Set Designer

Brett J.
Banakis

Brett J. Banakis is a designer for theater, opera, film, and live performance based in Brooklyn, NY. In 2019, Brett made his Geffen Playhouse design debut with Mysterious Circumstances, which earned an Ovation nomination for Best Set Design. Other Geffen Playhouse designs: The Enigmatist, Inside the Box. As Assistant Set Designer: Wishful Drinking, A Picasso, You Can’t Take It With You, Paint Your Wagon, Speed-the-Plow, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Take Me Out. Broadway: The Outsiders (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre), The Notebook (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre), The Cher Show (Neil Simon Theare). Recent credits: Camp Siegfried (Second Stage Theater), Your Own Personal Exegesis (LCT3), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Transport Group), An Officer and a Gentleman (National Tour), Sunday (Atlantic Theater Company), Ghost Light (LCT3). Brett currently serves as International Scenic Supervisor for all worldwide productions of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Broadway, West End, Melbourne, San Francisco, Hamburg, Toronto, Tokyo). Brett is a faculty member at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. www.brettjbanakis.com

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