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Alison Chitty Designer

Alison Chitty trained at St Martin’s School of Art Langridge, Stephen Pimlott and Francesca and Central School of Art and Design. She won an Zambello. She designed Turn of the Screw for BBC Arts Council bursary to the Victoria Theatre, Stoke- Television. on-Trent, where she became resident designer for seven years and designed over 40 productions. In Alison Chitty has advised on the design and 1979 she returned to to work at the construction of theatre buildings in Stoke-on- Hampstead Theatre, Riverside Studios, Royal Trent, Delhi and Johannesburg. Most recently she Shakespeare Company and the West End. was Concept Theatre Designer for Sir ’s new Rose Theatre in Kingston and was Associate She was resident designer at the National Theatre Designer at Chichester Festival Theatre 2003 – for 8 years. Her work there has included A Month 2005 where her productions included Merchant of in the Country, Don Juan, Much Ado About Venice, King Lear, The Seagull and The Master Nothing, Venice Preserv’d (British Drama Award), and Margarita. Antigone, Remembrance Of Things Past (Olivier award for Best Costume Design), and Fool For She is a frequent lecturer and advisor in theatre Love, which transferred to the West End. She design, and was director of the internationally received Olivier Award nominations for She renowned Motley Theatre Design School. Stoops to Conquer and Martine. She designed Sir Peter Hall’s productions of Antony and Cleopatra, Recent new productions include for the late Shakespeares and The Bacchae. Other Teatro alla Scala Milan and Royal House work with Sir Peter Hall includes Orpheus , Theodora for the Descending (Haymarket and Broadway) and The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and a revival Rose Tattoo (Playhouse). of Birtwistle’s The Minotaur for House, the premiere of Birtwistle’s The Cure with Alison Chitty has designed numerous opera a revival of The Corridor for the Aldeburgh productions in the UK and worldwide, including Festival and which then toured for Opera North; New to the Holland Festival, Pirates of Penzance with Year for Houston Grand Opera and Glyndebourne director Mike Leigh for , “Stylishly designed by Alison Chitty Festival; , The Bartered Bride, Two Thousands Years by Mike Leigh at the (winner Olivier Award Best Opera Production National Theatre, Voysey Inheritance (Olivier and directed by Stephen 1995) and Arianna for Royal Opera House Covent Award for Best Costume Design) also for the Langridge, the entire show reeks Garden; for Goteborg Opera; Jenufa for National Theatre, Days of Wine and Roses at the Dallas Opera; / I at Donmar Warehouse, for Teatro la Fenice of lavish production values” the ; Billy Budd in Geneva; Blond Venice, Betrothal in a Monastery in Toulouse and Anthony Holden, Eckbert, Modern Painters and Dialogue Des Paris, Ecstasy at the Hampstead Theatre and West Carmelites for Santa Fe Opera; End, La Forza del Destino for Opera Holland Park, (winner Olivier Award Best Opera Production Hippolite et Aricie for Nationale Reisopera 1994), Cosi fan tutte and La Vestale for English Holland, Birtwistle’s The Corridor for Bregenz and National Opera; Billy Budd in Paris, Dallas, Aldeburgh and A Midsummer Marriage for Houston and Los Angeles; Die Meistersinger in Chicago Lyric Opera. Copenhagen; for Opera de Paris; Der Fliegender Hollander and Giulio Cesare in Current productions include a Ring cycle at Bordeaux; L’Heure Espagnole and L’Enfant et les Göteborg Opera, directed by , Sortileges for Stichting Opera Zuid; Tristan und and Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea in Isolde in Chicago and Seattle; for her return to Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Bayerische Staatsoper ; in Geneva; The Last Supper for Staatsoper Berlin and She was awarded an OBE in 2004, received the Glyndebourne on Tour; Birtwistle The Io Passion Young Vic Award in 2008, was made a Royal for the Aldeburgh, Almeida and Bregenz festivals; Designer for Industry in 2009 by the Royal Society and Birtwistle The Minotaur which premiered at of Arts and received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Opera House in 2008. the University of the Arts London in 2013. .

Her production designs include several Mike Leigh

films, including Life Is Sweet, Naked and Secrets Valid for use until 1 September 2021 And Lies, winner of the Palm d’Or at Cannes and For updated versions please contact Academy Award Nominee for Best Picture. Other [email protected] directors she has worked with include Martin Duncan, Peter Gill, Edward Hall, Stephen

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