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American production designer

Santo Loquasto
Born	(1944-07-26) July 26, 1944 (age 80) Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Education	King's College, Pennsylvania (BA) Yale University (MFA)
Occupation(s)	Production designer, scenic designer, costume designer
Years active	1969–present

Santo Richard Loquasto (born July 26, 1944) is an American production designer, scenic designer, and costume designer for stage, film, and dance.

Early life and education

Loquasto was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on July 26, 1944. Loquasto is a first cousin of Indy car driver Al Loquasto and a distant cousin of civil engineer and author Angelo F. Coniglio. The family is descended from Libertino lo Guasto, a foundling born in Serradifalco in 1796.

He obtained a Bachelor of Arts from King's College and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University.

Career

Loquasto started his career as a designer at the Showcase Theatre in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

After working in regional theater since 1969, Loquasto worked on approximately 100 Broadway productions, either as scenic designer, costume designer, or both. His first Broadway production was Sticks and Bones in 1972, and his most recent productions have been Carousel and The Iceman Cometh, both in 2018. He has received 21 Tony Award nominations for his work as either costume or scenic designer, and has won four times. He has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design three times, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design once.

Loquasto has been a production designer for many Woody Allen films, and was nominated for the Academy Award for his production design for Allen's Bullets over Broadway and Radio Days, and for costume design for Zelig.

His work has included the films Big, Radio Days, Cafe Society, Blue Jasmine, Desperately Seeking Susan, Alice, and Zelig. His work on stage is extensive and includes Hello, Dolly!, Movin' Out, Fosse, Ragtime, The Cherry Orchard, Grand Hotel, Cafe Crown, the ballet Don Quixote, Glengarry Glen Ross, and Fences.

Loquasto has won a British Academy Film Award, five Drama Desk Awards, and has garnered four Tony Awards. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a total of twenty-three Tony Awards. In 2004, Loquasto was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

In 2023, Loquasto was inducted into the Luzerne County Arts & Entertainment Hall of Fame. He was inducted as a member of the Hall of Fame's inaugural class.

Tony Awards

Best Costume Design:

1977: The Cherry Orchard (tied with Theoni V. Aldredge for Annie)
1990: Grand Hotel: The Musical
2017: Hello, Dolly!

Best Scenic Design:

1989: Cafe Crown

Selected theatre credits

1972 – Sticks & Bones
1972 – That Championship Season
1975 - Kennedy's Children
1978 – King of Hearts
1979 – Bent
1990 – Grand Hotel, The Musical
2005 – Glengarry Glen Ross
2007 – 110 in the Shade
2009 – Waiting For Godot
2016 – Shuffle Along
2017 – Hello, Dolly! (2017 revival)
2018 – Carousel (revival)
2018 – The Iceman Cometh (revival)
2019 – Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andonicus

References

American Ballet Theatre (2007). "Santo Loquasto". ABT biography and credits. Retrieved March 21, 2010.
"FoundlingLibertinoLoGuasto". www.conigliofamily.com. Retrieved 2018-07-12.
"Loquasto's Broadway credits". Playbill. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
John J. O'Connor (March 30, 1993). "A Serious Show On Fox. Seriously". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
"The 67th Academy Awards (1995) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
"The 60th Academy Awards (1988) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org. Retrieved July 31, 2011.
Gregg Goldstein (June 22, 2007). "Woody Allen "Seduced" by Los Angeles Opera". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
"Stage veterans receive praise at induction". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved March 27, 2014.
"Luzerne County Arts & Entertainment Hall of Fame announces inaugural class". 25 March 2023.
Frank Rich (October 26, 1988). ""Cafe Crown", Bygone World of Yiddish Theater". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-05-10.

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Awards for Santo Loquasto

BAFTA Award for Best Production Design

1964–1967

Black and White	Ken Adam (1964) Ray Simm (1965) Tambi Larsen (1966) No Award (1967)
Colour	John Bryan (1964) Ken Adam (1965) Wilfred Shingleton (1966) John Box (1967)

1968–present

Ernest Archer, Harry Lange and Anthony Masters (1968)
Donald M. Ashton (1969)
Mario Garbuglia (1970)
Ferdinando Scarfiotti (1971)
Rolf Zehetbauer (1972)
Natasha Kroll (1973)
John Box (1974)
John Box (1975)
Geoffrey Kirkland (1976)
Danilo Donati and Federico Fellini (1977)
Joe Alves (1978)
Michael Seymour (1979)
Stuart Craig (1980)
Norman Reynolds (1981)
Lawrence G. Paull (1982)
Gianni Quaranta and Franco Zeffirelli (1983)
Roy Walker (1984)
Norman Garwood (1985)
Brian Ackland-Snow and Gianni Quaranta (1986)
Santo Loquasto (1987)
Dean Tavoularis (1988)
Dante Ferretti (1989)
Richard Sylbert (1990)
Bo Welch (1991)
Catherine Martin (1992)
Andrew McAlpine (1993)
Dante Ferretti (1994)
Michael Corenblith (1995)
Tony Burrough (1996)
Catherine Martin (1997)
Dennis Gassner (1998)
Rick Heinrichs (1999)
Arthur Max (2000)
Aline Bonetto (2001)
Dennis Gassner (2002)
William Sandell (2003)
Dante Ferretti (2004)
Stuart Craig (2005)
Jim Clay, Geoffrey Kirkland and Jennifer Williams (2006)
Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer (2007)
Donald Graham Burt and Victor J. Zolfo (2008)
Rick Carter, Robert Stromberg and Kim Sinclair (2009)
Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (2010)
Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo (2011)
Eve Stewart and Anna Lynch-Robinson (2012)
Catherine Martin and Beverly Dunn (2013)
Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock (2014)
Colin Gibson and Lisa Thompson (2015)
Stuart Craig and Anna Pinnock (2016)
Paul D. Austerberry, Jeff Melvin and Shane Vieau (2017)
Fiona Crombie and Alice Felton (2018)
Dennis Gassner and Lee Sandales (2019)
Donald Graham Burt and Jan Pascale (2020)
Patrice Vermette and Zsuzsanna Sipos (2021)
Florencia Martin and Anthony Carlino (2022)
Shona Heath, James Price and Zsuzsa Mihalek (2023)

v t e Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design
1969–1975	Tanya Moiseiwitsch / Patricia Zipprodt (1969) Willa Kim / Theoni V. Aldredge / Freddy Wittop (1970) Florence Klotz / Raoul Pene Du Bois (1971) Willa Kim / Theoni V. Aldredge (1972) Theoni V. Aldredge / Patricia Zipprodt (1973) Franne Lee / Carrie F. Robbins (1974) Geoffrey Holder (1975)
1976–2000	Florence Klotz (1976) Theoni V. Aldredge (1977) Florence Klotz (1978) Patricia Zipprodt (1979) Pierre Balmain (1980) Theoni V. Aldredge / Patricia McGourty (1981) William Ivey Long (1982) John Napier (1983) Theoni V. Aldredge (1984) Alexander Reid (1985) Lindsay W. Davis (1986) John Napier (1987) Maria Björnson (1988) William Ivey Long (1989) Santo Loquasto (1990) Patricia Zipprodt (1991) William Ivey Long (1992) Florence Klotz (1993) Howard Crabtree (1994) Florence Klotz (1995) Roger Kirk (1996) Howard Crabtree (1997) Julie Taymor (1998) Lez Brotherston (1999) Martin Pakledinaz (2000)
2001–2015	William Ivey Long (2001) Isaac Mizrahi (2002) William Ivey Long (2003) Susan Hilferty (2004) Tim Hatley (2005) Gregg Barnes (2006) Catherine Zuber (2007) Katrina Lindsay (2008) Tim Hatley (2009) Matthew Wright (2010) Tim Chappel and Lizzy Gardiner (2011) Gregg Barnes (2012) William Ivey Long (2013) William Ivey Long (2014) Catherine Zuber (2015)