John Wulp designs and photographs

1946-2005

John Wulp (1928-) is an American set designer, theater producer, director, playwright, photographer, and teacher. His most commercially successful work, which he co-produced, was a Broadway production of Dracula, starring Frank Langella in the title role, that opened in 1977 and ran until 1980. Wulp's other notable productions include Lydie Breeze, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Red Eye of Love and O, Pioneers! . Edward Gorey and John Guare were his frequent collaborators. He has worked in New York City, Boston, Nantucket, and Maine.

As a young man, Wulp worked as a magazine editor and as a freelance photographer. Throughout his career, he shot his own photographs of theatrical performances, reference material, stage sets of his productions, and actors appearing in his plays.

Wulp taught theater at Playwrights Horizons Theater School at New York University in the 1980s, and later in his career taught kindergarten through twelfth-grade at the North Haven Community School in Maine. On This Island, a documentary broadcast in the early 2000s on PBS's Independent Lens program, focused on Wulp, his students, and life on North Haven Island. Wulp is also a painter whose works have been exhibited in galleries and sold as commissioned portraits. He currently lives on Vinalhaven Island, Maine (2016).