Dane Laffrey
Design Matters with Debbie Millman
Design Matters Media
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Dane Laffrey is a Tony-winning scenic and costume designer known for his bold, emotionally resonant work on productions like Parade, Once On This Island, and Spring Awakening. He joins to discuss his two decade career and recent set design for Maybe Happy Ending, a true tour de force and one of the most extraordinary stages on Broadway.
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| 0:40.8 | From the TED Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Millman. |
| 0:48.0 | On Design Matters, Debbie talks with some of the most creative people in the world about what they do, |
| 0:52.7 | how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on. On this episode, set designer Dane Laffrey |
| 0:58.9 | talks about his career and his design for the musical Maybe Happy Ending. Every minute and 17 seconds, |
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