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Monday 1 June 2026
Normandy Sherwood is a writer, a director, and a scenographer/costumer in New York City. Recent work includes her curtain spectacular Psychic Self Defense (2024 OBIE Award) created as a part of HERE Arts Center’s HARP residency; The Mushroom created with Nikki Calonge, presented in the 2026 Exponential Festival; her work as scenographer/co-creator of Theater in Quarantine’s Phantom of the Opera (2025) and Nosferatu, a 3-D Symphony of Horror (2023) presented by NYU Skirball; as well as scenic and/or costume design for projects by Bailey Williams and Emma Horwitz and Lisa Fagan and Lena Englestein.
Her theatre company is the Drunkard's Wife, and from 2001-2017 she was a co-artistic director of the National Theater of the United States of America (RIP). She has designed costumes for Faye Driscoll, Tina Satter, Young Jean Lee, Rachel Chavkin/Anne Washburn and Kristin Marting. She has been an artist in residence at HERE, MacDowell, Yaddo. She’s a clinical associate professor in expository writing at New York University and has an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College.
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Monday 1 June 2026
Normandy Sherwood is a writer, a director, and a scenographer/costumer in New York City. Recent work includes her curtain spectacular Psychic Self Defense (2024 OBIE Award) created as a part of HERE Arts Center’s HARP residency; The Mushroom created with Nikki Calonge, presented in the 2026 Exponential Festival; her work as scenographer/co-creator of Theater in Quarantine’s Phantom of the Opera (2025) and Nosferatu, a 3-D Symphony of Horror (2023) presented by NYU Skirball; as well as scenic and/or costume design for projects by Bailey Williams and Emma Horwitz and Lisa Fagan and Lena Englestein.
Her theatre company is the Drunkard's Wife, and from 2001-2017 she was a co-artistic director of the National Theater of the United States of America (RIP). She has designed costumes for Faye Driscoll, Tina Satter, Young Jean Lee, Rachel Chavkin/Anne Washburn and Kristin Marting. She has been an artist in residence at HERE, MacDowell, Yaddo. She’s a clinical associate professor in expository writing at New York University and has an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College.
About HowlRound TV
HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based, peer-produced, open-access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world's performing arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and develop our knowledge commons collectively. Anyone can participate in this community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our contribute content page.
