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He has designed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, for Regional Theaters, International Theaters, T.V. Commercials, Feature Films, Television and "Saturday Night Live" Spoof Commercials. Broadway designs include The Flowering Peach, Trick, Slab Boys, The Babe, and national tours of Mrs. Klein, Sarafina, Annie, and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Recently he designed The Frugal Repast for the off-Broadway Abingdon Theatre Company. He was awarded an "Ab'ie" Award for best scenic design for the 2006-2007 season for that production. Mr. Recht has designed over 20 other Off-Broadway productions, such as God's Daughter, Straight Jacket, Collected Stories, Marc Salem's Mind Games, Mrs. Klein, Marc Salem's Mind Games Too and the sets for the 1999 and 2000 Drama Desk Awards Shows. He has designed over 200 shows for many regional theaters, such as: Asolo Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Florida Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theater, Florida Stage Co., Geva Theatre, Center Stage in Baltimore, and The George Street Theatre.
He has designed several feature films including; "The Search for One Eye Jimmy," " Almost Partners," and " The Sun and The Moon." Mr. Recht was also an art director or assistant art director on; " Exposed," "Amityville 2," Just Tell Me What You Want," "Deathtrap," and "The First Deadly Sin." He has worked extensively in television, including; "Another World (NBC)," "The DJ Kat Show (Fox)," " The Fred Friendly Seminars (PBS)," afternoon specials (ABC), and over 150 TV commercials, infomercials, and many commercial parodies for Saturday Night Live. Internationally he designed for The Wien Staatsoper Ballet – Vienna, Austria, The Stratford Festival – Ontario, Canada, The Sayde Bronfman Theater – Montreal, Canada, and The Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg, Canada.
Mr. Recht is a Professor of Theatre and Coordinator of the Design/Tech Theater Program at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, and a member of United Scenic Artists-Local 829. His work has been included in several exhibits, most notably; "Fifty Years of Yale Design" at the Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library, "100% Centennial" at the Regina Gouger Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University, "Fifty Years of Design at the White Barn Theater" at the White Barn Theater Museum, and "100 Years of America on Stage,) at the Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.. |
