William Dudley (designer)

Background

Career

• The Duchess of Malfi – 1971
• Man Is Man, Bertolt Brecht – 1971
• Anarchist – 1971Tyger – July 1971Cato Street – 1971
• The Good Natur'd Man – 1971
• Live Like Pigs – 1972
• I Claudius – 1972
• The Baker, the Baker's Wife and the Baker's Boy – 1972
• Rooted – March 1973
• Magnificence; Sweet Talk and The Merry-Go-Round – 1973
• Ashes – January 1974
• The Corn is Green – 1974
• Twelfth Night, director Peter Gill – August 1974
• Harding's Luck – December 1974
• Fish in the Sea – February 1975
• As You Like It – 1975
• The Fool – 1975
• The Norman Conquests – 1976
• Small Change, Peter Gill – July 1976
• As You Like It – May 1976
• Ivanov, director David Jones – September 1976
• The Cherry Orchard, director Peter Gill, – January 1978
• That Good Between Us – July 1977
• Lavender Blue – November 1977
• Touched – September 1977
• The World Turned Upside Down – 2 November 1978
• Has 'Washington' Legs? – 29 November 1978
• Billy Budd – 1978
• Dispatches – 6 June 1979
• Undiscovered Country – 20 June 1979
• Lark Rise to Candleford – 1979
• The Tales of Hoffman by Offenbach Royal Opera House – 1980
• Don Quixote – 1982
• Schweyk in the Second World War, Bertolt Brecht – 1982
• Small Change – 1983
• Cinderella, Pantomime – December 1983
• The Ring Cycle by Richard Wagner Bayreuth Festival – 1983
• The Mysteries: Doomsday/The Nativity/The Passion, designed and lit – 1985
• The Party – 1985
• Richard III – 1985
• Today – 1985
• Mutiny, David Essex musical – 1985
• The Critic/The Real Inspector Hound – 1985
• Edmond, David Mamet – 1985
• The Merry Wives of Windsor – 1986 and 1987
• Futurists – 1986
• Prairie du Chien/The Shawl – 1986
• Kafka's Dick – 1986
• Country Dancing – 1987
• Richard II – 1987
• Entertaining Strangers – 1987
• Girlfriends, Howard Goodall musical – 1987
• Waiting for Godot – 1987
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – 1988
• The Shaughran – 1988 and 1989
• The Changeling – 1988
• The Father, August Strindberg – 1988
• The Voysey Inheritance – 1989
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof New York – 1990
• Cunning Little Vixen by Janáček Royal Opera House - June 1990
• The Ship Harland and Wolf Shipyard, Glasgow – 1990
• Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti Lyric Opera, Chicago – November 1990
• Pygmailion by George Bernard Shaw NT Olivier – April 1992
• Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw Haymarket, London – June 1992
• The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartright NT Cottesloe – 1992
• The Big Picnic Harland and Wolf Shipyard, Glasgow – 1994
• My Night with Reg by Kevin Elyot Royal Court, London – 1994
• Persuasion by Jane Austen BBC – 1995
• Some Sunny Day by Martin Sherman Hampstead Theatre – 1996
• Mary Stuart by Friedrich von Schiller National Lyttelton – March 1996
• The Alchemist by Ben Johnson Birmingham Rep/NT Olivier – October 1996
• The Homecoming by Harold Pinter National Theatre, Lyttelton – Jan 1997
• Dance of the Vampires Raimund Theatre, Vienna – October 1997
• The London Cuckolds by Edward Ravenscroft National Lyttelton – February 1998
• Cleo,Camping,Emmanuel and Dick by Terry Johnson National Lyttelton – September 1998
• Lenny Queens Theatre – July 1999
• Amadeus Old Vic – October 1998; New York – 1999
• Rose Theatre Interactive Exhibition Bankside, London – 1999
• The Silver Tassie – Sean O'Casey – Mark Anthony Turnage ENO – February 2000
• Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall, National Cottesloe – April 2000; Duchess Theatre – April 2001
• All My Sons by Arthur Miller National Lyttelton – July 2000; National Lyttelton – August 2001
• Entertaining Mr Sloane Arts Theatre – January 2001
• The York Realist Royal Court – January 2002; Strand Theatre – March 2002
• The Coast of Utopia: Voyage/Shipwreck/Salvage, trilogy by Tom Stoppard National – August 2002
• The Breath of Life by David Hare Theatre Royal Haymarket – October 2002
• Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith National Cottesloe – 2003
• Hitchcock Blonde Royal Court and Lyric Theatre – 2003
• The Permanent Way by David Hare National Cottesloe – January 2004
• Cyrano de Bergerac National Olivier – April 2004
• Old Times by Harold Pinter Donmar Warehouse – July 2004
• The Woman in White musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber Palace Theatre – September 2004; New York – 2005
• Titus Andronicus Shakespeare's Globe – 2006
• Giant By Anthony Sher - Hampstead Theatre, London – 2007
• The Last Confession by Roger Crane Chichester Festival Theatre – 2007
• Peter Pan 360 Kensington Gardens, London – 2009
• End of the Rainbow by Peter Quilter Trafalgar Studios, London – 2010
• The Beggar's Opera Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park – 2011
• Fortune's Fool The Old Vic – 2013.
• Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'be' by Frank Norman/Lionel Bart Theatre Royal, Stratford East – 2014
• Sunday in the Park with George, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris – April 2013
• Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton Royal and Derngate, Northampton – 2015
• The Rehearsal by Jean Anouilh CFT, Minerva – May 2015
• Ross by Terence Rattigan Chichester Festival Theatre – June 2016
• Comus by John Milton Sam Wanamaker Playhouse – October 2016
• For Services Rendered by W Somerset Maugham CFT, Minerva – August 2015
• Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie London County Hall – 2017
• Switzerland by Joanna Murray-Smith Ustinov Studio, Bath – August 2018

Honours and awards

• Olivier Awards 1979, Designer of the Year for Undiscovered Country
• Olivier Awards 1985, Designer of the Year for The Mysteries and The Critics
• Olivier Awards 1986, Designer of the Year for The Futurists, Kafka's Dick and Merry Wives of Windsor
• Olivier Awards 1993, Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for Heartbreak House & The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
• BAFTA 1995 – Best Production Design for Persuasion
• Royal Television Society 1995 - Best Production Design for Persuasion
• Olivier Awards 1999, Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for Amadeus & The London Cuckolds
• Olivier Awards 2001, Olivier Award for Best Set Design for All My Sons
• Critics' Circle Theatre Awards 2002, Best Designer for The Coast of Utopia Trilogy
• Olivier Awards 2004, Olivier Award for Best Set Design for Hitchcock Blonde