From: Los Angeles, California, and New York City, New York. LA Opera: prism (2018, debut); Breaking the Waves (2021, LAO On Now).
Adam Rigg is a New York-based set and costume designer for opera, theater and dance. They are a big fan of queer historical fiction novels and Mary Blair.
Adam is a Tony Award nominee (2022, Best Scenic Design of a Play, The Skin of Our Teeth) and the winner of a Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, Henry Hewes Design Award and Princess Grace Award.
Credits include productions for Lincoln Center / Beaumont, Soho Rep, The Public Theater, Mark Taper Forum / Center Theatre Group, New York Theater Workshop, Theater an der Wein (Austria), Signature Theater Company, The Guthrie, Seattle Rep, Teatro Municipal (Brazil), Williamstown Theater Festival, Yale Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Atlantic Theater Company, Opera Philadelphia, Cincinnati Opera, Manhattan Theatre Club, Kennedy Center, Berkeley Rep, Norwegian National Opera and Theatre for a New Audience.
Adam has been a resident artist with their performance collective I Am A Boys Choir at the Public Theater (Devised Theater Working Group) and Mabou Mines.
BA UCLA, MFA Yale School of Drama
Learn more at AdamRiggDesign.com.
