SITI summer resident wins Tony Award
Darron L West, a designer with SITI, won a 2012 Tony Award Sunday night for his sound design for the play Peter and the Starcatcher.
In his acceptance remarks West expressed appreciation to his colleagues at SITI, the theater company that spends part of each summer on the Skidmore College campus. West has been SITI Company member since 1993 and first collaborated with SITI founder Anne Bogart in 1990 while resident sound designer at Actors Theatre of Louisville. His work has been heard in more than 400 productions both nationally and internationally.
West has garnered a number of awards for his work, including a 1998 OBIE award for SITI's Bob, a 2000 Princess Grace Award, an Entertainment Design Magazine EDDY, the 2004 and 2005 Henry Hewes Design award, and a 2006 Lortell Award. His directing credits include Kid Simple (2004 Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville), Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse and Eurydice (Children's Theater Co. Minneapolis), Big Love (Rude Mechanicals Austin, Texas) and SITI Company?s War of the Worlds ? The Radio Play (national tour).
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