William Dudley (designer)

William Dudley is a British theatre designer. He was born in London on 4 March 1947, son of William Stuart Dudley and his wife Dorothy Irene.

He was educated at the St Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Art and is a member of the Society of British Theatre Designers

Career

He designed his first production in October 1970, "Hamlet" for Nottingham Playhouse.

Since then he has designed the following productions:
*"The Duchess of Malfi" (Royal Court) 1971
*"Man Is Man", Bertolt Brecht (Royal Court) 1971
*"Anarchist" (Royal Court Upstairs) 1971
* "Tyger" (co-designed for the National Theatre at the ) July 1971
* "Cato Street" (Young Vic) 1971
*"The Good Natur'd Man" (National) 1971
*"Live Like Pigs" (Royal Court Upstairs) 1972
*"I Claudius" (Queen's Theatre) 1972
*"The Baker, the Baker's Wife and the Baker's Boy" (Newcastle) 1972
*"Rooted" (Hampstead Theatre) March 1973
*"Magnificence"; "Sweet Talk" and "The Merry-Go-Round" (Royal Court) 1973
*"Ashes" (Open Space) January 1974
*"The Corn is Green" (Watford Palace) 1974
*"Twelfth Night", director Peter Gill (RSC Stratford) August 1974
*"Harding's Luck" (Greenwich Theatre) December 1974
*"Fish in the Sea" (Half Moon Theatre) February 1975
*"As You Like It" (Nottingham Playhouse) 1975
*"The Fool" (Royal Court) 1975
*"The Norman Conquests" (Berlin) 1976
*"Small Change", Peter Gill (Royal Court) July 1976
*"As You Like It" (opening of Riverside Studios) May 1976
*"Ivanov", director David Jones (RSC Aldwych Theatre) September 1976
*"The Cherry Orchard", director Peter Gill, (Riverside Studios) January 1978
*"That Good Between Us" (RSC Donmar Warehouse) July 1977
*"Lavender Blue" (National, Cottesloe) November 1977
*"Touched" (Nottingham Playhouse at the Old Vic) September 1977
*"The World Turned Upside Down" (National, Cottesloe) 2 November 1978
*"Has 'Washington' Legs?" (National, Cottesloe) 29 November 1978
*"Billy Budd" (The Metropolitan Opera House, New York) 1978
*"Dispatches" (National, Cottesloe) 6 June 1979
*"Undiscovered Country" (National, Olivier) 20 June 1979
*"Lark Rise" and "Candleford" (National, Cottesloe) 1979
*"Don Quixote" (National, Olivier) 1982
*"Schweyk in the Second World War", Bertolt Brecht (National, Olivier) 1982
*"Small Change" (National, Cottesloe) 1983
*"Cinderella", Pantomime (National, Lyttelton) - December 1983
*"The Mysteries: Doomsday/The Nativity/The Passion", designed and lit (National, Cottesloe; Lyceum Theatre) 1985
*"The Party" (RSC The Pit) 1985
*"Richard III" (RSC Barbican Theatre) 1985
*"Today" (RSC The Pit) 1985
*"Mutiny", David Essex musical (Piccadilly Theatre) 1985
*"The Critic/The Real Inspector Hound" (National, Olivier) 1985
*"Edmond", David Mamet (Royal Court) 1985
*"The Merry Wives of Windsor" (RSC Barbican Theatre) 1986 and 1987
*"Futurists" (National, Cottesloe) 1986
*"Prairie du Chien/The Shawl" (Royal Court Upstairs) 1986
*"Kafka's Dick" (Royal Court) 1986
*"Country Dancing" (RSC The Pit) 1987
*"Richard II" (RSC Barbican Theatre) 1987
*"Entertaining Strangers" (National, Cottesloe) 1987
*"Girlfriends", Howard Goodall musical (Playhouse Theatre) 1987
*"Waiting for Godot" (National, Lyttelton) 1987
*"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (National, Lyttelton) 1988
*"The Shaughran" (National, Olivier) 1988 and 1989
*"The Changeling" (National, Lyttelton) 1988
*"The Father", August Strindberg (National, Cottesloe) 1988
*"The Voysey Inheritance" (National, Cottesloe) 1989
*"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (dir Howard Davies) New York 1990
*"Amadeus" (dir Peter Hall) Old Vic - October 1998; New York - 1999
*"Blue/Orange" by Joe Penhall (dir Roger Michell), National Cottesloe - April 2000; Duchess Theatre - April 2001
*"All My Sons" by Arthur Miller (dir Howard Davies) National Lyttelton - July 2000; National Lyttelton - August 2001
*"Entertaining Mr Sloane" (dir Terry Johnson ) Arts Theatre - January 2001
*"The York Realist" (written and dir Peter Gill) Royal Court - January 2002; Strand Theatre - March 2002 [http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/yorkrealist-rev.htm]
*"The Coast of Utopia: Voyage/Shipwreck/Salvage", trilogy by Tom Stoppard (dir Trevor Nunn) National - August 2002 [http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/?lid=1334&dspl=reviews]
*"The Breath of Life" by David Hare (dir Howard Davies) Theatre Royal Haymarket - October 2002 [http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/breatoflife-rev.htm]
*Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith (dir Roger Michell") National Cottesloe - 2003
*"Hitchcock Blonde" (written and dir Terry Johnson) Royal Court and Lyric Theatre - 2003 [http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/hitchcockblonde-rev.htm]
*"The Permanent Way" by David Hare (dir Max Stafford Clark) National Cottesloe - January 2004 [http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/permanentwayNT-rev.htm]
*"Cyrano de Bergerac" (dir Howard Davies) National Olivier - April 2004 [http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/cyrano-rev.htm]
*"Old Times" by Harold Pinter (dir Roger Michell) Donmar Warehouse - July 2004 [http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/oldtimes-rev.htm]
*"The Woman in White" musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (dir Trevor Nunn) Palace Theatre - September 2004 [http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/womaninwhite-rev.htm] ; New York - 2005 [http://www.curtainup.com/womaninwhiteny.html]
*"Titus Andronicus" (dir Lucy Bailey) Shakespeare's Globe - 2006 [http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/12882/titus-andronicus]

Awards

Awards include:
*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"

References

*"Who's Who in the Theatre" (17th Edition), Gale (1981) ISBN 0810302349
*"The National: The Theatre and its Work 1963-97" by Simon Callow, Nick Hern Books (1997) ISBN 1854593234
*"Theatre Record" and its annual Indexes
*"Stage Design" by Tony Davis, Rotavision SA (2001) ISBN 2880465060

External links

*British Theatre Guide interview, June 2003: [http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/otherresources/interviews/WilliamDudley.htm "William Dudley, possibly Britain's top Theatre Designer"]

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