John Wulp

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John Wulp (b. May 31, 1928) is an award winning American scenic designer, producer, and director.[1] Wulp won a Tony Award for Best Revival for his production of Dracula in 1978. He also received a Tony Award nomination and won a Drama Desk Award for his designs in the 1979 production of Crucifer of Blood. The show also was performed at the Royal Haymarket Theatre in London and at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles for which Wulp won an Outer Critics' Circle Award, and a Los Angeles Drama Critics' Award. For Wulp's first play, The Saintliness of Margery, he won a Rockefeller Grant, and for his direction of Red Eye of Love, produced off Broadway, he won an OBIE Award. Wulp's other Broadway credits include Passione, Bosoms and Neglect, and Gorey Stories.[2]

Wulp is the founder and was for several years the director of the Playwrights' Horizons Theater School at New York University. He currently resides in Vinalhaven, Maine where he taught drama at the North Haven Community School for many years. Wulp retired from teaching in 2005 and is a former U.S. Marine.[3]

Awards
Preceded by
Robin Wagner
for On the Twentieth Century		 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design
1978-1979
for The Crucifer of Blood		 Succeeded by
John Lee Beatty
for Talley's Folly

[edit] References

  1. ^ Retirement Won't Diminish Theater Director's Influence - Health - redOrbit
  2. ^ Internet Broadway Database: John Wulp Credits on Broadway
  3. ^ Independent Lens . ON THIS ISLAND . The Cast | PBS
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