd-Faith Church, New York City, 1972
The Lower Depths, Theatre at Good Shepherd-Faith Church, 1972
Twelfth Night, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 1972
Suggs, Forum Theatre, 1972
Der Jasager, Tanglewood Theatre, 1972
Chocorua, Tanglewood Theatre, 1972
L'incoronazione di Poppaea, Tanglewood Theatre, 1972
Enemies, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 1972
And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Stockbridge, MA, 1972

Samuel Beckett Festival (includes Act without Words I, Happy Days, Krapp's Last Tape, and Not I), Forum Theatre, 1972
The Plough and the Stars, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 1973
Satyricon, Circustheatre, 1973
A Streetcar Named Desire, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, then St. JamesTheatre, New York City, 1973
Macbeth, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre, 1973
Measure for Measure, Saratoga Spa Theatre, Saratoga, NY, 1973, then Billy Rose Theatre, 1973-1974
The Three Sisters, Saratoga Spa Theatre, 1973, then Billy Rose Theatre, 1973-1974, later Harkness Theatre, New York City, 1975
A Breeze from the Gulf, Eastside Playhouse, New York City, 1973
Veronica's Room, Music Box Theatre, New York City, 1973
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Opera House, John F. Kennedy Centerfor the Performing Arts, 1974
An American Millionaire, Circle in the Square, New York City, 1974
Over Here!, Shubert Theatre, New York City, 1974-1975
Love's Labour's Lost, Saratoga Spa Theatre, 1974
Play, Saratoga Spa Theatre, 1974
Orchestra, Saratoga Spa Theatre, 1974
Edward II, Saratoga Spa Theatre, 1974, then Harkness Theatre, 1975-1976
The Taming of the Shrew, Art Park Theatre, Buffalo, NY, 1974
The Time of Your Life, Mendelssohn Theatre, Ann Arbor, MI, 1974, then Harkness Theatre, 1975
Fame, John Golden Theatre, New York City, 1974
Who's Who in Hell, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York City, 1974
Our Late Night, Public Theatre, 1975
Salome, New York City Opera, State Theatre, New York City, 1975
Kid Champion, Public/Anspacher Theatre, 1975
Truckload, Lyceum Theatre, New York City, 1975
The Robber Bridegroom, Harkness Theatre, 1975, then Biltmore Theatre, New York City, 1976-1977, later Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1977
Angel Street, Lyceum Theatre, 1975-1976
Let My People Come (revue), Morosco Theatre, New York City, 1976
Herzl, Palace Theatre, New York City, 1976
The Angle of Repose, San Francisco Opera Theatre, San Francisco, CA, 1976
Threepenny Opera, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, 1976, then Delacorte Theatre, 1977
The Crazy Locomotive, Theatre at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, then Theatre Four, New York City, 1977
Agamemnon, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, then Delacorte Theatre, 1977
The Dodge Boys, Hudson Guild Theatre, New York City, 1977
Sunset, Los Angeles, 1977
Stages, Belasco Theatre, New York City, 1978
Runaways, New York Shakespeare Festival, Plymouth Theatre, New York City, 1978
Alice, Forrest Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, 1978
They're Playing Our Song, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1978, then Imperial Theatre, New York City, 1979-1981
V.I.P. Night on Broadway (benefit performance), Shubert Theatre, New York City, 1979
Peter Allen "Up in One" (revue), Biltmore Theatre, 1979
The Most Happy Fella, Majestic Theatre, 1979
Romantic Comedy, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, 1979-1980
The American Clock, Harold Clurman Theatre, New York City, 1980
To Bury a Cousin, Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City, 1980
Samson and Delilah, San Francisco Opera Theatre, 1980
Really Rosie, Chelsea Theatre Center/Upstairs, New York City, 1980, then American Place Theatre, 1980-1981
Two Plays in Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, 1980-1981
Frankenstein, Palace Theatre, 1981
Aida, San Francisco Opera Theatre, 1981
Another Part of the Forest, Ahmanson Theatre, 1981-1982
The Death of Von Richtofen as Witnessed from Earth, New York Shakespeare Festival, Public/Newman Theatre, New York City, 1982
The Tempest, Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, CA, 1982-1983
Porgy and Bess, Theatre at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, 1983
Twelfth Night, Old Globe Theatre, 1983
The Skin of Our Teeth, New York City, 1983
Detective Story, Ahmanson Theatre, 1983-1984
Light Comedies, Ahmanson Theatre, 1983-1984, then Hartman Theatre,Stamford, CT, 1984-1985
The Genius, Mark Taper Forum, 1983-1984
Chaplin, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 1984
Black Comedy, New York City, 1984
The Loves of Don Pirlimpin, New York City, 1984
Scapino!, Old Globe Theatre, 1984-1985
Dancing in the End Zone, Ritz Theatre, New York City, 1985
Palladium Club Phase I, New York City, 1985
Legends!, Ahmanson Theatre, 1985-1986
Smile, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, 1986-1987
Light Up the Sky, Ahmanson Theatre, 1986-1987
Richard II, Old Globe Theatre, 1986-1987
Emily, Old Globe Theatre, 1986-1987
The Incredibly Famous Willy Rivers, Old Globe Theatre, 1986-1987
The Traveler, Mark Taper Forum, 1987
Faustus in Hell, American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, 1987
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Los Angeles Music Center Opera, WilternTheatre, Los Angeles, 1987
The Best Man, Ahmanson Theatre, 1987-1988
There's One in Every Marriage, Old Globe Theatre, 1987-1988
The Comedy of Errors, Old Globe Theatre, 1987-1988
80 Days, La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA, 1988
White Linen, Old Globe Theatre, 1988
Truffles in the Soup, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle, WA, 1988
Elvis: A Rockin' Remembrance, Beacon Theatre, New York City, 1989
Nick and Nora, Marriott Marquis Theatre, New York City, 1991
Damn Yankees, Old Globe Theatre, 1994, then Marriott Marquis Theatre, 1994-1995
The School for Scandal, Lyceum Theatre, 1995
The Doctor Is Out, Old Globe Theatre, 1995
Getting Away with Murder, Broadhurst Theatre, 1996
Band in Berlin, Helen Hayes Theatre, New York City, 1999
The Civil War, St. James Theatre, 1999
42nd Street, Ford Center for the Performing Arts, 2001-?
Into the Woods, Broadhurst Theatre, 2002-?
Stage Work
Costume Designer
Landscape and Silence (double bill), Forum Theatre, New York City, 1970 and 1971
The Playboy of the Western World, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, New York City, 1971
Pictures in the Hallway, Forum Theatre, 1971
Stage Manager
The Importance of Being Earnest, Monmouth Repertory Theatre, Monmouth, ME, 1961
Major Tours
Set Designer
The Ox Cart, Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, 1967
The School for Scandal, City Center Acting Company, U.S. cities, beginning 1972
The Hostage, City Center Acting Company, U.S. cities, beginning 1972
Women Beware Women, City Center Acting Company, U.S. cities, beginning 1972
The Lower Depths, City Center Acting Company, U.S. cities, beginning 1972
Grease, U.S. cities, 1972-1979, and Australian and British cities
They're Playing Our Song, U.S. cities, 1979-1982
Legends!, U.S. cities, 1986
Television Set Designer
Specials
"Antigone," Playhouse New York, PBS, 1972
"Enemies," Theatre in America, PBS, 1974
The Time of Your Life, PBS, 1976
"The Most Happy Fella," Great Performances, PBS, 1980
Samson and Delilah, PBS, 1981
"The Skin of Our Teeth," American Playhouse, PBS, 1983
"The Rise and Fall of Daniel Rocket," American Playhouse, PBS, 1986
Television Work
Specials
Art Director, "Wings," American Playhouse, PBS, 1983
Special effects designer, "The San Francisco Ballet in Cinderella," Great Performances: Dance in America, PBS, 1985
Art director, "Painting Churches," American Playhouse, PBS, 1986
Film Set Designer
The Fantasticks, 1995
WRITINGS
Books
Set designs represented in anthologies, including Stage Design since 1960, 1972, and Contemporary Stage Design, 1974.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Contemporary Designers, 3rd edition, St. James Press, 1997

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