
Recent Off Broadway work: Walden (Second Stage), Jordans (Public), FLEX (Lincoln Center), Catch As Catch Can (Playwrights Horizons), Daddy (New Group & Vineyard), Pipeline (Lincoln Center), Venus (Signature), Good Person of Szechwan (Foundry & Public), Thunderbodies (Soho Rep). Over 100 regional credits including: Guthrie, Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep, Yale Rep, Huntington, Long Wharf, Woolly Mammoth, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Wilma Theater and Kennedy Center. Saunders’s opera credits include: The Apollo, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Spoleto, Opera Philadelphia, Glimmerglass. Internationally, Saunders has designed operas and plays in London, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Bruges, Barcelona, and Malmö. Saunders’s design work has been featured at the Prague Quadrennial, and he has received a Barrymore Award (Philadelphia), Audelco Award for Excellence in Black Theater (NYC) as well as a Drama Desk Award for Best Set Design (NYC). Training: MFA, Yale School of Drama. Saunders is a Pew Fellow and a Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. Associate Professor of Design at Swarthmore College. mattsaundersdesign.net