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Keith Ian Raywood (born October 1956) is an American production designer best known as Saturday Night Live (SNL) Art Director since 1985 and its Production Designer since 1990. He has designed music videos and live performances for major recording artists, international and national commercial spots, for MSG & MSG+ networks, and theatre productions both regional and in New York.

Raywood was born in New York City in October 1956, and lived between there and Miami Beach throughout his childhood. He attended The Dwight School, and studied painting at The Art Students League of New York with Issac Soyer.

In 1975, while enrolled at Cornell University for painting, he switched to architecture at the end of his freshman year, and then left for London to study at The Architectural Association School of Architecture. While there, he joined the unit that was tutored by renowned architects Bernard Tschumi and Nigel Coates.

In the spring of 1978, he traveled with a group of students led by Rem Koolhaas to the Soviet Union. Raywood credits his time at The AA as most inspiring and influential in his work, and it would later greatly inform his process, aesthetic, and "architectural" style as a production designer.

In 1979, he returned to Cornell's College of Architecture. While there, he formed the band Symbols, which released two EPs, and regularly performed in New York City clubs like CBGB's, Tramps, Danceteria, and Max's Kansas City.

Shortly after moving back to New York City in 1982, Raywood became the assistant to Eugene Lee on the film Easy Money. He worked as Lee's assistant and art director for the next three years on Lee's film, television, and theatre projects, eventually designing his own sets for music videos, commercials, television, and theatre. In 1985, he co-designed, with Lee, the original production of The Normal Heart at The Public Theater.

Raywood became the art director of Saturday Night Live in 1985, and has been credited as one of its production designers since 1990. As of 2024, he completed his 39th season with the show. In 2015, he co-designed the Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special. He has collaborated many times with current and former SNL performers and writers on a variety of projects, including Lip Sync Battle, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, 30 Rock, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and Tracy Morgan: Black and Blue.

On January 21, 2023, he made his first on-screen appearance in his then-38 years of working on the show, during the Cold Open (alongside fellow set designers Akira Yoshimura and Joe DeTullio).

SNL Career[]

  • 1985-1990: Art Director
  • 1990-present: Production Designer
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