John Iacovelli, professor of theatre and dance at UC Davis,
and alum Kent Nicholson are collaborating on the South Coast
Repertory Theatre’s upcoming production of Stephen Sondheim and
Hugh Wheeler’s award-winning musical “Sweeney Todd, The
Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” Iacovelli is scenic
designer and Nicholson is the dark musical’s director.
Scheduled to run Jan. 19 through Feb. 16, the musical explores
the desperate measures a wronged barber and his devious
bakeshop-owning landlady resort to in 19th century London.
Professor John Iacovelli shares his photographs of his set models
for the South Coast Repertory Theatre’s production of “Sweeney
Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.” The production runs in
Costa Mesa Jan. 19 through Feb. 16.
Design: Stage and TelevisionMFA, New York University, Scenic Design and Art Direction
Professor Iacovelli has designed more than 200 productions at
theaters across the nation, including the critically acclaimed,
TONY-nominated Broadway revival of Peter
Pan starring Cathy Rigby. The Academy of Television
Arts and Sciences awarded Iacovelli the coveted 2001 prime-time
Emmy Award for his art direction of the A&E broadcast of
Peter Pan. He also designed
The Twilight of The Godson
Broadway.
Kent Nicholson received his MFA from the Department of Theatre
and Dance in 1995. He returned to UC Davis in 2006 to
direct Death of a Salesman, which won
a Writers’ Choice Award for best theatrical production on a
university campus from the Sacramento News &
Review. New York directing credits include: 9
Circles (The Sheen Center), Long Story Short
(Prospect Theater), Five Flights (Rattlestick
Playwrights Theater), Wet (Summer Play Festival), and
Marry Harry (NYMF, American Theater Group).
