Lance Kniskern is a freelance set designer in the Philadelphia Area. Favorite designs include: The Roommate, Intimate Exchanges, The Shoplifters, The Carols, Happy Birthday, This Is The Week That Is, and Broken Biscuits with 1812 Productions. Other design credits: Heir Apparent, The Tempest, The Gospel According To..., and Taming of The Shrew (2015 Barrymore Award Nomination for Best Set Design) with The Lantern Theater; The Merry Wives of Windsor with Delaware Shakespeare; A Christmas Carol: A Radio Play and Spamalot with Resident Theater Company; Godspell with Drexel University; Two Gentlemen of Verona with Shakespeare in Clark Park; Hairspray: The Musical (Broadway World’s Best Set Design in Philadelphia 2012) with Media Theatre. After six seasons as technical director at 1812 Productions, he is now Shop Manager at Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site.

 

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