Scholarship and Biography
Cameron Anderson is an internationally acclaimed scenic and projection designer, and has designed extensively at the world's leading theater and opera companies. Recent international highlights include West Side Story for The Kilden Performing Arts Center in Norway and the Vancouver Opera, and Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra for the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. She collaborates on new plays, opera, and experimental site-specific works in New York City and in the Boston area, where she is an Assistant Professor of Theater Arts at Brandeis University. She recently designed a site-specific production of the world premiere of Clorilli, a newly discovered pastoral drama by Leonora Bernardi, at New York University’s Florence campus with director Eric Nicholson. Other recent projects include the entire three opera season at Opera Saratoga, The Niceties at the Huntington Theater Company, and Madame Butterfly at the Pacific Symphony. Recent New York City credits include: The Language of Trees, directed by Alex Timbers at The Roundabout Theater Company, A Feminine Ending, directed by Blair Brown for Playwrights Horizons, Underground for David Dorfman Dance at BAM, Massacre (Sing to Your Children), directed by Kate Whorisky at LAByrinth Theatre Company, Dead City, directed by Daniela Topol for New Georges, Heddatron, directed by Alex Timbers for Le Freres Corbusier, Fault Lines, directed by David Schwimmer for Naked Angels, and The Screwtape Letters, (309 performances at the West Side Theater in NYC), and enjoyed runs in Chicago and Washington D.C. and is still on a National Tour. Recent opera credits include A Triple Bill of Gianni Schicchi, Seven Deadly Sins and Les Mamelles de Tirésias, Three Decembers, A Little Night Music, and West Side Story, all directed by Ken Cazan at Central City Opera, The Barber of Seville at the Opera Theatre of St Louis, Das Liebesverbot at USC, La Cenerentola for Glimmerglass Opera, Maria Padilla for the Minnesota Opera, Cosi Fan Tutte for the Seattle Opera, Don Giovanni and La Bohème at Wolf Trap Opera, and Scenes of Gypsy Life for Gotham Chamber Opera.