CREATIVE
Stephen Brimson Lewis
Set Design
Theatre credits include: the set for Dirty Dancing (Hamburg, Toronto, Utrecht, Utrecht, USA tour).
She is the Artistic Director of Force Majeure a dance-theatre company based in Sydney. In 1985, with a grant from the Australia Council, she went to New York to study. Returning to Australia she became a founding member of Dance North in Townsville before moving to Adelaide to become part of Australian Dance Theatre.
He has just designed the set and costumes for Stephen Fry's new version of Cinderella at the Old Vic Theatre over Christmas and in the West End he has designed set and costumes for Design for Living (Olivier Award for his set design), Becket, Arsenic and Old Lace and Mahler's Conversion, as well as the costumes for Acorn Antiques. On Broadway, he received Drama Desk and Tony Award nominations for his designs for Indiscretions and for its National Theatre production as Les Parents Terribles he won an Olivier Award for set design, with nomination for costumes. Other National Theatre productions include A Little Night Music, Rose, Marat/Sade, Private Lives, Inadmissible Evidence, Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens and Uncle Vanya.
He also designed Arcadia (Bristol Old Vic/Birmingham Rep), A Chorus Line, High Society (Sheffield Crucible), The Illusion, Dreaming (Royal Exchange) and Julius Caesar (Young Vic/Tokyo Globe). Most recently he has worked extensively with the RSC including the sets for Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar and All's Well That Ends Well and set and costumes for Merry Wives: the Musical, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Believe What You Will, The Taming of the Shrew, Tamer Tamed, Timon of Athens, Macbeth, King John and Much Ado About Nothing (Evening Standard Award nomination). He has also designed for Staatsoper Berlin, Sydney Opera House, Royal Opera House, Vienna State Opera, Monte Carlo Opera and was Production Designer on Bent (Film Four) and Macbeth (RSC/Ch4).
