Mr. Wierzel has worked with artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds in theatre, dance, new music, museums and opera on stages throughout the country and abroad. OPERA: includes productions with the companies of Paris, Tokyo, Toronto, Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, Minnesota, Virginia, Chicago Lyric, Chicago Opera Theatre, Florida Grand, Washington, Glimmerglass and N.Y.C.O. REGIONAL: includes productions at Arena Stage, A.C.T. San Francisco, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Chicago Shakespeare, Hartford Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, Long Wharf, Goodman Theatre, Yale Rep, California Shakespeare, The Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum and Berkeley Rep, among many others. DANCE: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co., Doug Varone, Donna Uchizono, Sean Curran, Alonzo King, Lyon Washington DC; Chicago Shakespeare Theater; Shakespeare Theatre DC; Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre; Goodman Theatre; The Guthrie; Mark Taper Forum; Geva Theatre; Actors Theatre/Louisville; Old Globe/San Diego; Laguna Playhouse; Yale Rep and the Berkley Rep, among many others.
His Dance collaborations include works with choreographers Doug Varone; Larry Goldhuber and Heidi Latsky (Worse Case Scenario-Bessie Award); Sean Curran; Molissa Fenely; Donna Uchizono; Alonzo King; Charlie Moulton; Arthur Aviles; Margo Sappington; Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and Trisha Brown Dance Company.
In addition, he has designed the lighting for selected art exhibitions at museums around the country, including the Red Grooms installation at Grand Central Station; at the Yale Art Gallery- Baule: African Art, Western Eyes and Love & Loss: American Portrait And Mourning Miniatures; To Know the Dark; Making It New-The Art & Style of Sara & Gerald Murphy, among others, and The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-1950, the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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