Biography...
With a background in sculpture, Liliana Duque knows how to combine artistic vision with the practicality of set design. Recent collaborations include Powder Her Face for Skylight Music Theatre, Dido and Aeneas for Opera Piccola San Antonio, Candide and 110 in the Shade for the Douglass Morrisson Theatre, Carousel at Ash Lawn Opera, Waiting for Godot at the Marin Theater Company, Xerxes with West Edge Opera, Eccentricities of a Nightingale with the Aurora Theatre, and Wild Kate, As you like it, and Litter ACT Conservatory season, where she previously designed Riot and Volleygirls. Liliana is equally at home with opera having designed L'Elisir d'Amore for Teatro Sucre in Quito, Ecuador where she also designed Sweeney Todd, Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Carmen, and Dido and Aeneas. For Opera de Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia she has designed La nozze di Figaro, Madama Butterfly, Don Pasquale, and La Vie Parisienne. Other professional credits include The Beautiful and Forbidden: a Concert of Censored Opera for the Cincinnati Opera and Mud and The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World for the Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco
While a student at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, she designed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antigone, 4:48 Pshychosis, Die Opernprobe and Dreamwalker to name a few. In 2007, she was co-designer for the Ariodante that was included in the USITT Prague Quadriennale USA exhibition. She also won the 2005 Peggy Ezekiels Award in Design and Technical Achievement - USITT Ohio Region for her set design of The Life of Galileo. In 2001, she was awarded the Outstanding Student Achievement award from the International Sculpture Center for her work as a sculptor.
Liliana received her undergraduate degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 1997. In 1999, she came to the US on a Fulbright scholarship to continue her artistic studies. She holds a MFA in Sculpture and an MFA in Set Design from the University of Cincinnati. Liliana currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work is a combination of sculpture and set design.
While a student at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, she designed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Antigone, 4:48 Pshychosis, Die Opernprobe and Dreamwalker to name a few. In 2007, she was co-designer for the Ariodante that was included in the USITT Prague Quadriennale USA exhibition. She also won the 2005 Peggy Ezekiels Award in Design and Technical Achievement - USITT Ohio Region for her set design of The Life of Galileo. In 2001, she was awarded the Outstanding Student Achievement award from the International Sculpture Center for her work as a sculptor.
Liliana received her undergraduate degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 1997. In 1999, she came to the US on a Fulbright scholarship to continue her artistic studies. She holds a MFA in Sculpture and an MFA in Set Design from the University of Cincinnati. Liliana currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work is a combination of sculpture and set design.
