Robert Perdziola was born in 1961 and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For over 30 years, he has worked as a costume and set designer for operas, ballets, and theatre throughout the United States, including the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Lyric Theatre of Chicago, American Ballet Theater, the Julliard School of Drama, and numerous Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. He has also worked internationally for productions at the Monte Carlo Opera, the Niedersächsische Staatsorchester in Hannover, the Garsington Opera in the United Kingdom, the Finnish National Ballet, the Saito Kinen Festival in Japan, and the Sydney Opera House. Perdziola has also worked extensively in the Washington, D.C. area, including at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia and Shakespeare Theatre Company, and been nominated for numerous awards, including receiving three Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Costume Design in 2001, 2002, and 2006.

is a two-part, thirteen-scene play by Tennessee Williams. Williams began working on the play in 1945 as , derived from his short stories "Oriflamme" and the work-in-progress "Yellow-Bird." The play premiered on Broadway at the Magic Box Theatre in March 1948, directed by Margo Jones, and ran for 102 performances. The story is set in the fictional town of Glorious Hill, Mississippi from the turn of the 20th century through 1916 and centers on the unlikely attraction between Alma, a Southern minister's daughter, and her neighbor John Buchanan, Jr., who grows to become a doctor and man of science.