Designer
David Guthrie
(1927 - 2004)
DAVID GUTHRIE worked as a close associate of Dennis Nahat for 35 years designing the scenery and costumes for more than 65 Ballet San Jose productions including THE NUTCRACKER, SWAN LAKE, COPPÉLIA, ROMEO AND JULIET, US, GAÎTÉ PARISIENNE, CELEBRATIONS AND ODE, PIANO MAN, RIVULET, GRADUATION BALL, and A POLOVTSIAN TALE.
Mr. Guthrie won the 1989 Peggy Ezekiel Award for his costume designs for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. He also designed productions for American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, José Limón Dance Company and Pacific Northwest Ballet.
A recognized stage director, Mr. Guthrie was in the theatre since he was 16 months old, and played in the original cast of the Our Gang series on Broadway and in television.
Mr. Guthrie gave lectures entitled "Don’t Sit in the Corner" in hospitals to those physically challenged, as well as a popular series about his experiences in the ballet and theatre worlds called "How to Not Get a Real Job!"
Mr. Guthrie’s final works in collaboration with Nahat were new designs for GISELLE and THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.
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