Bio

Peter Kaczorowski—a 2011 Tony Award nominee for his lighting design in Anything Goes—made his Seattle Opera debut designing the lighting for Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice in 1988. Other productions with the company include Wagner’s Fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin, and the Ring (2001 and 2005) as well as Handel’s Xerxes and Barber’s Vanessa, Mozart's Nozze di Figaro, and Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. He has designed for the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Houston Grand Opera, New York City Opera, and Santa Fe Opera, among many others. Abroad, he has designed for Royal Opera Covent Garden, Scottish Opera, Opera North, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, L’Arena di Verona, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, and Sao Carlos in Lisbon. His Broadway work includes the recent revival of Waiting for Godot, as well as Young Frankenstein, Curtains, Grey Gardens, Is He Dead?, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and The Producers. His work is regularly seen at Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, and regionally at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre, and La Jolla Playhouse, among others. He is the recipient of Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Dramalogue, Eddy, and Hewes design awards.