Le Roi Arthus, composed by and libretto by Ernest Chausson
Bard Summerscape
Conducted by Leon Botstein
Directed by Louisa Proske
Choreography by Zoe Scofield
Set & Projection Design by Matt Saunders
Costume Design by Kaye Voyce
Lighting Design by Scott Zielinski
by: James Ijames
Wilma Theater
Directed by: Blanka Zizka
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by: Thom Weaver
Costume Design by: LeVonne Lindsay
Composition and Sound Design by: Justin Ellington
WALDEN by Amy Berryman
Second Stage, NYC
Directed by: Whitney White
Set Design: Matt Saunders
Costume Design: Qween Jean
Lighting: Adam Honoré
Sound Design: Lee Kinney
Daddy, a world premiere by Jeremy O Harris
The New Group and The Vineyard at Signature Theater
Directed by Danya Taymor
Set Design by Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by Isabella Byrd
Costume Design by Montana Levi Blanco
*Drama Desk Award, Best Set Design for a Play 2019*
Hello Blackout! is a devised work, created by New Paradise Laboratories. It premiered at the 2017 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. Hello Blackout! was a physical theater meditation on the philosophical idea of contingency, as it relates to the field of Speculative Realism.
Conceived and Directed by Whit Mac Laughlin
Created by New Paradise Laboratories
Set Design by Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by Thom Weaver
Costume Design by Tara Webb
Photos by Kate Raines
27 is a devised work, created by New Paradise Laboratories. It premiered at the 2012 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. 27 was a physical theater meditation on the phenomenology of the "27 Club," that infamous group of musicians that died at the age of 27 (Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse).
Conceived and Directed by Whit Mac Laughlin
Created by New Paradise Laboratories
Set Design by Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by Thom Weaver
Costume Design by Tara Webb
THE BLUEST EYE
Guthrie Theater
Novel by: Toni Morrison
Stage Adaptation by: Lydia Diamond
Directed by: Lileana Blain-Cruz
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by: Yi Zhao
Costume Design by: Montana Blanco
FLEX by Canrice Jones
Lincoln Center Theater
Directed by: Lileana Blain-Cruz
Set Design: Matt Saunders
Costume Design: Mika Eubanks
Lighting: Adam Honoré
Sound Design: Palmer Hefferan
*WINNER of the 2023 Audelco Award for Best Set Design*
PIPELINE by: Dominique Morisseau
Lincoln Center Theater
Directed by: Lileana Blain-Cruz
Set Design: Matt Saunders
Costume Design: Montana Levi Blanco
Lighting Design: Yi Zhao
Projection Design: Hannah Wasileski
AN OCTOROON by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins
Wilma Theater 2016
Directed by Joanna Settle
Set Design by Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by Thom Weaver
Costume Design by Tilly Grimes
Original Music by Ill Doots
Rinaldo by: George Frideric Handel
Glimmerglass Festival
Conducted by Emily Senturia
Directed by Louisa Proske
Choreography by Jorrell Lawyer-Jefferson
Set Design by Matt Saunders
Costume Design by Montana Levi Blanco
Projection Design by Jorge Cousineau
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER
The Guthrie Theater
by Todd Kreidler ; based on the screenplay by William Rose
Directed by: Tim Bond
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by: Dawn Chiang
Costume Design by: Lydia Tanji
VENUS by: Suzan-Lori Parks
Signature Theatre
Directed by: Lear DeBessonet
Set Design: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design: Justin Townsend
Costume Design: Emilio Sosa
Sound Design: Brandon Wolcott
Choreography: Danny Mefford
THE CHRISTIANS by Lucas Hnath
Co-Production Syracuse Stage & Wilma Theater
Directed by: Tim Bond
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by: Thom Weaver
Costume Design by: Helen Q. Huang
Parts 1 & 2
by Tony Kushner
Wilma Theater 2012
Directed by: Blanka Zizka
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by: Russell Champa
Costume Design by: Oana Botez
Sound Design by: Christopher Colucci
O MONSTERS is a devised work created by New Paradise Laboratories, structured loosely around the Mallarme' poem "A Throw of the Dice Never Will Abolish Chance." O MONSTERS contemplates the notion(s) of contingency, and how it functions in live performance.
Conceived and Directed by: Whit MacLaughlin
Created by: New Paradise Laboratories
Original Score by: Bhob Rainey
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by: Maria Shaplin
Costume Design by: Rosemarie McKelvey
Created by Cesar Alvarez & The Lisps
Directed by: Sarah Benson
Set Design: Emily Orling & Matt Saunders
Percussion Design: Eric Farber
Lighting Design: Yi Zhao
Costume Design: Emily Orling
Sound Design: Matt Tierney
Lucille Lortel Nomination Best Set Design
Drama Desk Nomination Best Set Deisgn
by: Tracy Letts
Theatre Exile 2008
Directed by: Matt Pfeiffer
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by: Paul Moffitt
by Arthur Miller
Mark Taper Forum
Directed by: Garry Hynes
Set Design: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design: James F. Ingalls
Costume Design: Terese Wadden
STILL UNKNOWN
"Ghosts" a devised work created by Matt Saunders and Christy Lee
Directed by: Matt Saunders
Choreographed by; Christy Lee
Set and Lighting Design by: Matt Saunders
by: Tom Stoppard
US Premiere, Wilma Theater
Directed by: Blanka Zizka
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by: Thom Weaver
Costume Design by: Vasilija Zivanic
Composition and Sound Design by: Daniel Perelstein
by Bertolt Brecht
The Foundry Theatre & The Public Theater
Directed by: Lear deBessonet
Music by: Cezar Alverez & The Lisps
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by: Tyler Micoleau
Costume Design by: Clint Ramos
Lucille Lortel Nomination "Best Set Design"
"a world which, in any case, is fantastic: the set designer Matt Saunders, working with the lighting designer Tyler Micoleau and the costume designer Clint Ramos—all uniformly brilliant" - The New Yorker
by: Andrew Bovell
Wilma Theater 2016
Directed by: Blanka Zizka
Set & Projection Design by: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by: Yi Zhao
Costume Design by: Vasilija Zivanic
Sound Design by: Christopher Colucci
by Sam Shepard
Wilma Theater
Directed by: Richard Hamburger
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by: Stephen Strawbridge
Costume Design by: Kaye Voyce
THE ADULTS is a devised work by New Paradise Laboratories, loosely based on the paintings of Eric Fischl.
Conceived and Directed by: Whit MacLaughlin
Created by: New Paradise Laboratories
Set and Projection Design by: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by: Thom Weaver
Costume Design by: Rosemarie McKelvey
Opera by Lens Janacek
Spoleto Festival USA
Conducted by: Anne Manson
Directed by: Garry Hynes
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by: James F. Ingalls
Costume Design by: Terese Wadden
by William Shakespeare
Wilma Theater
Directed by: Blanka Zizka
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Original Street Art by: Cera
Lighting Design by: Yi Zhao
Costume Design by: Vasilija Zivanic
by David Mamet
Theatre Exile
Directed by: Matt Pfeiffer
Set Design by; Matt Saunders
Lighting Design by: Thom Weaver
Costume Design by: Alison Roberts
by David Ives
Huntington Theatre Company 2014
Directed by: Daniel Goldstein
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Costume Design by: Charles Shoomaker
Lighting Design by: M.L. Geiger
Sound Design by: Darron L. West
by Tracy Letts
Theatre Exile
Directed by: Matt Pfeiffer
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
GRACE NOTES: REFLECTIONS FOR NOW, is a devised performance work created by Carrie Mae Weems. GRACE NOTES is a meditation on the notion of "Grace" as an intrinsic feature of the African American Experience.
Spoleto Festival USA 2016
Kennedy Center 2017
Conceived and Created by: Carrie Mae Weems
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
THUNDERBODIES world premiere by: Kate Tarker
Directed by: Lileana Blain-Cruz
Set Design: Matt Saunders
Costume Design: Oana Botez
Lighting Design: Yi Zhao
Sound Design: Chad Reins
Prisoner of the State world premiere opera by David Lang
NY Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC
Conducted by: Jaap van Zweden
Directed by: Elkhanah Pulitzer
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Costumes by: Maline Casta
Lighting by: Thom Weaver
Projections by: Adam Larsen
Romeo & Juliet by: William Shakespeare
Directed by: Blanka Zizka
Choreography by: Sylvana Cardell
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Costumes by: Vasilija Zivanic
Lighting by: Maria Shaplin
Composition and Musical Direction by: Gracie Martin
Sound Design by: Chris Sannino
Noura by: Heather Raffo
Directed by: Taibi Magar
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Costumes by: Dina El-Aziz
Lighting by: Reza Behjat
Composition & Sound Deign by: Sinan Refik Zafar
Describe the Night by: Rajiv Joseph
Directed by: Blanka Zizka
Set Design by: Matt Saunders
Costumes by: Vasilija Zivanic
Lighting by: Thom Weaver
Composition and Sound Design by: Christopher Colucci
Projection Design by: Christopher Ash
Stranger Love composed by Dylan Mattingly with Libretto by Thomas Bartscherer
LA Philharmonic, Walt Disney Concert Hall
Conducted by David Bloom
Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
Choreographed by Chris Emile
Set Design by Matt Saunders
Costume Design by Kaye Voyce
Lighting Design by Yi Zhao
Projection Design by Hannah Wasileski
