Santo Richard Loquasto (born July 26, 1944) is an American production designer,

scenic design Scenic design (also known as scenography, stage design, or set design) is the creation of theatrical, as well as film or television scenery. Scenic designers come from a variety of artistic backgrounds, but in recent years, are mostly trained ...

er, and costume designer for stage,

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, and

dance Dance is a performing art form consisting of sequences of movement, either improvised or purposefully selected. This movement has aesthetic and often symbolic value. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoire ...

. His work has included the films '' Big'', '' Radio Days'', '' Cafe Society'', '' Blue Jasmine'', '' Desperately Seeking Susan'', ''

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'', and '' Zelig''. His work on stage is extensive and includes '' Hello, Dolly!'', '' Movin' Out'', '' Fosse'',''

Ragtime Ragtime, also spelled rag-time or rag time, is a musical style that flourished from the 1890s to 1910s. Its cardinal trait is its syncopated or "ragged" rhythm. Ragtime was popularized during the early 20th century by composers such as Scott ...

'', ''The Cherry Orchard'', '' Grand Hotel'', ''

Cafe Crown ''Cafe Crown'' is a three-act play by Hy Kraft that premiered on Broadway on January 23, 1942, at the Cort Theatre. The cast included Sam Jaffe and Morris Carnovsky. Its action presented "a motley group of amiable squatters found in a Second Av ...

'', the ballet ''

Don Quixote is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, its full title is ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'' or, in Spanish, (changing in Part 2 to ). A founding work of Wester ...

'', ''

Glengarry Glen Ross ''Glengarry Glen Ross'' is a play by David Mamet that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984. The play shows parts of two days in the lives of four desperate Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to engage in any number of unethical, illegal acts ...

'', and '' Fences''. Loquasto has won a

British Academy Film Award The British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTA Film Awards is an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to honour the best British and international contributions to film. The cere ...

, five

Drama Desk Awards The Drama Desk Award is an annual prize recognizing excellence in New York theatre. First bestowed in 1955 as the Vernon Rice Award, the prize initially honored Off-Broadway productions, as well as Off-off-Broadway, and those in the vicinity. Fol ...

, and has garnered four

Tony Awards The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ce ...

. He has been nominated for three

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and a total of twenty-three

. In 2004, Loquasto was inducted into the

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Education and career

Loquasto has a

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Middle Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate academic degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six ...

English literature English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ...

from

King's College, Pennsylvania King's College is a Catholic liberal arts college in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education and located within the Diocese of Scranton. History King's College was founded in 1946 by ...

and a

master's of fine arts A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...

from Yale Drama School. He started his career as a designer at the Showcase Theatre in

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Wilkes-Barre ( or ) is a city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, Luzerne County. Located at the center of the Wyoming Valley in Northeastern Pennsylvania, it had a population of 44,328 in th ...

. After working in regional theater since 1969, Loquasto has worked on approximately 100 Broadway productions, either as scenic designer, costume designer, or both. His first Broadway production was '' Sticks and Bones'' in 1972, and his most recent productions have been ''

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'' and '' The Iceman Cometh'', both in 2018. He has received 21

Tony Award The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre, more commonly known as the Tony Award, recognizes excellence in live Broadway theatre. The awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League at an annual ce ...

nominations for his work as either costume or scenic designer, and has won four times. He has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design three times, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design once. Loquasto has been a production designer for many

Woody Allen Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing ...

films, and was nominated for the

Academy Award The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment in ...

for his production design for Allen's '' Bullets over Broadway'' and '' Radio Days'', and for costume design for '' Zelig''. Loquasto is a first cousin of Indy car driver

Al Loquasto Albert John (Al) Loquasto (Jr.) (June 21, 1940 – July 31, 1991), was an Italian-American racecar driver. Born in Easton, Pennsylvania, Loquasto died in a plane crash in Fogelsville, Pennsylvania. He drove in the USAC and CART Championshi ...

and a distant cousin of

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and author Angelo F. Coniglio. The family is descended from Libertino lo Guasto, a foundling born in Serradifalco in 1796.

Tony Awards

Best Costume Design: * 1977: ''

The Cherry Orchard ''The Cherry Orchard'' (russian: Вишнёвый сад, translit=Vishnyovyi sad) is the last play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. Written in 1903, it was first published by ''Znaniye'' (Book Two, 1904), and came out as a separate edition ...

'' (tied with Theoni V. Aldredge for '' Annie)'' * 1990: '' Grand Hotel: The Musical'' * 2017: '' Hello, Dolly!'' Best Scenic Design: * 1989: ''

Selected theatre credits

*1972 – ''Sticks & Bones'' *1972 – '' That Championship Season'' *1975 - '' Kennedy's Children'' *1978 – '' King of Hearts'' *1979 – ''

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'' *1990 – '' Grand Hotel, The Musical'' *2005 – ''

'' *2007 – ''

110 in the Shade ''110 in the Shade'' is a musical with a book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by Tom Jones, and music by Harvey Schmidt. Based on Nash's 1954 play '' The Rainmaker'', it focuses on Lizzie Curry, a spinster living on a ranch in the American southwest ...

'' *2009 – '' Waiting For Godot'' *2016 – '' Shuffle Along'' *2017 – '' Hello, Dolly!'' (2017 revival) *2018 – ''

'' (revival) *2018 – '' The Iceman Cometh'' (revival) *2019 – '' Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andonicus''

References

External links

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Santo Loquasto: list of works at filmreference.com

W.H. Crain Costume and Scene Design Collection
at the

Harry Ransom Center The Harry Ransom Center (until 1983 the Humanities Research Center) is an archive, library and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the pu ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Loquasto, Santo 1944 births American costume designers American people of Italian descent American production designers American scenic designers Best Production Design BAFTA Award winners Ballet designers Drama Desk Award winners King's College (Pennsylvania) alumni Living people People from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Tony Award winners Yale School of Drama alumni