SANTO LOQUASTO (Broadway and Tour Costume Designer) is an international designer for theatre, film, dance, and opera. He has received four Tony® Awards and has been nominated 24 times. In film, he has received three Academy Award nominations and has won a BAFTA for his work with Woody Allen with whom he has collaborated on more than 30 films. Other films include Desperately Seeking Susan and Penny Marshal’s Big. Among his 80 Broadway productions designing sets and/or costumes, most notable are: The Cherry Orchard at Lincoln Center, American Buffalo, Cafe Crown, Grand Hotel, Lost in Yonkers, Movin’ Out, Ragtime, Fences, The Assembled Parties, Hello, Dolly! with Bette Midler, The Iceman Cometh, The Music Man with Hugh Jackman, as well as eight Shakespearean plays at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, and numerous Off-Broadway productions at Manhattan Theatre Club, Atlantic Theater, Classic Stage Company and the New York Public Theater. He is currently represented on Broadway with sets for the George C. Wolfe production of Gypsy, with Audra McDonald. For the Metropolitan Opera he has designed both sets and costumes for Luisa Miller, Faust, Salome, and A View From the Bridge. Most recently The Marriage of Figaro at The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, and Gianni Schicchi at La Scala. He has worked with most major international dance companies, and has collaborated with Mark Morris, Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, Glen Tetley, John Cranko, Helgi Tomasson, Kenneth MacMillan, James Kudelka, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Twyla Tharp, and Paul Taylor. Loquasto received the Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration in 2002, was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2004, received the Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for the Arts in 2006, the Robert L.B. Tobin Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2007, The Gaudium Award in 2013, and USITT 
Distinguished Achievement Award in Scenic Design and Technology in 2017.