Jorge Cousineau
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The theatre artist and film maker Jorge Cousineau, who was born in Dresden, where he studied the Fine Arts, set design and painting, has been living in the USA since 1997, designing sets, lighting, sound and projections for many famous stages, including ones in New York City, Denver, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Louisville and Philadelphia.
He is working at Oper Frankfurt for the first time, on this new production of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf's Doctor and Pharmacist. Noteworthy productions were We Shall Not Be Moved, directed by Bill T. Jones, in Philadelphia, NYC and Amsterdam, The White Lama with Philip Glass and Tenzin Choegyal at the Annenberg Center Philadelphia, and Infinity, also with Philip Glass, and Arturo Bejar in London's Coronet Theatre. He worked with Louisa Proske at the Glimmerglass Festival and Detroit Opera on Rinaldo, and Primera Sueño in the Met Cloisters, and in Germany on Rusalka at Theater Regensburg, and Amadigi di Gaula at Oper Halle.
He was a member of New Paradise Laboratories in 2006, taking part on important projects including Fatebook, which represented the United States at the 2011 Quadrennial in Prague. He founded 1999 Subcircle in 1999, an innovative dance company which often combines immersive productions with film, and has been running an artist in residence programme in Maine since 2019. He received many awards during the course of his career, including several Barrymore Awards for outstanding design, the F Otto Haas Award, nominations for Drama Desk and an Emmy, the Lucille Lortel Award and a Pew Fellowship.