Oliver Wason is a designer and educator who is equally at home working in theater, opera, dance, music, or anything in between.
New York work includes Let’s Call Her Patty (LCT3 – Lincoln Center Theatre), ONCE UPON A [korean] TIME, The Chinese Lady, Among the Dead, House Rules (Ma-Yi Theatre Company); The Pen (Inner Voices), Sagittarius Ponderosa (NAATCO); Wonderland (Atlantic).
Oliver’s work in opera includes Butterfly, Carmen, Lucia di Lammermoor, Lady M, Kafka Fragments (Heartbeat Opera), Fidelio (Met Live Arts and Heartbeat Opera / National Tour), Empty the House (Curtis Opera); Erismena (Yale Baroque Opera); Agrippina (Juilliard Opera)
Regional credits include shows at Signature Theatre, Indiana Rep, Barrington Stage, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Berkshire Theater Festival, Playmakers Rep, and Triad Stage.
Oliver was the associate designer for A Doll’s House, Part 2 on Broadway, and designed the Chinese Premiere of Stones in His Pockets at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center.
Oliver is currently an Assistant Professor at Western Connecticut State University. BA Hunter College, MFA Yale.