Arnulfo Maldonado is a New York City based set and costume designer. 

Notable design credits include the regional premiere of Paula Vogel's Indecent (Guthrie Theater), the world premiere of Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls, Or; The African Mean Girls Play and the NY premiere of Philip Dawkins' Charm​ (MCC Theater), the international tour of The Magnetic Fields' 50 Song Memoir, the West Coast premiere of An Octoroon​ (Berkeley Rep), the world premiere of Bryna Turner's Bull In A China Shop (Lincoln Center Theater), Christopher Chen's Caught (The Play Company), the world premiere of Men On Boats (Clubbed Thumb/Playwrights Horizons), the East Coast premiere of Lucas Hnath's Hillary and Clinton​ (Philadelphia Theatre Company), the world premieres of Anne Washburn's transadaption of Iphigenia In Aulis​ (Classic Stage Company), Max Posner's Judy (Page 73) and Jenny Schwartz and Todd Almond's IOWA (Playwrights Horizons), the U.S. premiere of debbie tucker green's generations (Soho Rep), the New York premiere of George Brant's Grounded (Page 73), Ain Gordon's Not What Happened (BAM's Next Wave Festival), and the U.S. premiere of Ivan Viripaev's Illusions (Baryshnikov Arts Center).  

New York credits include:  Brooklyn Academy of Music, Classic Stage Company, Ensemble Studio Theater, HERE Arts Center, Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, The Flea Theater, Foundry Theater, 59East59, Guggenheim Museum, The Juilliard School, MCC Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Public Theater, Soho Rep.

Regional credits include: Baltimore Center Stage, Barrington Stage Company, Berkeley Rep, Central City Opera, Cleveland Play House, Opera Theatre of St Louis, Peak Performances, Perseverance Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, Studio Arena, Two River Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theater Festival.

Collaborators have included: Saheem Ali, Rachel Chavkin, Lee Sunday Evans, Will Davis, Kip Fagan, Daniel Fish, Leah Gardiner, Daniel Alexander Jones, Isaac Mizrahi, Ken Rus Schmoll, Niegel Smith, Rebecca Taichman, Tazewell Thompson, Eric Ting, among others.

Arnulfo is a Clubbed Thumb Affiliated Artist. Credits include Ethan Lipton's Luther, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, Jenny Schwartz's 41-derful, directed by Schwartz, Men on Boats, written by Jaclyn Backhaus, directed by Will Davis and Ari Stess' The World My Mama Raised, directed by Kip Fagan.

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 Henry Hewes Design nominee, the recipient of a Princess Grace Theater Fellowship (Faberge Theater Award) and a graduate of NYU Tisch’s Department of Design for Stage and Film. 

Upcoming: Clare Barron's Dance Nation (Playwrights Horizons, dir: Lee Sunday Evans), Donja R. Love's Sugar In Our Wounds (Manhattan Theater Club, dir: Saheem Ali) and James Anthony Tyler's Artney Jackson (Williamstown Theater Festival, dir: Laura Savia)

Member United Scenic Artists Local 829.

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