Scenic Designer

John
Arnone

Tony Award-winner, John Arnone began his career designing critically-acclaimed productions Off Broadway for which he received two Obie Awards. He designed more than 30 sets at New York’s Public Theater with legendary producer Joseph
Papp, Lion Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, and Circle Rep. He has worked with Garland Wright and Joe Dowling at the Guthrie Theater and Des McAnuff at La Jolla Playhouse. In 1993, The Who’s Tommy opened on Broadway, for which Mr. Arnone received a Tony, Dora Mavor Moore, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards. Other Broadway designs include How to Succeed in Business…, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Sacrilege; Tommy Tune’s productions of The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public and Grease; Sex and Longing; The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Fortune’s Fool; The Full Monty; Marlene; The Deep Blue Sea; Lone Star/Pvt Wars; Minnelli on Minnelli; The Best Man; The Ride Down Mt. Morgan; and Lennon: The Musical. His work has been seen in Canada, London, Vienna, Berlin, Japan, and Australia. Designs for the Geffen Playhouse: Nightmare Alley, Atlanta, I Just Stopped by to See the Man, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Collected Stories, Cryptogram and Superior Donuts.