Born in Virginia Beach, VA, Court Watson is a New York City based artist and Set and Costume Designer. As a child, he performed with the Hurrah Players and attended the Virginia Governor’s School for the Arts.
Virginia Opera credits include scenery and costumes for Samson et Dalila, La bohème, Earth to Kenzie, and Three Decembers. Further credits include King for a Day, Annie Get Your Gun, and Blizzard at Marblehead Neck (Glimmerglass Festival), Les Contes d’Hoffmann (National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing, directed by Francesca Zambello), bohème and Rigoletto (Wolf Trap Opera), Man of La Mancha (Central City Opera / Utah Opera), Baden-Baden 1927 (Gotham Chamber Opera), La Chauve-Souris (Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur), Jekyll & Hyde and West Side Story (Magdeburg, Germany), Madama Butterfly, Gianni Schicchi, and Carmen (Columbus Opera), Hänsel & Gretel, Spamalot, Annie, The Nutcracker, The Sound of Music, Jonny spielt auf, Die Fledermaus, Der Himmel über Berlin, Wir gründen eine Bank, and Frau Luna (Salzburger Landestheater), Harlequinade, Don Quixote (Gelsey Kirkland Academy of Classical Ballet), Rockville and AIDA (Musical Sommer Amstetten), Hairspray (Deutschestheater Munich), All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Guys & Dolls, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Liberty Smith, Little Shop of Horrors, and A Christmas Carol (Ford’s Theatre), Appalachian Spring, Jahreszeiten (Richmond Ballet), Hannah Senesh (National Yiddish Theatre), Good News!, Meet John Doe (Goodspeed), Kiss Me, Kate (Barter Theatre), One Man, Two Guv’nors, Evita, Gospel at Colonus (ZACH Theatre), Dance Dance Dance Encore! and Rollin’ Down the River (Hersheypark / RWS & Associates), Monster Stomp, Scrooge No More, Roll Out the Barrel, IllumiNights: A Busch Gardens Encore (Busch Gardens, Williamsburg), Sea Lion High, O Wondrous Night, Clyde & Seamore’s Christmas Countdown, SeaWorld Celebrates Christmas – Sea of Trees, Winter Wonderland on Ice (SeaWorld, Orlando), Azul (SeaWorld, San Antonio), Cabaret, Lend Me a Tenor, Fiddler on the Roof, The Foreigner, Little Shop of Horrors, and Other People’s Money (Engeman Theatre), Jungle Books (CityDance Ensemble), Hans Christian Andersen, Auntie Claus, Tuck Everlasting (Nashville Children’s Theatre), Harvey and the Princess, It Must Be Him, Dear Edwina, Character, Frankenstein (Off-Broadway), and The Stagedoor Canteen (National World War II Museum).
His watercolors are in private collections throughout the United States and Europe, and have been exhibited in New York’s Leslie-Lohman Museum, the Atlantic Gallery, Barnwood, and the Fire Island Pines Biennial. His work has been featured in E. Gibbons’ 100 Artists of the Male Figure, Murn Magazine, Falo Magazine and multiple volumes of Doable Guys.
Court has been an Assistant Designer on numerous Broadway shows, including Guys & Dolls, Grease!, Lestat, Little Women, The Coast of Utopia, Cry*Baby, South Pacific, Mauritius, and High Fidelity working with Paul Tazewell, Derek McLane, Catherine Zuber and Anna Louizos. He was a Guest Designer on ABC’s All My Children and One Life to Live.
Court holds an MFA from New York University and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.
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