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ShowbizU: Scenic Designer David Gallo on his Longtime Collaboration with August Wilson

Name: ShowbizU: Scenic Designer David Gallo on his Longtime Collaboration with August Wilson
Uploaded: 2014-09-02T19:26:18+00:00
Duration: 58 s
Channel: Tim Kashani
Description: In this interview excerpt, scenic designer David Gallo shares vivid personal anecdotes that illustrate his deep, long‑standing collaboration with…

2 Sept 2014 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, scenic designer David Gallo shares vivid personal anecdotes that illustrate his deep, long‑standing collaboration with playwright August Wilson. Gallo explains that he named his first child August and his second child Citizen, and even created an August‑themed bathroom and family environment, underscoring how intertwined his personal life became with Wilson’s work. He recounts that much of the design for Wilson’s play “King Hedley” was conceived during a taxi ride from Logan Airport to the Huntington Theatre, a process that spanned years and involved many collaborators. Gallo describes the partnership as something he fell into naturally, pursued deliberately, and that sustained itself over time, reflecting both his affection for Wilson’s material and the organic, improvisational nature of theatrical design.

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I named my firstborn child August, so that was a whole separate level of— and I named my second one Citizen. I don't know if you're aware of that. I have an August-themed family. I have an August-themed bathroom. I used to. We sold the apartment. With August, sometimes that happened in a taxi cab and it wasn't written yet. Hey, yeah, the next one, it's gonna be a backyard, and there's this big poster and it's of a woman in red lipstick. To backyard. I mean, King Hedley was largely designed on the taxi from Logan Airport in Boston to the Huntington Theatre. It went on for years and years. It was a collaboration that involved a lot of people, you know, but it was something that I just sort of fell into. It was what I definitely wanted to do. I pursued that, and it just kind of worked for years. Mm-hmm.