EVAN ADAMSON

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Evan Adamson is an award winning set designer for musicals, plays, opera, and live entertainment, with 20 years of experience in the industry. He has designed productions throughout the United States, and has worked extensively abroad in Europe and Asia. A lifelong resident of New York, he currently resides in Manhattan.

As an Associate Set Designer, he has worked on Leopoldstadt (des. Richard Hudson) and Hello, Dolly! (des Santo Loquasto), and Illinoise des. Adam Rigg) which is currently running on Broadway.

His design of A Christmas Carol garnered the Big Easy Award for Best Set Design in 2019. Little Shop of Horrors and Mamma Mia were also honored with Florida's Broadway World Awards for Best Set Design in 2019 & 2018, respectively.

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Collectively, Evan has a total of 20 Broadway credits, half of which were nominated for, or won the Tony Award for Best Set Design.

As an Associate Set Designer, he has worked alongside over a dozen prolific designers, including renown artists:
Es Devlin, Julian Crouch, and Bob Crowley.

Most recently, Evan has a decade-long collaboration with with Santo Loquasto which began in 2015 with Shuffle Along, and continued through 2025 with Gypsy. Both of these productions were directed by George C. Wolfe and starred Audra McDonald.

Other notable productions include: Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler, The Music Man, starring Hugh Jackman and critically acclaimed Illinoise, directed and conceived by Justin Peck.

Evan has had the honor and pleasure of working extensively abroad, in both Europe and Asia, on 16 productions in 10 different countries.

He has contributed to several significant productions with the acclaimed Stage Entertainment, Most notably, the inaugural production of Beauty and the Beast at Teatro Nazionale in Milan, Stage Entertainment's first theatre in Italy. The production's success, subsequently brought Beauty and the Beast to Rome, inaugurating Teatro Branccio, SE's second theatre in Italy.
Additionally with Stage Entertainment, the original production of Der Schuh des Manitu, premiering in Berlin, Germany and the massively successful Ich war noch niemals in New York - a musical featuring the songs of Udo Jürgens, which was produced in the 3 different, German speaking countries and also made into a movie.

Other international highlights include the first Non-English language performance of Once, in Seoul, South Korea; the first international production of Aladdin, in Tokyo, and serving as a draftsperson for the Emmy nomimated Opening Ceremony of the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.