Richard HOOVER

Production and Stage Design

RICHARD HOOVER (Production Designer) has designed major projects for the stage and screen. He previously collaborated with director Brian Helgeland on the thriller “Payback.” His list of film credits also includes “Soul Men,” “Henry Poole is Here,” “North Country,” “The Mothman Prophesies,” “Girl, Interrupted,” “Cradle Will Rock,” “Apt Pupil,” and the Tim Robbins-directed films “Dead Man Walking” and “Bob Roberts.”

For the small screen, Hoover earned an Emmy nomination and won an Art Directors Guild (ADG) Award for the telefilm “Live from Baghdad.” He received his second Emmy nomination for the acclaimed HBO biopic “Temple Grandin.” Most recently, he served as the production designer on the HBO series “The Newsroom,” for which he garnered another ADG Award nomination. His television work also includes such longform projects as “Lackawanna Blues,” “The Hamburg Cell,” “Fail Safe,” “Heat Wave” and “Family of Spies”; the pilot of HBO’s “Entourage”; and David Lynch’s innovative series “Twin Peaks.”

Hoover, who has also designed extensively for the stage, won Tony and Drama Desk Awards for his work on Trevor Nunn’s production of Tennessee Williams’ “Not About Nightingales.” He also won an Evening Standard Award and received Olivier and London Critics Circle Award nominations for the play’s West End presentation at the Royal National Theatre. He has since received two more Drama Desk Award nominations, for “Bat Boy: The Musical” and the 2004 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “After the Fall.” In all, Hoover has designed more than 75 productions, including for the stages of New York’s Public Theatre, Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre, Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theater, and Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum, among others.