Mark Thompson
Production Designer
Theatre includes, for the NT, The The Rose Tattoo, The Alchemist, Once in a Lifetime, Henry IV Parts I and II, The Duchess of Malfi, Life x 3, The Wind in the Willows, The Madness of George III, Arcadia, Pericles, What the Butler Saw and The Day I Stood Still. Recent work elsewhere includes: Kean (Apollo), And Then There Were None (Gielgud), Bombay Dreams (London and Broadway), Mamma Mia! (worldwide), The Lady in the Van (Queen’s), Follies (New York, set only), Doctor Dolittle and Blast! (Apollo, Hammersmith). RSC: Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Wizard of Oz, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors and The Unexpected Man (also New York). Royal Court: Piano/Forte, The Woman Before, Wild East, Mouth to Mouth, Six Degrees of Separation, Hysteria, The Kitchen and Never Land. Donmar Warehouse: Twelfth Night (costumes only), Uncle Vanya (costumes only), The Blue Room (and Broadway), Insignificance, Company (also Albery) and The Front Page. Almeida: Volpone, Betrayal, Party Time and Butterfly Kiss. Other theatre includes: Art, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Shadowlands.
Opera includes Falstaff (Scottish Opera), Peter Grimes (Opera North), Ariadne auf Naxos (Salzburg), Il Viaggio a Reims (ROH), Hansel and Gretel (Sydney), The Two Widows (ENO), Queen of Spades (Metropolitan Opera, New York), Montag aus Licht (costumes, La Scala, Milan) and, opening later this year, Macbeth (Metropolitan Opera, New York).
Ballet includes Don Quixote (Royal Ballet).
Film credits include costume design for The Madness of King George.