Awards & Winners

Rouben Ter-Arutunian

Date of Birth 24-July-1920
Place of Birth Tbilisi
(Georgia)
Nationality Georgia
Profession Production Designer, Costume Designer, Set Designer, Art Director
Rouben Ter-Arutunian was a costume and scenic designer for dance, opera, theater and television. Born in Tiflis, Georgia, he attended the Reimann Art School from 1939 to 1941, studied film music at the Hochschule fur Musik and took courses at the Friedrich-Wilhelm University, 1941–43, and at the University of Vienna, 1943-44. He first designed costumes for dancers of the Berlin Staatsoper in 1940, going on to design for the Dresden Opera and the Vienna State Opera. He moved to New York in 1951. In 1964 he designed the sets for the New York City Ballet production of The Nutcracker. He worked with the New York City Opera company, Hamburg State Opera, La Scala in Milan, the Opera-Comique in Paris and the Spoleto Festival in Italy. He designed either costumes or sets, sometimes both, for 24 Broadway productions. His first production on Broadway was Measure for Measure in 1957, and his last was Goodbye Fidel in 1980. He won the 1959 Tony Award for Best Costume Design for the musical Redhead, and was nominated for the Tony Award three times for Scenic Design and one other Tony for Costume Design. The Rouben Ter-Arutunian Design Portfolios and the Rouben Ter-Arutunian Papers are held by the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Awards by Rouben Ter-Arutunian

Check all the awards nominated and won by Rouben Ter-Arutunian.

1975


Nominations 1975 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design Goodtime Charley

1964


Nominations 1964 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Costume Design Arturo Ui

1962


Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design A Passage to India

1961


Nominations 1961 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play Advise and Consent

1959


Tony Award for Best Costume Design
Honored for : Redhead

Nominations 1959 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Tony Award for Best Costume Design Redhead

1958


Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Set Design
Honored for : Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Art Direction
Honored for : Hallmark Hall of Fame
(Twelfth Night)

Nominations 1958 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Set Design Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?
Primetime Emmy Award for Best Art Direction Hallmark Hall of Fame
Twelfth Night