COURT WATSON (Set & Costume Designer)‘s design credits include King for a Day, Annie Get Your Gun, and Blizzard at Marblehead Neck (Glimmerglass Festival), Les Contes d’Hoffmann (National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing, directed by Francesca Zambello), La bohème (Wolf Trap Opera, directed by Paul Curran), Man of La Mancha (Central City Opera / Utah Opera, directed by Paul Curran), Baden-Baden 1927 (Gotham Chamber Opera, directed by Paul Curran), La Chauve-Souris (Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur), Jekyll & Hyde and West Side Story (Magdeburg, Germany), Man of La Mancha (Central City Opera), Carmen (Columbus Opera), Hänsel & Gretel, Spamalot, Annie, The Nutcracker, The Sound of Music, Jonny spielt auf, Die Fledermaus, der Himmel über Berlin / Wings of Desire, Wir gründen eine Bank, and Frau Luna (Salzburger Landestheater), Harlequinade, Don Quixote (Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet), Rockville and AIDA (Amstetten, Austria), Hairspray (Deutschestheater Munich), All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare Theatre Company), 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Liberty Smith, Little Shop of Horrors, and A Christmas Carol (Ford’s Theatre), Good News, Meet John Doe (Goodspeed), Kiss Me, Kate (Barter Theatre), One Man, Two Guv’nors, Evita, Gospel at Colonus (ZACH Theatre), Dance Dance Dance Encore! and Rollin’ Down the River (Hersheypark / RWS & Associates), Monster Stomp, Scrooge No More, Roll Out the Barrel, Illuminights: A Busch Gardens Encore (Busch Gardens, Williamsburg), Sea Lion High, O Wondrous Night, Clyde & Seamore’s Christmas Countdown, SeaWorld Celebrates Christmas – Sea of Trees, Winter Wonderland on Ice (SeaWorld, Orlando), Azul (SeaWorld, San Antonio), Cabaret, Lend Me a Tenor, Fiddler on the Roof, The Foreigner, Little Shop of Horrors, and Other People’s Money (Engeman Theatre), Jungle Books (CityDance Ensemble), Harvey and the Princess, It Must Be Him, Dear Edwina, Character, Frankenstein (Off-Broadway), The Stagedoor Canteen (National World War II Museum), Olympia Dukakis’ Another Side of the Island (Alpine Theatre Project), Blade to the Heat, Charm of Preparedness, and Getting Out (Baruch College), The Children (New York Musical Theatre Festival), Snake Lady, Rain Falls, and Landscape of the Body (New York University), Cherry Orchard (Columbia University), Betty’s Summer Vacation (Virginia Commonwealth University), 1940’s Radio Hour, Fully Committed (Barksdale Theatre), A Little Night Music, and Tartuffe (Opera VCU). He regularly collaborates with Directors Francesca Zambello, BT McNicholl, Carl Philip von Maldeghem, Andreas Gergen, and Christian Struppeck.

Court has been an Assistant Designer on numerous Broadway shows, including Guys & Dolls, Grease!, Lestat, Little Women, The Coast of Utopia, Cry*Baby, South Pacific, Mauritius, and High Fidelity working with Paul Tazewell, Derek McLane, Catherine Zuber and Anna Louizos. He was a Guest Designer on ABC’s All My Children and One Life to Live.

Court spent four seasons at The Lost Colony in Manteo, North Carolina. He is a two-time First Place winner at the Southeastern Theatre Conference and won the Region IV Barbizon Prize at the Kennedy Center/ American College Theatre Festival. His watercolors are in private collections throughout the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and have been exhibited in New York’s Leslie-Lohman Gallery. His work has also been featured in 100 Artists of the Male Figure.

Court holds an MFA from New York University and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.