William Dudley

Theatre: West End credits include: Cyrano (National Theatre); The Permanent Way (National Theatre); Hitchcock Blonde (Wyndhams); David Hare’s play The Breath Of Life starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith (Haymarket Theatre); The York Realist (English Touring Theatre, Royal Court, Strand Theatre); Blue/Orange (Duchess); Entertaining Mr Sloane; Lenny; A Streetcar Named Desire; Rat In the Skull; My Night With Reg; Heartbreak House; Matador; Girlfriends; Kiss Me Kate; Mutiny!; I Claudius; for the National Theatre: Honour, Tom Stoppard’s The Coast Of Utopia, All My Sons, Blue/Orange, The Forest, Cleo Camping Emmanuelle and Dick, The London Cuckolds, The Homecoming, The Alchemist (with Birmingham Repertory Theatre), Mary Stuart, Wild Oats, Under Milk Wood, Johnny On A Spot, On the Ledge, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Pygmalion, The Coup, The Crucible, The Voysey Inheritance, Bartholomew Fair, The Changeling, The Shaughraun, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, Waiting For Godot, Entertaining Strangers, The Mysteries ,The Critic ,The Real Inspector Hound, Schweyk In The Second World War, Don Quixote, Dispatches, Undiscovered Country, The World Turned Upside Down, Lost Worlds, Larkrise To Candleford, Lavender Blue; for the Almeida Theatre: The Deep Blue Sea and Tongue of a Bird; for the Royal Court Theatre: Hitchcock Blonde, I Licked A Slag's Deodorant (Ambassadors), Kafka's Dick, Etta Jenks, Hamlet, Edmund, The Fool, Small Change. For the Royal Shakespeare Company: The Big Picnic (for Glasgow's Cultural City of Europe Year, 1990), The Ship, Hamlet (also Neue Schauspielhaus, Hamburg), Marya (also Old Vic), The General From America, Country Dancing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Richard II, The Merry Wives of Windsor ,The Party, Richard III, That Good Between Us, Ivanov; for Hampstead Theatre: Some Sunny Day.

Bill Dudley has also designed the sets for Roman Polanski’s musical version of The Dance of the Vampires, which opened in Vienna in October 1997, and for Peter Hall’s production of Amadeus (Old Vic).

Awards: 2001 Olivier award for Set Design for All My Sons; 1993 Olivier Award for Costume Design for The Rise and Fall of Little Voice; 1999 Olivier Award for Costume Design for Amadeus and The London Cuckolds; 1985 Olivier Award for Designer of the Year for The Mysteries; 1986 Olivier Award for Designer of the year for The Merry Wives of Windsor; 1979 Olivier Award for Designer of the Year for Undiscovered Country.