Stephen was Director of Design and is an Associate Artist for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Credits include Gregory Doran’s Richard II with David Tennant. His many other designs for the RSC include Merry Wives of Windsor with Dame Judi Dench, The Tempest, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Othello many of which transferred to the West End, Japan or USA.
Theatre & Opera
Awards
Olivier Award
Les Parents Terribles
National Theatre
Set Design
Olivier Award nomination
Les Parents Terribles
National Theatre
Costume Design
Tony Awardnomination
Indiscretions
Broadway
Best Scenic Design
Drama Desk Award nomination
Indiscretions
Broadway
Best Costume Design
Olivier Award
Design For Living
Gielgud Theatre & Donmar Warehouse
WhatsOnStage Award nomination
An Ideal Husband
Best Set Design
Falstaff Award nomination
Henry IV Parts I & II
Royal Shakespeare Company
Best Scenic Design
Evening Standard Theatre Award nomination
Much Ado About Nothing
Best Stage Designer
Credits
THE CARETAKER
2024
Chichester Festival Theatre
CYMBELINE
2023
Royal Shakespeare Company
Director: Gregory Doran
RICHARD III
2022
Royal Shakespeare Company
Director: Gregory Doran
HENRY VI: REBELLION
2022
Royal Shakespeare Company
Director: Owen Horsley & Gregory Doran
WARS OF THE ROSES
2022
Royal Shakespeare Company
Director: Owen Horsley
AS YOU LIKE IT
2019
Royal Shakespeare Company / Barbican / UK Tour
Director: Kimberley Sykes
Set Only
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
2019
Royal Shakespeare Company / Barbican / UK Tour
Director: Justin Audibert
Set Only
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
2019
Royal Shakespeare Company / Barbican / UK Tour
Director: Gregory Doran
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
2017
Royal Shakespeare Company
Director: Rachel Kavanaugh
LOVE IN IDLENESS
2017
Apollo Theatre, West End
Director: Trevor Nunn
THE TEMPEST
2017
Barbican Centre
Director: Gregory Doran
LOVE IN IDLENESS
2017
Menier Chocolate Factory
Director: Trevor Nunn
THE TEMPEST
2016
Royal Shakespeare Company
Director: Gregory Doran
NO MAN'S LAND
2016
West End & UK Tour
Director: Sean Mathias
KING AND COUNTRY: SHAKESPEARE'S GREAT CYLCLE OF KINGS
2016
Royal Shakespeare Company / China Tour / BAM New York
Director: Gregory Doran
KING AND COUNTRY: RICHARD II
2016
Royal Shakespeare Company / Barbican
Director: Gregory Doran
KING AND COUNTRY: HENRY IV PART I AND PART II
2015
Royal Shakespeare Company / Barbican
Director: Gregory Doran
KING AND COUNTRY: HENRY V
2015
Royal Shakespeare Company
Director: Gregory Doran
VOLPONE
2015
Royal Shakespeare Company
Director: Trevor Nunn
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
2015
Royal Shakespeare Company / Noel Coward Theatre, West End
Director: Gregory Doran
DIRTY DANCING
2015
France / Italy / Australia
Director: James Powell & Paul Garrington
Set Only
HENRY IV PARTS 1 & 2
2014
Royal Shakespeare Company / Barbican
Director: Gregory Doran
DIRTY DANCING
2014
USA / Australia
Director: James Powell & Paul Garrington
Set Only
RICHARD II
2013
Royal Shakespeare Company / Barbican
Director: Gregory Doran
WAITING FOR GODOT / NO MAN’S LAND
2013
Broadway / Cort Theater
Director: Sean Mathias
NO MAN’S LAND
2013
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Director: Sean Mathias
RELATIVE VALUES
2013
Theatre Royal Bath
Director: Trevor Nunn
DIRTY DANCING
2013
UK Tour / West End / Germany / Toronto / Utrecht / USA Tour / South Africa / Hong Kong
Director: James Powell & Paul Garrington
Set Only
PREVIOUS THEATRE
HEARTBREAK HOUSE | Director: Richard Clifford | Chichester Festival Theatre
THE LION IN WINTER | Director: Trevor Nunn | Theatre Royal Haymarket
THE TEMPEST | Director: Trevor Nunn | Theatre Royal Haymarket
FLARE PATH | Nominated for Best Revival Olivier Award | Director: Trevor Nunn | Theatre Royal Haymarket, West End
AN IDEAL HUSBAND | Director: Lindsay Posner | Vaudeville Theatre, West End
THE MASTER BUILDER | Director: Philip Franks | Chichester Festival Theatre
WAITING FOR GODOT | Director: Sean Mathias | Australia/ Theatre Royal Haymarket, West End / UK tour
GHOSTS | Director: Iain Glen | Thelma Holt Ltd/ Duchess Theatre, West End
SEPARATE TABLES | Director: Philip Franks | Chichester Festival Theatre
Stephen Fry’s CINDERELLA | Director: Fiona Laird | Old Vic Theatre
ACORN ANTIQUES | costumes | Director: Trevor Nunn | West End / UK tour
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA | Set | Royal Shakespeare Company
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company
JULIUS CAESAR | Set | Director: Sean Holmes | Royal Shakespeare Company
BELIEVE WHAT YOU WILL | Director: Josie Rourke | RSC Swan Theatre/ West End
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM | Director: Gregory Doran | RSC/ Japan/ West End
BECKET | Director: John Caird | West End
ARCADIA | Director: Rachel Kavanaugh | Co-production Bristol Old Vic & Birmingham Rep
OTHELLO | RSC/ Japan/ West End
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL | Set | Director: Gregory Doran | RSC/ West End
A CHORUS LINE | Director: Nikolai Foster | Sheffield Crucible
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW & THE TAMER TAMED | Director: Gregory Doran | RSC/ Washington/ West End
BROADWAY
INDISCRETIONS | Director: Sean Mathias | Barrymore Theatre, Broadway / also at the Royal National Theatre as LES PARENTS TERRIBLES
ROSE | Director: Nancy Meckler | Lyceum Theatre/ National Theatre
WEST END
BOOKENDS | Costumes | Director: Ned Sherrin | Apollo Theatre, West End
OUR SONG | Costumes | Director: Ned Sherrin | Apollo Theatre, West End
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE | Director: Matthew Francis | Strand Theatre, West End
MAHLER’S CONVERSION | Director: Gregory Doran | Aldwych, West End
DESIGN FOR LIVING | Director: Sean Mathias | Gielgud and Donmar Warehouse, West End
MRS KLEIN | Director: Peter Gill | Apollo, West End / National Theatre
IT’S RALPH | Director: Clifford Williams | Comedy Theatre, West End
VANILLA | Costumes | Director: Harold Pinter | Lyric Theatre, West End
OTHER WORK FOR THE NATIONAL THEATRE
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC | Director: Sean Mathias
MARAT SADE | Director: Jeremy Sams
PRIVATE LIVES | Director: Philip Franks
INADMISSIBLE EVIDENCE | Director: Di Trevis
UNCLE VANYA | Director: Sean Mathias
SOMEWHERE | Director: Polly Teale
ONCE IN A WHILE THE ODD THING HAPPENS | Director: Paul Godfrey
THE AMERICAN CLOCK | Costumes
OTHER WORK FOR THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | Nomination for Evening Standard Award for Best Set
TIMON OF ATHENS | KING JOHN | MACBETH | Director: All Gregory Doran
OTHER THEATRE
HIGH SOCIETY | Director: Fiona Laird
JULIUS CAESAR | Director: David Lan | Young Vic/ Tokyo Globe
THE ILLUSION and DREAMING |TMA Award Nomination for Best Designer | Director: Matthew Lloyd
RACING DEMON | Director: Christopher Morahan | Chichester Festival Theatre/ Toronto
KAFKA’S DICK | Director: Philip Franks | Nottingham Playhouse
GHOSTS | Director: Sean Mathias | Sherman Theatre, West End
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT | Director: Laurence Boswell | CTC
A WORKING WOMAN | Director: Jane Gibson and Sue Lefton | West Yorkshire Playhouse
HECUBA | Director: Laurence Boswell | The Gate, Ireland
WHO SHALL I BE TOMORROW, DR FAUSTUS, THE BROWNING VERSION | Greenwich
OPERA
LA BOHÈME | Director: Annabel Arden | Welsh National Opera
THE LEGEND OF JOSEPH | Director: Mark Baldwin | Staatsoper Berlin, Germany
TALES OF HOFFMANN | Director: Francisco Negrin | Sydney Opera House, Australia
L’ELISIR | Costumes | Director: John Cox | Dallas Opera/ San Diego Opera, US
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE | Costumes | Director: Stephen Unwin | Royal Opera House
OTELLO | Set | Director: Peter Wood | Vienna State Opera, Austria
THE TURN OF THE SCREW | Set | Director: Elijah Moshinsky | Australian Opera
DORIAN GRAY | Set | Director: John Cox | Monte Carlo Opera
FILM
BENT | as production designer | Director: Sean Mathias | Film Four International
MACBETH | as production designer | Director: Gregory Doran | Illuminations/RSC/Channel Four
THE NIGHTMARE YEARS | as Costume Designer | Designer Director: Anthony Page | TNT
Stephen Brimson Lewis
Set & Costume Designer
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