G.W. "Skip" Mercier, a Tony-nominated set and costume designer, died Thursday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Rowayton, Connecticut, a publicist announced.
He was 66. From his graduation from Yale School of Drama in 1983 to his death, Mercier worked on nearly 400 shows for the stage.
As a resident designer for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut, he collaborated on such seminal works as August Wilson's Fences and taught.
His first New York production, Lanford Wilson's Lemon Sky, starring Jeff Daniels and Cynthia Nixon, received praise in 1985 from Frank Rich of The New York Times, who applauded his "scrims, as gauzy with color as a Morris Louis canvas." He received his Tony.
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