Ted LeFevre (born July 8, 1964) is an American theatrical set designer.[1]
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He was born in Wilmington, Delaware,[1] and has worked in and around New York City since 1990. At the Trump Plaza Hotel in Atlantic City, he designed the sets for Anything Goes, Cabaret, 42nd Street and Singin' in the Rain, as well as a revue of Stevie Wonder's songs for the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas starring Chaka Khan.
Ted has Art Directed for television since 2010, for NBC's Mercy, designed by John Kasarda, DirectTV's Damages season four, designed by Edward Pisoni, and for CBS' A Gifted Man, whose pilot was directed by Jonathan Demme and designed by Stuart Wurtzel. Starting in 2009, he assistant art directed two seasons of USA's Royal Pains for Ray Kluga, the first episode of CBS' The Good Wife for Stephen Hendrickson, and the start of the second season of HBO's Boardwalk Empire for Bill Groom.
LeFevre was the associate to Bob Crowley for the 2000 production of Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida, which won a Tony Award for "Best Scenic Design". He worked again with Crowley on Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love at Lincoln Center in 2001; the show was nominated for a Tony Award and won the Drama Desk Award for "Best Design of a Play".
LeFevre also worked on Broadway with John Doyle on the 2005 Sweeney Todd revival, with Derek McLane on the 2007 Grease revival, and Robert Jones on Stoppard's play Rock 'n' Roll in 2007, as well as The Sound of Music in Toronto in 2008. He was the associate designer on other Broadway play revivals The Country Girl, directed by Mike Nichols, and Boeing-Boeing in 2008, and Blithe Spirit, for which Angela Lansbury won a Tony, and Exit the King, for which Geoffrey Rush won a Tony, in 2009.
Among LeFevre's Off-Off-Broadway premieres are play productions at Circle Rep Lab, the H.B. Playwrights' Foundation, Pulse Ensemble, EST/Playwrights' Collective, Naked Eye/Kasbah Project and two seasons as the resident designer for the Miranda Theatre Company. LeFevre also worked for two seasons in New York designing classics and new works for the American Globe Theatre.
Regional credits range from Fairfield County Stage Company to Princeton University and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and the John W. Engeman Theatre in Northport, Long Island. Related work includes the TV-Land Mall Tour and “Gullah Gullah Island Live” shows for Nickelodeon Entertainment, a double bill for the Bronx Opera Company, and two teleplays for WQED-TV in Pittsburgh.
LeFevre's designs for the new musical Ebenezer in New York during Christmas of 1996 led to work on twelve summer shows for Surflight Theatre in Beach Haven, New Jersey during their 1998 and 1999 seasons, then Gigi in 2001, On the Town in 2002, Fiddler on the Roof in 2003, State Fair and "Anything Goes" in 2004 , Shenandoah in 2005, "Annie Get Your Gun" in 2006, "Aida" in 2007, "All Shook Up" and "The Will Rogers Follies" in 2008, "Hairspray" in 2009, and "The Drowsy Chaperone" in 2010.
His assistant design work includes ten international and touring companies of Beauty and the Beast, two new musicals at Goodspeed Opera, and both A Christmas Carol at Madison Square Garden and Carnevale at Radio City for Tony Walton. He also worked on productions Of Spamalot and Phantom in Las Vegas. In addition, Ted has drafted and built models for sixteen new productions at the Metropolitan Opera, and done renderings for dozens of commercials and industrials.
Ted drafted the 2003 Broadway season's Tony-nominated Hairspray, designed by the Rockwell Group, as well as Eugene Lee's Tony-award-winning set design for 2004's Wicked, and both "The Wedding Singer" and "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" for Scott Pask in 2005.
LeFevre's undergraduate degree in Art (abstract oil painting) is from Brown University, where he joined the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, and his MFA in Scenic Design is from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a member in good standing of United Scenic Artists Local 829 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees since 1992. He and his partner of twenty three years are the fathers of twin sons.