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Wilson Chin is a stage designer based in New York City. Broadway and tour 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
Annie international tour, including Madison Square Garden starring Whoopi Goldberg
Next Fall by Geoffrey Nauffts, nominated for two Tony Awards
Other recent theatre credits include Nina (Theaterlab), Jonah (Roundabout Theatre Company), The Animal Kingdom (The Connelly), Sunset Baby and A Bright New Boise (Signature Theatre), This Land Was Made (Vineyard Theatre), All Nighter and 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 and Anne of Green Gables (Goodspeed Musicals).
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 Sunset Blvd., A Doll’s House and & Juliet.
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 Tony Awards, Lucille Lortel 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.
awards & Honors
Drama Desk Award nomination | Pass Over | Broadway
Henry Hewes Design Award nomination | Pass Over | Broadway
Henry Hewes Design Award nomination | A Bright New Boise | Signature Theatre
Lucille Lortel Award nomination | Space Dogs | MCC Theater
Lucille Lortel Award nomination | Pass Over | Lincoln Center Theatre
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 | Clyde’s | Berkeley Repertory Theatre
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award winner | Ragtime | TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Annie | Madison Square Garden
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Sunset Baby | Signature Theatre
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Jonah | Roundabout Theatre Company
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Summer Stock | Goodspeed Musicals
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Cost of Living | Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Broadway
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Pass Over | August Wilson Theatre, Broadway
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Sakina’s Restaurant | Audible/Minetta Lane Theatre
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Teenage Dick | Ma-Yi Theatre & The Public Theater
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Pass Over | LCT3
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Cost of Living | Manhattan Theatre Club
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Informed Consent | Primary Stages
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Abundance | The Actor’s Company Theatre
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Next Fall | Helen Hayes Theatre, Broadway
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Next Fall | Naked Angels Theatre
New York Times Critic’s Pick | Masked | DR2 Theatre