David Gropman

{{short description|American production designer}}

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|name = David Gropman

|birth_name = David Lloyd Gropman

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|06|16}}

|birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.

|occupation = Production designer{{Cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/photos/2013/02/life-of-pi-ang-lee-production-design-oscar-nomination|title=Sketch to Still: Life of Pi Designer David Gropman on Creating a Magical Island and 1950s Paris on a Taiwanese Tarmac|work=Vanity Fair|first=Julie|last=Miller|date=February 15, 2013|access-date=November 2, 2021}}

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David Lloyd Gropman (born June 16, 1952) is an American production designer.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2013/02/oscars-life-of-pi-re-created-parisian-pool-for-key-scene-431962/|title=OSCARS: ‘Life Of Pi’ Production Design|author=The Deadline Team|work=Deadline Hollywood|date=February 12, 2013|access-date=November 2, 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/style/london-insider-reveals-best-places-eat-stay-play-1182631/|title=London Insider Reveals Best Places to Eat, Stay and Play|first=Richard|last=Morais|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=February 8, 2019|access-date=November 2, 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/toronto-holds-style-88-hairspray-143740/|title=Toronto holds style of ’88 ‘Hairspray’|author=AP News|work=The Hollywood Reporter|date=July 8, 2007|access-date=November 2, 2021}} He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the category Best Production Design for the films The Cider House Rules and Life of Pi.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2000|title=The 72nd Academy Awards (2000) Nominees and Winners|work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date=November 2, 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2013|title=The 85th Academy Awards (2013) Nominees and Winners|work=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|access-date=November 2, 2021}}

Gropman also works in the theatre, and was the scenic designed for 10 Broadway shows: The 1940's Radio Hour (1979), Billy Bishop Goes to War (1980), Passione (1980), Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music (1981), Mass Appeal (1981), Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), A Little Family Business (1982), Open Admissions (1984), Death and the King's Horseman (1987), and The Comedy of Errors (1987).{{IBDB name|david-gropman-26210}} Gropman also worked Off-Broadway, designing productions at the Promenade Theatre, Circle in the Square Theatre, the Provincetown Playhouse in Manhattan, The Public Theater, the Lucille Lortel Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, and Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage 73 between 1979 and 1985.{{iobdb name|9603}}