Santo Loquasto
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Biography
An outstanding costume and scenic designer who freely moves between stage and feature work, Santo Loquasto studied first at Kings College in his native Wilkes-Barre, PA, and then at Yale, where he earned an MFA. His first professional designs were for productions at the prestigious Williamstown Theatre Festival. Loquasto has designed costumes for ballets at the American Ballet Theatre, served as resident designer at several major theaters (Arena Stage in Washington, DC, the Hartford Stage Company and the New York Shakespeare Festival). Among his more notable designs were Jason Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning "That Championship Season" (1972), David Mamet's "American Buffalo" (1977), the New York Shakespeare Festival's acclaimed version of "The Cherry Orchard" (also 1977), the stage version of "Singin' in the Rain" (1985), Tommy Tune's musicalization of "Grand Hotel" (1989, costumes only), and Neil Simon's Pulitzer-winner "Lost in Yonkers" (1993). Loquasto has won three Tony Awards for his work.
Loquasto began working in features in 1979 with "Sammy Stops the World," an adaptation of the Anthony Newley-Leslie Bricusse musical "Stop the World--I Want to Get Off," starring Sammy Davis Jr. In 1980, he began a long collaboration with director Woody Allen by providing the costumes for "Stardust Memories." The designer earned Oscar nominations for his work on three subsequent Allen films: the costumes for "Zelig" (1983) and the opulently detailed period production design on "Radio Days" (1987) and "Bullets Over Broadway" (1994). Loquasto has also designed Penny Marshall's "Big" (1988) and two features for Susan Seidelman, the contemporary "Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985) and the extravagant "She-Devil" (1989).
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1960
Fashioned his first sets (for "Picnic" and "Gigi") and also acted at Ross Common Playhouse in the Poconos (date approximate)
1965
First professional designs created for productions at Williamstown Theatre in Williamstown, Massachusetts
1967
Designed costumes for American Ballet Theatre
1968
Spent three seasons as principal designer with Hartford Stage Company
1970
Off-Broadway debut (April 1) with "The Unseen Hand" and "Forensic and the Navigator"
1971
Became principal designer for the New York Shakespeare Festival (NYSF)
1971
Resident designer with the Arena Stage in Washington, DC
1972
First Broadway productions: "Sticks and Bones" (March 1) and "That Championship Season" (September 14), both plays had originated at NYSF before transferring to Broadway
1972
Designed set for "La Dafne" for the New York Pro Musica at Spoleto Festival
1978
First film as set and costume designer, "Sammy Stops the World", and adaptation of stage musical "Stop the World--I Want to Get Off" starring Sammy Davis Jr
1980
First collaboration with Woody Allen, designed costumes for "Stardust Memories"
1983
Earned first Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design for Allen's "Zelig"
1984
Created costumes for two ballets presented on "Baryshnikov by Tharp with the American Ballet" (PBS)
1985
First collaboration with director Susan Seidelman, was production designer on "Desperately Seeking Susan"
1986
First Allen film as production designer, "Radio Days"; earned Oscar nomination for Best Art Direction
1989
Served as production designer on Seidelman's "She-Devil"
1993
TV series debut as production designer "Tribeca" (Fox)
1994
Garnered second Best Art Direction Academy Award nomination for Allen's period comedy "Bullets Over Broadway"
1995
Again collaborated with Allen as production designer for the award winning "Mighty Aphrodite"
1998
Costume Design for the award winning musical "Ragtime"
1999
Scenic and Costume Design for the musical "Fosse"
1999
Served as Production Designer for Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown"
2002
Provided the Scenic Design for "Movin' Out," a Musical composed with the songs of Billy Joel
2005
Designed the set for David Mamet's play "Glengarry Glen Ross"; earned a Tony nomination for Best Scenic Design of a Play
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