Robert perdziola biography

Robert Perdziola


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Awards and Nominations

Helen Hayes Awards - 2010 - Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production

Robert PerdziolaDesign for Living

Helen Hayes Awards - 2009 - Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production

Robert PerdziolaMajor Barbara


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Helen Hayes Awards - 2006 - Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production

Robert PerdziolaLady Windermere's Fan

Helen Hayes Awards - 2005 - Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production

Robert PerdziolaCyrano

Helen Hayes Awards - 2004 - Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production

Robert PerdziolaThe Rivals

Helen Hayes Awards - 2004 - Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production

Robert PerdziolaFollies

Helen Hayes Awards - 2003 - Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production

Robert PerdziolaThe Duchess of Malfi


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Helen Hayes Awards - 2002 - Outstanding Costume Design, Resident Production

Robert PerdziolaDon Carlos


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Helen Hayes Awards - 2001 - Outstanding Cost

Long-time N.Y. costume designer returns to native Pittsburgh

For theatergoers seeking to mark Valentine’s Day with live music, love, and friendship, the DMV offers some new spins on traditional themes. 

Poised to make its regional debut at Olney Theatre Center, Sara Bareilles’s hit musical “Waitress” (Feb.13-March 30) may not seem like a usual love story, but it’s a love story nonetheless. 

“It’s about learning to love and value yourself,” says MALINDA who plays Jenna, the show’s titular server/baker with aspirations to bake prize-winning pies and change her life. “It’s also about sisterhood. From the start, the women involved in the show decided to be there for each other onstage and off, and it shows. For anyone with girl group love in their lives, this is an especially good show to see.

“Jenna doesn’t get a lot of satisfaction out of her primary partnership. Along with self-love she explores the antithesis of that — partner violence. Our director [Marcia Milgrom Dodge] took the lesson of community support and community love to heart.”

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Robert Perdziola

Biography

Robert Perdziola has designed sets and costumes for American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Saito Kinen Festival, San Francisco Opera, Opéra Monte Carlo, Garsington Opera, Opera Australia, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Cincinnati Opera, Fort Worth Opera, Opera Boston, and Glimmerglass Opera.  Among these designs are those for Capriccio and Il Pirata for the Met, La Grande Duchesse for Opera Boston, and Falstaff for the Saito Kinen Festival.  In 2017 he designed two productions of Le Nozze di Figaro, one for Garsington Opera in Wormsley, England, and the other for Hyogo Performing Arts Center, Japan.  In fall 2016, Perdziola created sets and costumes for the Finnish National Ballet’s Alice In Wonderland.  His productions of The Nutcracker (2012) and Swan Lake (2014) are regularly seen at Boston Ballet.

For American Ballet Theatre, Perdziola has designed costumes and scenery for the revival of Antony Tudor’s Pillar of Fire (2003), for Alexei Ratmansky’

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