HADESTOWN's Rachel Hauck Wins 2019 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical
By: BWW News Desk Jun. 09, 2019
Rachel Hauck has won the 2019 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for Hadestown.
On Broadway, Hauck has designed What the Constitution Means to Me and Latin History for Morons. Other recent work includes Hadestown (National Theater; Citadel; NYTW); Hurricane Diane (NYTW); Othello, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Park); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); You'll Still Call Me By Name (Sonya Tayeh/Jacob's Pillow); Tiny Beautiful Things, Dry Powder (The Public); Amy and the Orphans, On the Exhale (Roundabout Theatre Company); Antlia Pneumatica, Grand Concourse (Playwrights Horizons).
For her work, she was received Princess Grace, Lilly awards; Drama Desk, Lortel nominations; Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.
Hadestown intertwines two mythic tales - that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone - as it invites you on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Anais Mitchell's beguiling melodies and Rachel Chavkin's poetic imagination pit industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love. Performed by a vibrant ensemble of actors, dancers and singers, Hadestown is a haunting and hopeful theatrical experience that grabs you and never lets go.
