Neil Patel
Born in Wales, raised in Wisconsin and living in New York City, Neil’s design work has been seen in feature films, television series, commercials, Broadway and West End plays and musicals, international operas as well as exhibitions for the Venice Biennale.
Current projects include Laurence Fishburne’s LIKE THEY DO IT IN THE MOVIES at the PAC NYC, Antoine Fuqua’s KING SHAKA (CBS/Showtime) and David Byrne’s THEATER OF THE MIND (Denver Center for Performing Arts/Arbutus).
Notable film and television projects include DICKINSON for AppleTV+ (Peabody Award), PRETTY LITTLE LIARS:ORIGINAL SIN for HBOMAX, SOME VELVET MORNING (TriBeCa Film Festival) for TriBeca Films, IN TREATMENT for HBO (Peabody Award), DIL DHADAKNE DO and LITTLE BOXES (TriBeCa Film Festival) for Netflix.
Commercial and music video work includes THE RECEIPT (AICP Shortlist) directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen and the TWENTY ONE PILOTS-LIVESTREAM EXPERIENCE directed by Jason Zada.
Designs for theater, dance and opera have been seen on Broadway (where he designed the Tony Award winning Side Man), the West End, Public Theater, American Repertory Theater, Steppenwolf Theater, Goodman Theater, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Gate (Dublin), Parco Theater (Tokyo), Edinburgh International Festival, Chicago Lyric Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Washington National Opera, Glimmerglass Festival among many others. Recent productions include CIVILIZATION TO NATION:THE GREAT INDIAN MUSICAL which was the inaugural production for the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Center in Mumbai, MUGHAL E AZAM in Mumbai, New Delhi and worldwide tour, FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (PARTS 1,2&3) at the Royal Court in London and TIME AND THE CONWAYS on Broadway. Member of the SITI Company with whom he has designed many productions including WAR OF THE WORLDS and HOTEL CASSIOPEIA for the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival.
Exhibition designs include SPACE FORCE CONSTRUCTION for the VAC Foundation at the Palazzo Zattere which was included in the 2017 Venice Biennale.
Neil has twice been honored with an OBIE award for Sustained Excellence, won the Helen Hayes Award and has been nominated many times for Hewes, Lortel and Drama Desk Awards. He is a graduate of Yale College and studied scenography at the Academia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan.