Arnulfo Maldonado is a New York City based set and costume designer. He is a Tony Award® Nominee for Best Scenic Design of a Musical for the Broadway production of A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson (Lyceum Theatre, dir: Stephen Brackett). In addition, Arnulfo received the 2020 Obie for Sustained Excellence in Set Design, as well as a Special Citation Obie as part of the Creative Team of the Pulitzer Prize winning A Strange Loop by Michael R. Jackson. Arnulfo is a recipient of a Princess Grace Fabergé Theater Award and a multiple Henry Hewes Design nominee.
Recent notable credits include the Broadway premiere of David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face (Todd Haimes Theatre), the world premieres of John Leguizamo’s The Other Americans (Arena Stage), Dead Outlaw (Audible Theater), Buena Vista Social Club (Atlantic Theater Company) and Real Women Have Curves, the Musical (American Repertory Theatre). Additional notable credits include the aforementioned world premiere of Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons), as well as The 20th Anniversary production of Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks (Golden Theatre, Broadway), directed by Kenny Leon, Clare Barron's Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons), Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls, Or; The African Mean Girls Play (MCC Theater), Jaclyn Backhaus' Men On Boats (Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights Horizons), and Donja R. Love’s Sugar In Our Wounds (Manhattan Theater Club, Lucille Lortel Award Outstanding Scenic Design recipient) . In addition he has also designed the New York premieres of Christopher Chen's Caught (The Play Company)/Passage (Soho Rep) and George Brant's Grounded (Page 73). U.S. premieres include Anne Washburn’s Shipwreck (Woolly Mammoth/Public Theater) and debbie tucker green's generations (Soho Rep). Arnulfo designed the regional premieres of Paula Vogel's Indecent (Guthrie Theater), Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' An Octoroon (Berkeley Rep), and Lucas Hnath's Hillary and Clinton (Philadelphia Theatre Company). In 2017 he designed the international world tour for The Magnetic Fields in support of their album 50 Song Memoir.
New York credits include: Atlantic Theater Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Classic Stage Company, Lincoln Center Theater, The New Group, New York Theater Workshop, MCC Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Public Theater, Roundabout Theater Company, Second Stage, Signature Theater Company, Soho Rep.
Regional credits include: American Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Barrington Stage Company, Berkeley Rep, Center Theater Group, Guthrie Theater, Cleveland Play House, Minnesota Opera, Opera Theatre of St Louis, San Francisco Ballet, Steppenwolf Theater, Two River Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theater Festival, Woolly Mammoth.
Collaborators have included: Saheem Ali, Clare Barron, Jo Bonney, Stephen Brackett, Rachel Chavkin, David Cromer, Scott Elliott, Lee Sunday Evans, Will Davis, Daniel Fish, Daniel Alexander Jones, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Kenny Leon, Patricia McGregor, Isaac Mizrahi, Tyne Rafaeli, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Ken Rus Schmoll, Leigh Silverman, Niegel Smith, Rebecca Taichman, Eric Ting, Chay Yew, among others.
Arnulfo is a Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist. Credits include Ethan Lipton's Luther, Jenny Schwartz's 41-derful, Men on Boats, and The World My Mama Raised.
In addition, Arnulfo served as a Resident Scenic Designer of the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
He has exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial, the international exhibition of scenography and theatre architecture.
Arnulfo is a graduate of NYU Tisch’s Department of Design for Stage and Film.
Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.
