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DesignerMark Thompson
Training: drama at Birmingham University.
Theatre includes: most recently, Joseph… (Adelphi), The Rose Tattoo (NT), Kean (UK tour and Apollo), Piano/Forte (Royal Court), The Alchemist (NT), On the Third Day (New Ambassadors), And Then There Were None (Gielgud), Once in a Lifetime (by Kaufman and Hart) and Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (NT), The Woman Before and Wild East (Royal Court), costumes only for Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night (Donmar Warehouse & BAM), sets and costumes for The Duchess of Malfi (NT), Bombay Dreams (Apollo Victoria and Broadway), Follies (Broadway), Mouth to Mouth (Royal Court), Life x 3 (NT, Old Vic and Broadway), Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales, Prince Edward, Toronto, US tours, Broadway, Japan, Germany and Australia), Alan Bennett’s The Lady in the Van starring Maggie Smith (Queen’s), the musical Doctor Dolittle (Apollo, Hammersmith, and tour), Blast (Apollo, Hammersmith, US tour and Broadway) and The Blue Room (Donmar and Broadway). Also, rep at Worcester, Exeter, Sheffield, Leeds, Jumpers, The Country Wife, Mumbo Jumbo (also Lyric, Hammersmith) and The School for Scandal (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Owners (Young Vic), Good (Brussels), The Scarlet Pimpernel (Chichester and Her Majesty’s), Cabaret (Strand), The Sneeze (Aldwych), Ivanov and Much Ado About Nothing (Strand), A Little Night Music (Piccadilly), Shadowlands (Queen’s and Broadway), Joseph… (London Palladium, Canadian, Australian and American tours), Six Degrees of Separation (Royal Court and Comedy), Hysteria (Royal Court and Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles), The Kitchen (Royal Court), Insignificance and Company (Donmar and Albery), Art (Wyndham’s, UK tour, Australia, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Los Angeles and Broadway), Neverland (Royal Court) and The Front Page (Donmar). RSC: Measure for Measure, The Wizard of Oz, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet and The Unexpected Man. Almeida:Volpone, Betrayal, Party Time and Butterfly Kiss. NT: The Wind in the Willows, The Madness of George III and Arcadia (Haymarket, Lincoln Center Theater, New York), Pericles, What the Butler Saw and The Day I Stood Still.
Awards: 1990-91 Olivier, Plays and Players and Critics’ Circle Awards for The Wind in the Willows, 1992 Olivier Set Design and Costume Design Awards for Joseph… and The Comedy of Errors, 1994 Olivier Set Design Award for Hysteria, 1995 Critics’ Circle Award for The Kitchen, Olivier Award nomination 2003 and Tony Award nomination 2004 for Best Costume Designer for Bombay Dreams.
Opera includes: Macbeth (Metropolitan, New York), Falstaff (Scottish Opera), Peter Grimes (Opera North), Ariadne auf Naxos (Salzburg), Il Viaggio a Reims (ROH), Hansel and Gretel (Sydney Opera House), The Two Widows (ENO) and Queen of Spades (Metropolitan, New York). Costume design only for Montag aus Licht (La Scala, Milan).
Ballet includes: Don Quixote (Royal Ballet).
Film includes: costume design for The Madness of King George.