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.
Awards and Nominations
Olivier Award for Set Design and Olivier nomination for Costume Design for Les Parents Terribles at the National Theatre.
Tony Award and Drama Desk Award nominations for Best Scenic Design and ‘Best Costume Design’ for its run as Indiscretions on Broadway.
Olivier Award for Design For Living at the Gielgud and Donmar Warehouse.
WhatsOnStage Award nomination for Best Set Design for An Ideal Husband.
Falstaff Award nomination for Best Scenic Design for Henry IV Parts I & II for the RSC.
Evening Standard Theatre Award nomination for Best Stage Designer for Much Ado About Nothing.
List Of Productions
2024
THE CARETAKER | Chichester Festival Theatre
2023
CYMBELINE | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company
2022
RICHARD III | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company
HENRY VI: REBELLION | Director: Owen Horsley & Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company
WARS OF THE ROSES | Director: Owen Horsley | Royal Shakespeare Company
2019
AS YOU LIKE IT | set | Director: Kimberley Sykes | Royal Shakespeare Company/ Barbican/ UK tour
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW | set | Director: Justin Audibert | Royal Shakespeare Company/ Barbican/ UK tour
MEASURE FOR MEASURE | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company/ Barbican/ UK tour
2017
A CHRISTMAS CAROL | Director: Rachel Kavanaugh | Royal Shakespeare Company
LOVE IN IDLENESS | Director: Trevor Nunn | Apollo Theatre, West End
THE TEMPEST | Director: Gregory Doran | Barbican Centre
LOVE IN IDLENESS | Director: Trevor Nunn | Menier Chocolate Factory
2016
THE TEMPEST | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company
NO MAN’S LAND | Director: Sean Mathias | UK Tour and West End
KING AND COUNTRY: SHAKESPEARE'S GREAT CYLCLE OF KINGS | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company/ China Tour/ BAM New York
KING AND COUNTRY: RICHARD II | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company/ Barbican
2015
KING AND COUNTRY: HENRY IV PART I AND PART II | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company/ Barbican
KING AND COUNTRY: HENRY V | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company
VOLPONE | Director: Trevor Nunn | Royal Shakespeare Company
DEATH OF A SALESMAN | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company/ Noel Coward Theatre, West End
DIRTY DANCING | Set | Director: James Powell and Paul Garrington | France/ Italy/ Australia
2014
HENRY IV PARTS 1 & 2 | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company/ Barbican
DIRTY DANCING | Set | Director: James Powell and Paul Garrington | USA/ Australia
2013
RICHARD II | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company/ Barbican
WAITING FOR GODOT/NO MAN’S LAND | Director: Sean Mathias | Broadway/ Cort Theater
NO MAN’S LAND | Director: Sean Mathias | Berkeley Repertory Theatre
RELATIVE VALUES | Director: Trevor Nunn | Theatre Royal Bath
DIRTY DANCING | set | Director: James Powell and Paul Garrington | UK Tour / West End / Germany / Toronto / Utrecht / USA Tour/ South Africa/ Hong Kong
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