Scenic Designer

Brian Prather has designed for Barrington Stage Company for over a decade with more than 30 BSC productions to his credit.  Designs include the premieres of Freud’s Last Session and Becoming Dr. Ruth, A Streetcar Named Desire, The North Pool, I Am My Own Wife, Fully Committed, A Picasso, Thief River, and premieres of musicals including The Burnt Part Boys, The Memory Show, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, Poolboy, and many others.  Brian has also taken BSC to New York and beyond, designing the Off-Broadway productions of The Burnt Part Boys, The Memory Show, and Becoming Dr. Ruth, as well as designing the long-running Freud’s Last Session Off-Broadway and in LA, Detroit, Houston, and Chicago (which won the Jeff Equity Best Set Design: Midsize award). Off-Broadway credits include the premiere of Patrick Barlow’s new adaptation of A Christmas Carol at St. Clements, Playwrights Horizons, The Transport Group, and Prospect Theatre Co. among others. Regional and other credits include: The Alley Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, TheaterWorks-Hartford, Virginia Rep., Delaware Theatre Co., The Hangar Theatre, Shakespeare on the Sound, and the Chung-mu Art Hall in Seoul, South Korea. Brian has taught design as full-time faculty at Alvernia University and Ithaca College, as well as serving as guest artist at NYU, Emerson College, and The Hartt School.