Emmy Winner David Rockwell Joins Board of Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Tony Award nominee, Emmy Award winner, and world-renowned designer and architect David Rockwell has joined the board of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in Manhattan, according to a report in The New York Times. Rockwell, who is founder and chief executive of Rockwell Group, has served on the museum’s exhibitions committee since 2006.

Rockwell received a Tony Award nomination for his work on Hairspray. He will be represented on Broadway in the coming year with his designs for the musical Elf and John Guare’s A Free Man of Color, and designed the sets for Catch Me If You Can, which played Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre and will reportedly open on Broadway in 2011. His other theater credits include the Broadway and touring productions of Legally Blonde, All Shook Up, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Rockwell designed the sets for the 2009 and 2010 Academy Awards, winning an Emmy Award for the latter and an Emmy nomination for the former.

Among the firm’s many projects are W hotels in Union Square and Paris, the Elinor Bunin-Munroe Film Center at Lincoln Center, the new restaurant at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Imagination Playground at the South Street Seaport, which is meant to encourage children to design their own play space.