CHRISTOPHER FITZER
SELECTED SCENIC DESIGNS
They Promised Her the Moon
by Laurel Ollstein
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
2020
Director - Giovanna Sardelli
Scenic Designer - Christopher Fitzer
Costume Designer - Cathleen Edwards
Lighting Designer - Steven B. Mannshardt
"Christopher Fitzer’s barrel-like, multilevel set, lit with vertical bands of light and a starry
sky above by Steven B. Mannshardt, creates a sense of spacious possibilities and the
rigorous discipline required to reach them."
-Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle Datebook
The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin
by Jessica Huang
San Francisco Playhouse
2022
Director - Jeffrey Lo
Scenic Designer - Christopher Fitzer
Costume Designer - Becky Bodurtha
Lighting Designer - Kurt Landisman
Projections Designer - Teddy Hulsker
"Lo’s actors deliver incandescent performances that seem to match Christopher Fitzer’s wondrous set design — a rotating box with endless morphing, unfurling compartments."
-Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle Datebook
A Doll's House, Part 2
by Lucas Hnath
Palo Alto Players
2020
Director - Jeffrey Lo
Scenic Designer - Christopher Fitzer
Costume Designer - Melissa Sanchez
Lighting Designer - Carolyn Guggemos
"[A] commandingly large door descends the wall of the mostly empty stage filling room- the white walls decorated in gigantic flowers and bows all same cornflower blue color as the door (part of Christopher Fitzer's simple but stunning set design.)"
-Eddie Reynolds, Talkin' Broadway
The Great Leap
by Lauren Yee
San Jose Stage Company
2021
Director - Jeffrey Lo
Scenic Designer - Christopher Fitzer
Costume Designer - Brooke Jennings
Lighting Designer - Michael Palumbo
Projections Designer - Christopher Fitzer
"Lo... puts the action on a slick and shiny set designed by Christopher Fitzer, which feels bigger than most sets that fit into San Jose Stage’s intimate space."
-David John Chávez, Bay Area Plays
It's a Wonderful Life:
A Live Radio Play
adapted by Joe Landry
from the screenplay by Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra, and Jo Swerling
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
2021
Director - Giovanna Sardelli
Scenic Designer - Christopher Fitzer
Costume Designer - Cathleen Edwards
Lighting Designer - Steven B. Mannshardt
"It’s delightful how fluid Sardelli moves the piece through space on Christopher Fitzer’s scrumptious set design, complete with illuminated applause signs to prompt the live studio audience."
-David John Chávez, The Mercury News
The Santaland Diaries
by David Sedaris
adapted by Joe Mantello
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
2017
Director - Jeffrey Lo
Scenic Designer - Christopher Fitzer
Costume Designer -Jill C. Bowers
Lighting Designer - Mia Kumamoto
"The scenic design of Christopher Fitzer is a real winner with its big Santa throne consisting of brightly colored candy canes, gingerbread men, and gumdrops."
-Eddie Reynolds, Talkin' Broadway
Marie & Rosetta
by George Brant
TheatreWorks Silicon Valley
2019
Director - Robert Kelley
Scenic Designer - Christopher Fitzer
Costume Designer - Jill C. Bowers
Lighting Designer - Steven B. Mannshardt
"The funeral home where they rehearse... is redolent of sadness to come, thanks to Christopher Fitzer’s set design, all plush blues and pinks and browns, and it’s lovingly lit... with a crepuscular glow that suggests ghosts behind the walls, under the coffins."
-Lily Janiak, San Francisco Chronicle Datebook
Laughter on the 23rd Floor
by Neil Simon
Hillbarn Theatre
2020
Director - Jeffrey Lo
Scenic Designer - Christopher Fitzer
Costume Designer - Melissa Sanchez
Lighting Designer - Michael Palumbo
Peter & the Starcatcher
by Rick Elice
Hillbarn Theatre
2018
Director - Jeffrey Lo
Scenic Designer - Christopher Fitzer
Costume Design - Y. Sharon Peng
Lighting Design - Michael Palumbo
"Christopher Fitzer’s robust, moveable set is an excellent backdrop for the majority of the action, [as] scenes take place in ship cabins, the bowels of the ship and, for the mermaid scene... underwater."
-Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News
Hold These Truths
by Jeanne Sakata
San Francisco Playhouse
Captial Stage (Sacramento)
2021
Director - Jeffrey Lo
Scenic Designer - Christopher Fitzer
Costume Designer - Christopher Fitzer
Lighting Designer (SF Playhouse) -
Heather Kenyon
Lighting Designer (Capital Stage) -
Michael Palumbo
Projections Designer - Teddy Hulsker
Oslo
by J. T. Rogers
Los Altos Stage Company
2020
Director - Gary Landis
Scenic Designer - Christopher Fitzer
Costume Designer - Lisa Rozman
Lighting Designer - Carson Duper
"Scenic designer Christopher Fitzer put together a set that can be quickly transformed from Mona's dining room, to her living room, to the negotiation room and more."
-Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News
The Three Musketeers
by Ken Ludwig
adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas
Douglas Morrisson Theatre
2019
Director - Steve Muterspaugh
Scenic Designer - Christopher Fitzer
Costume Designer - Y. Sharon Peng
Lighting Designer - Kevin Landesman