Barbara Patricia Woodbridge

Background

Barbara Patricia Woodbridge was born on August 9, 1946, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She is a daughter of J. Eliot Woodbridge, a scientist, and Carol Woodbridge, maiden name Cobum, a homemaker.

Education

In 1965-1969, Patricia Woodbridge studied at Bennington College and earned a Bachelor of Arts. In 1970-1973, she studied at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and earned a Master of Fine Arts.

Career

Patricia Woodbridge began working for theaters in 1975. She was a set designer for Dispatches, New York Shakespeare Festival, New York City, 1979; Personals, American Place Theatre, New York City, 1980; How I Got That Story, Chelsea Westside Theatre, New York City, 1982; Triple Feature, Stage 73, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City, 1983; Who Will Carry the Word?, Judith Anderson Theatre, New York City, 1993. She is also a designer for ballets and operas. Since 1990, she has been an art director of many movies, the latest of which are The Bounty Hunter (2010), Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011), Hope Springs (2012), Annie (2014), and Ricki and the Flash (2015). Woodbridge also worked as art director on Saturday Night Live and The News Is the News, NBC. In 1977-1991, Woodbridge was an instructor of the design department at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. In 1991, she was a master teacher at Tulane University. In 2009-2010, she worked as a Professor of Production Design at Savannah College of Art and Design.

Achievements

• During her career, Patricia Woodbridge has participated in the production of many famous awards-winning movies. She also has many set designs to her credit. In 1986, she was nominated for Helen Hayes Award for outstanding set design.

Works

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• book

  • Designer Drafting and Visualizing for the Entertainment World

    (In the second edition of Designer Drafting and Visualizat...)

    2012
  • Designer Drafting for the Entertainment World

    (Designer Drafting for the Entertainment World provides es...)

    2000

• movie

  • Hope Springs

    (After decades of marriage, a devoted couple (Meryl Streep...)

    2012
  • Mona Lisa Smile

    (Julia Roberts stars as a novice art history professor wit...)

    2003
  • The Object Of My Affection

    (Straight Jennifer Aniston and her gay roommate Paul Rudd ...)

    1998
  • My Super Ex-Girlfriend

    (A man who dumps his long-time girlfriend discovers his ex...)

    2006
  • Cadillac Man 1990
  • Ricki and the Flash 2015

• Movied

  • The Bounty Hunter

    (Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, two exes continually ...)

    2010
  • I Am Legend

    (Robert Neville is a brilliant scientist, but even he coul...)

    2007

Politics

Patricia Woodbridge is an adherent of democratic political views.

Membership

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  United Scenic Artists Local 829 , United States

• League of Professional Theatre Women , United States

• New York Women in Film , United States

Connections

Patricia Woodbridge married Robert G. Dunn, a writer, educator, and photographer, on August 24, 1988.

Father:

J. Eliot Woodbridge

Mother:

Carol Woodbridge

husband:

Robert G. Dunn

Robert Dunn is a United States writer, teacher, and photographer. He has published widely, including work in The New Yorker and an O. Henry Prize story, as well as the novels Pink Cadillac, Cutting Time, Soul Cavalcade, Meet the Annas, Look at Flower, Stations of the Cross, and, in 2017, Savage Joy. Dunn has worked for The New Yorker magazine and Sports Illustrated. For years, he has taught fiction writing at The New School. In 2017, he launched the school's first course on photobooks. He was also the first person to teach an accredited online fiction writing course anywhere. In the 1980s, he was the novelist Bernard Malamud's personal assistant. Dunn is also a serious photographer: his photobooks OWS, Angel Parade, A Carnival of Souls, and others are in the permanent collection of the International Center of Photography; OWS was in a show at the Cincinnati Art Museum. His photos have also appeared in an ICP show.