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2025-2026 Broadway Scorecards
We’re excited to launch our new Broadway Scorecards series for the 2025–2026 season. These scorecards track the Designers, Associates, and Assistants working across Broadway productions — highlighting the creative professionals behind this season’s shows and the productions they helped bring to life.
Each week, we’ll spotlight a different design discipline and recognize the artists whose work shaped the Broadway season.
In today’s newsletter, the focus is Scenic Design. This season, both David Korins and David Rockwell led the field with credits on three Broadway productions each — the highest total of any scenic designer during the 2025–2026 season.
The leading Associate Scenic Designers are Justin West, Frank McCullough, Richard Jaris, and TJ Greenway each with three Broadway show credits.
The leading Assistant Scenic Designers are Jessica Alexandra Cancino, Anton Volovsek, Henry Blazer, and Emmie Finckel each with two Broadway show credits.
Next week we are highlighting Broadway Costume Designers, Associates and Assistants!
Awards:
Announcing the 2026 Outer Critics Circle winners
Winners have been announced for the 2026 Outer Critics Circle Awards. Recognizing plays and musicals that opened on Broadway and Off-Broadway in the 2025-2026 season, awards are distributed to individuals and theatrical productions across 27 categories.
The ceremony celebrating the winners will be held on May 21 at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center (MMAC). The Outer Critics Circle was founded during the 1949-1950 Broadway season by theater journalist John Gassner. The association consists of members affiliated with more than 90 newspapers, magazines, broadcast stations and online news organizations in the U.S. and internationally.
Winners are noted in bold and with an asterisk.
Outstanding Scenic Design
James Fluhr, “Masquerade”
*Dane Laffrey, “The Lost Boys”
Scott Pask, “Schmigadoon!”
Adam Rigg and Anton Volovsek, “Bowl EP”
Jason Sherwood, “The Baker’s Wife”
Outstanding Costume Design
Dede Ayite, “Goddess”
*Linda Cho, “Schmigadoon!”
Jeff Mahshie, “Fallen Angels”
Ryan Park, “The Lost Boys”
Emilio Sosa, “Masquerade”
Outstanding Lighting Design
Mextly Couzin, “Mexodus”
Adam Honoré, “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
Jack Knowles, “Death of a Salesman”
*Jen Schriever and Michael Arden, “The Lost Boys”
Studio Luna, “Marcel on the Train”
Outstanding Sound Design
Caroline Eng, “The Unknown”
*Mikhail Fiksel, “Mexodus”
Adam Fisher, “The Lost Boys”
Brett Jarvis, “Masquerade”
Nick Kourtides, “Oratorio for Living Things”
Outstanding Video/Projection Design
*59 Studio, “Ragtime”
Akhila Krishnan, “Kyoto”
Derek McLane, “This World of Tomorrow”
Johnny Moreno, “Mexodus”
John Narun, “Bughouse”
The 70th Annual Drama Desk Awards
The 70th Annual Drama Desk Awards will take place on Sunday, May 17, 2026, at 7:30 PM at The Town Hall in NYC, celebrating the best of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway from the 2025–2026 season. Titanique’s Marla Mindelle will host, and the ceremony will feature over 300 industry guests in a 70th-anniversary celebration.
The Drama Desk Awards are the only major New York City theater awards for which productions on Broadway, Off Broadway, and Off Broadway compete against each other in the same categories.
Ghost Light
How the Tony-Nominated Cats Revival Became a Love Letter to Ballroom Culture
Scenic designer Rachel Hauck explains how she transformed a Broadway theater into a living, breathing runway—earning a Tony nomination in the process. Read More
THE LOST BOYS Costume Designer Ryan Park Explains How He Created the Show’s 80s Vampire Style
In Broadway’s biggest spectacle this season, 80’s punk fashion is back and completely taking over the Santa Carla boardwalk. In The Lost Boys, everywhere you look, you can catch mohawks, mullets, studded leather jackets, neon corsets, high-waisted swimsuit bottoms, electric guitars, and of course, blood-soaked fangs. Read More
Illuminating The Creatures Of The Night: Jen Schriever Lights The Lost Boys
Jen Schriever talked to Live Design about the shared creative process, illuminating a thriller set over three stories, and having fun with an 80s rock aesthetic. Read More
Jamie Lloyd’s ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ With Tom Hiddleston & Hayley Atwell Sets Full Broadway Cast, Venue And Dates
Lloyd announced the full cast today, along with the venue – the Winter Garden Theatre – and production dates: Previews begin Saturday, October 31, ahead of a Thursday, November 19, official opening night. The 10-week strictly limited engagement will play through Sunday, January 10, 2027.
The design team includes Soutra Gilmour (scenic & costume design), Jon Clark (lighting design), Ben and Max Ringham (sound designers & composers), Fabian Aloise (choreographer), Carole Hancock (hair, wigs & make-up), Kate Waters (fight director), and Ingrid Mackinnon (intimacy coordinator).
The creative team will also include Conner Wilson (US associate director), Charlie Martin (UK associate choreographer), Anna Josephs (associate costume design), and Ricky Lurie (US assistant costume designer), Huw Evans (UK music supervisor), and Adam Rothenberg (US music supervisor).
Design Showcases Across The Country
NYC: National Design Portfolio Review (NDPR) 2026
National Design Portfolio Review welcomes producers, directors, and designers from across the profession to informally connect with recent graduates from eighteen member programs and review their portfolios. This event offers a chance to support emerging designers as they enter the industry and to celebrate the profession as a whole.
The day includes morning and afternoon review sessions, along with a seated luncheon with presenters. Attendees are asked to participate in one portfolio review session as part of registration.
Location: NYU Paulson Center, 38 W Houston St., New York, NY 10021
Date and Time: Thu, May 21 at 10:00 AM — 8:00 PM ET
Carnegie Mellow University School of Drama
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama invites you to join us at Midtown Loft & Terrace in New York City for our 2026 Creators' Expo, where you will meet our Class of 2026 Designers, Directors, Dramatic Writers, Dramaturgs, Production Techs, and Managers. Please RSVP using the button below if you wish to attend.
Open House & Cocktail Party
Date: Friday, May 22, 2026
Time: 5–9 PM ET
Location: Midtown Loft & Terrace
267 Fifth Avenue, Suite 100
New York, NY 10016
2026 Design Showcase - Yale School of Drama
Presenting the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale Design Showcase for the class of 2026.
NEW YORK CITY
May 14 & 15
10AM–5PM
The Public Theater Studios
440 Lafayette St.
New York, NY
Space is limited. To ensure the safety and comfort of all attendees please register through this link: DESIGN SHOWCASE 2026
Design Showcase West 2026 by UCLA Department of Theater
Design Showcase West is the only national entertainment design showcase on the West Coast featuring the work of top graduate students.
Exhibits range from costume design to scenic, sound, lighting and production design, all from the nations top university design programs. Studio executives, film and television producers, theater artistic directors and professional designers attend DSW to meet the industry's fresh rising stars.
Ralph Freud Playhouse, Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, May 30 • Starts at 9 AM
Rutgers Theater Design Presentation 2026
The Design Program of Rutgers University Theater Department at Mason Gross School of the Arts invites you to meet the Spring 2026 Design Graduates.
When: Friday, May 15th
Time: 4 PM to 8 PM
Location: HELEN MILLS Event Space & Theater, 137-139 West 26th St. (between 6th & 7th Aves.), NYC.
RSVP to: [email protected]
Broadway Preview(s):
No Previews This Week.
Broadway Opening(s):
Celebrity Autobiography
Sam S. Shubert Theatre
First Preview: May 16, 2026
Opening Date: May 18, 2026
Scenic Design • Derek McLane
Lighting Design • Ed McCarthy
Sound Design • Palmer Hefferan
Broadway Closing(s):
No closings this week.
Off Broadway:
Indian Princesses
Atlantic Theater Company
First Preview 04.30.26 • Opening Night 05.19.26
Closing Date • 06.07.26
Scenic Design - Emmie Finckel
Costume Design - Sarafina Bush
Lighting Design - Mextly Couzin
Sound Design - Salvador Zamora
Production Stage Manager - Andie Burns
Thornton Wilder’s The Emporium
Classic Stage Company/Lynn F. Angelson Theater
First Preview 04.30.26 • Opening Night 05.18.26
Closing Date • 06.07.26
Scenic Design - Walt Spanger
Costume Design - Alejo Vietti
Lighting Design Cat Tate Starmer
Sound Design Darron L West
Props Supervisor - Anya Kutner
Wig Design - Charles G. LaPointe
Production Stage Manager - Shane Schnetzler
Assistant Stage Manager - Sammy Landau
Production Manager - Kyle Schuller / Blue Truck Prods.
Associate Scenic Designer - Kim Zhou
Associate Costume Designer - Gail Baldoni
Associate Wig Designer - Rachael Geier
Associate Lighting Designer - Colleen Doherty
Associate Sound Designer - Ryan Matthew Hall
Scenery Fabricated by Joshua Warner Studios
Lighting Equipment by Hayden Production Services Inc.
Audio Equipment by Five OHM Productions
That’s it for this week.
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The Tech Table Team
