Broadway: The Constant Wife, Twelve Angry Men, In My Life, Reckless, The Man Who Had All the Luck, A Thousand Clowns. Off-Broadway: Grey Gardens, Douglas Carter Beane's Little Dog Laughed, Lobby Hero, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Mr. Marmalade, The Dazzle, This is Our Youth, Well, As Bees in Honey Drown, John Guare's A Few Stout Individuals (dir. Michael Greif). Opera: San Francisco Opera, New York City Opera, Santa Fe, Glimmerglass, Houston Grand, Scottish Opera. Also, Mark Morris' Sylvia for the San Francisco Ballet and Orfeo ed Euridice for The Metropolitan Opera.
"Allen Moyer's Act 1 set looks like a garden run wild amid swags of fabric. This very human Sylvia counters its original in spectacle with a tone as sweet as Delibes's music." — Village Voice on Sylvia
Martin Pakledinaz has designed costumes for theater, opera, and dance. He has collaborated with Mark Morris on works for the Mark Morris Dance Group, San Francisco Ballet, and Boston Ballet, and he has designed several works for Helgi Tomasson, including Nutcracker in 2004.
Mr. Pakledinaz's New York credits include Kathleen Marshall's revival of The Pajama Game (Tony Award nomination) and the Signature Theatre's revival of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, as well as Thoroughly Modern Millie, Wonderful Town, The Wild Party, A Year with Frog and Toad, Kiss Me Kate, Golden Child, The Diary of Anne Frank, Waste, and The Life. His work can be seen in the new production of Grease, currently playing on Broadway.
His work in opera includes Stephen Wadsworth's staging of Rodelinda for the Metropolitan Opera, Tristan and Isolde for the Paris Opera/Bastille, directed by Peter Sellars with video installations by Bill Viola; as well as two other premiere works by Sellars, L'amour de Loin and Adriana Mater, composed by Kaija Saariaho with libretti by Amin Maalouf. His work can be seen in the new productions of Grease and Gypsy, currently playing on Broadway.
"The marvel is that Morris, Marty Pakledinaz, and Allen Moyer have lovingly built an exalted but apt vision of the good human society, one that has to be fought for, as we are all painfully discovering again." — DanceView Times on Sylvia
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Designs for Mark Morris include Orfeo ed Euridice (Metropolitan Opera); King Arthur (English National Opera); Sylvia, Sandpaper Ballet, Maelstrom, and Pacific (San Francisco Ballet); Platée (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and New York City Opera); L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Dido and Aeneas, and The Hard Nut (Mark Morris Dance Group); Ein Herz (Paris Opera Ballet); and the initial White Oak Project tour. His work for Lincoln Center includes Zaide, Ainadamar, and Bach Cantatas, all directed by Peter Sellars, and Renaissance Muse, directed by Mark Lamos.
At the Metropolitan Opera Mr. Ingalls has also designed An American Tragedy, Salome, Benvenuto Cellini, The Gambler, War and Peace, and Wozzeck. Most recently he designed A Flowering Tree and La Passion de Simone (New Crowned Hope at the Barbican Centre, London), Dr. Atomic (Holland Festival/De Nederlandse Opera and San Francisco Opera), and The Cherry Orchard at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He often collaborates with Saint Joseph Ballet in Santa Ana, California.
"Lit by James F. Ingalls, the unencumbered stage is transformed into a series of exquisitely harmonious color fields." — The Wall Street Journal