Wilson Chin is a stage designer based in New York City. Broadway credits include:

Cost of Living by Martyna Majok, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, nominated for five Tony Awards

Pass Over by Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu, for which Wilson received Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Henry Hewes Award nominations in set design

Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts, nominated for two Tony Awards

Other recent theatre credits include Jonah (Roundabout Theatre Company), The Animal Kingdom (The Connelly), Sunset Baby and A Bright New Boise (Signature Theatre), This Land Was Made (Vineyard Theatre), Space Dogs (MCC Theatre, Lucille Lortel Award nomination), Sumo and Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi/Public Theater), The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical (La Jolla Playhouse), Summer Stock (Goodspeed Musicals), Anne of Green Gables (producer: Justin Nichols) and the current national tour of Annie (Crossroads Live Group).

Opera credits include Turandot (Washington National Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Eine Florentinische Tragödie and Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera Company, Dora Award winner)

Film/television: Pass Over (dir. Spike Lee), “Game Theory with Bomani Jones” (HBO), “Blindspot” (NBC)

Wilson has served as an associate designer on over a dozen Broadway productions, most recently for & Juliet and A Doll’s House.

Wilson is the co-chair of the American Theatre Wing’s Obie Awards, an Eastern Region Board member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, and a founding member of The 1/52 Project, RISE Theatre, Design Action and Be An Arts Hero. He also served as an adjudicator and voter for the Lucille Lortel Awards, Tony Awards, Horton Foote Playwrighting Prize, the 121 Project and Opera America Prize.

Wilson received his BA in Environmental Design from UC Berkeley and MFA from the Yale School of Drama. Instagram: @wilsonchindesign

Awards & nominations

Drama Desk Award nomination | Pass Over | Broadway

Henry Hewes Design Award nomination | Pass Over | Broadway

Lucille Lortel Award nomination | Space Dogs | MCC Theater

Lucille Lortel Award nomination | Pass Over | Lincoln Center Theatre

Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nomination | Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Geffen Playhouse

Helen Hayes Award nomination | Cabaret | Olney Theatre Center

Dora Award winner | A Florentine Tragedy/Gianni Schicchi | Canadian Opera Company

Elliot Norton Award winner | Clyde’s | Huntington Theatre Company

San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award winner | Ragtime | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley