David Korins
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BIO
Broadway: Mrs. Doubtfire, Beetlejuice (Tony nom, Drama Desk award), Hamilton (Tony nom), War Paint (Tony nom), Dear Evan Hansen, Bandstand, Misery, Motown, Vanya and Sonia, Bring It On, The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Lombardi, and Passing Strange. TV: "91st Annual Academy Awards," "Grease: Live!" (Emmy award). Concert: Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Andrea Boccelli. Extensive Off-Broadway/regional theatre, hospitality, and experience design. Dad: Stella and Vivian.
Productions
Awards and Nominations
David Korins, Here Lies Love
David Korins, Here Lies Love
David Korins, Only Gold
winner
David Korins, Beetlejuice
David Korins, Beetlejuice
David Korins, War Paint
David Korins, Misery
David Korins, Hamilton
David Korins, Hamilton
David Korins, Here Lies Love
David Korins, Here Lies Love
David KorinsAssistance
David Korins, Chinglish
winner
David Korins, Chinglish
David Korins, Lombardi
winner
David Korins, When the Rain Stops Falling
David KorinsWhy Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them
winner
David Korins, Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them
winner
David Korins Sustained excellence of set design
winner
David Korins, Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them
David Korins, Hunting and Gathering
David Korins, Jack Goes Boating
David Korins, Essential Self-Defense
winner
David KorinsAce
David Korins, Jack Goes Boating
David Korins, Swimming in the Shallows
winner
David KorinsBlackbird
winner
David KorinsBlackbird
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Outstanding Scenic Design (Broadway or Off-Broadway) (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Here Lies Love, Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for Here Lies Love, Outstanding Scenic Design of a Musical (Drama Desk Awards) for Only Gold, Outstanding Scenic Design (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Beetlejuice, Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for Beetlejuice, Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for War Paint, Outstanding Scenic Design (Play or Musical) (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Misery, Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Tony Awards) for Hamilton, Outstanding Set Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Hamilton, Outstanding Scenic Design (The Lortels) for Here Lies Love, Outstanding Set Design (Play or Musical) (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Here Lies Love, Outstanding Set Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Assistance, Outstanding Set Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Chinglish, Hewes Design Award (The Hewes Awards) for Chinglish, Outstanding Set Design (Drama Desk Awards) for Lombardi, Outstanding Scenic Design (The Lortels) for When the Rain Stops Falling, Outstanding Scenic Design (The Lortels) for Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, Outstanding Set Design of a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, Design (Obie Awards) for Sustained excellence of set design, Scenic Design (The Hewes Awards) for Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, Outstanding Set Design of a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Hunting and Gathering, Outstanding Set Design of a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Jack Goes Boating, Outstanding Set Design of a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Essential Self-Defense, Outstanding Set Design (Kevin Kline Awards) for Ace, Outstanding Scenic Design (The Lortels) for Jack Goes Boating, Outstanding Scenic Design (The Lortels) for Swimming in the Shallows, Outstanding Set Designs - Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Blackbird and Scenic Design (The Hewes Awards) for Blackbird.
David Korins has received numerous awards for his scenic design work, including the Outstanding Scenic Design award from the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Beetlejuice. He won the Hewes Design Award at The Hewes Awards for Chinglish, as well as for Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. Korins earned Outstanding Scenic Design from The Lortels for When the Rain Stops Falling and Outstanding Set Design of a Play from the Drama Desk Awards for Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. He received the Design award from the Obie Awards for sustained excellence in set design. Additionally, he was honored with Outstanding Set Design at the Kevin Kline Awards for Ace and Outstanding Set Designs - Play from the Drama Desk Awards for Blackbird. He also won Scenic Design at The Hewes Awards for Blackbird.
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