PETER NIGRINI (Designer) Peter Nigrini has been a pioneer in the integration of digital media and live performance for the past 20 years. In the theater, his designs include the Tony Award winning, Dear Evan Hansen; Beetlejuice; Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations; David Byrne’s Here Lies Love; Fela!, a musical about Nigerian pop star and political activist Fela Kuti; Grounded directed by Julie Taymor for The Public Theater; and a series of adaptations with Robert Woodruff including Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground, Bergman’s Autumn Sonata, and Fassbinder’s In A Year of Thirteen Moons. He has been nominated for two Tony Awards.

His work spans multiple disciplines and genres, including Real Enemies, a multi-media piece conceived with Darcy James Argue and Isaac Butler for jazz ensemble The Secrete Society at BAM; the Grace Jones Hurricane Tour; Blind Date, an evening long dance piece for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance; and a decade-long collaboration with Nature Theater of Oklahoma, for which he designed every aspect of their productions No Dice, Romeo and Juliet, and Life & Times. He is currently designing a world tour for Hans Zimmer, and Lempicka, an new musical directed by Rachel Chavkin exploring the extraordinary life of Tamara de Lempicka.