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Anne Patterson is a set and costume designer based in New York City, where her design work has appeared at Avery Fisher and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center; the Juilliard School; the Brooklyn Academy of Music; the NY Theater Workshop; the Ensemble Studio Theater; The Joyce; and St. Mark’s Dance Space. She has designed fourteen operas including one world premiere and three US premieres for the Aspen Music Festival. She has made her designs for Arena Stage in DC; Alliance Theater in Atlanta; the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia; the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; the Philadelphia Orchestra; the Fisher Center at Bard College; Red {an orchestra}, Cleveland, OH; Pacific Northwest Ballet; Ballet West; the Houston Ballet; The Kennedy Center; Wolf Trap; and in Europe for the National Theatre, London and the Scottish Ballet. PBS and the BBC have featured Ms. Patterson's production design work as well.

 
Anne Patterson has collaborated with many world-renowned artists including:  

Photo credit: Antonio Petracca


Directors: Jonathan Miller, Molly Smith, Chris Ashley, Edward Berkeley, Blanka and Jiri Zizka.

Playwrights: Terrence McNally, Wendy Wasserstein, Doug Wright, Nilo Cruz, and Tim Acito.

Conductors: Robert Spano, Donald Runnicles, Dennis Russell Davies, and Jonathan Sheffer.

Composers: Tim Acito, John Adams, Thomas Ades, Philip Glass, Augusta Reed Thomas, and Michael Torke.

Ms. Patterson has pioneered a new area of design for symphony orchestras in creating installations for the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra and American Symphony Orchestra. This introduction of art installations and lighting effects has revolutionized the concert experience.

Career highlights for Ms. Patterson include "Cosi Fan Tutte" directed by Jonathan Miller at BAM's Harvey Theater, "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor" by Stoppard/Previn for the Philadelphia Orchestra, and "Women of Brewster Place" co-produced by the Alliance Theater and Arena Stage.

She received a 2006 Creative Capital Grant to create "Mercury Soul", an installation/musical collaboration with composer Mason Bates. In this project Anne’s visuals interacted with Mason’s electro-acoustic and chamber music. "Mercury Soul" premiered in San Francisco at Mezzanine on February 1, 2008.

Ms. Patterson is also a member of the Re-Construction/Construction Advisory Group for Downtown Alliance, a committee that co-ordinates the installation of art at construction sites throughout lower Manhattan.

Upcoming projects include: "Over, In and Under" - a celebration of some of her paintings and installations at the Marmara Gallery on the Upper East Side, from November 12, 2008 to January 11, 2009; an installation for Haydn's "Creation" for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in February of 2009; and a revival of "Mercury Soul" at Mezzanine in San Francisco on February 15th, 2009.

Ms. Patterson received a BA in Architecture from Yale University and a M.F.A. in theater design from The Slade School of Art in London.
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