Robert received the TMA Designer of the Year award for PROMISES PROMISES at Sheffield Crucible in 2007 and for THE WASP FACTORY (WYP) and MY MOTHER SAID (OSC) in 1997. He also received the 1996 Critics Circle Designer of the Year Award for THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (RSC) and THE WEAVERS (Gate). In Opera he received the Openwelt Set Design of the Year Award for DIE SOLDATEN at the Ruhr Triennale.

Designs include:

Theatre: SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS (West End/ UK tour/ Bristol Old Vic); BINGO (Young Vic/ Chichester); CHILDREN’S CHILDREN (Almeida); CLYBOURNE PARK (also West End), THE PRIORY, THE PAIN AND THE ITCH (all Royal Court); WANDERLUST, TUSK TUSK (Royal Court Upstairs); DUNSINANE (National Theatre of Scotland/ RSC/ Hampstead Theatre); GOODNIGHT MR TOM (also UK Tour), WALLENSTEIN, CAROUSEL (all Chichester); TWELTH NIGHT, ROMEO AND JULIET (Regent’s Park Open Air); MARBLE (Abbey); ARTURO UI (New York); DALLAS SWEETMAN (Canterbury Cathedral); OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD (Liverpool Playhouse); PINOCCHIO (Royal Lyceum); THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING (Young Vic); THE MALCONTENT (RSC, Swan).

Opera: NABUCCO (De Vlaamse Opera/Antwerp and Gent); BARTERED BRIDE (New Zealand/ Valencia/ Starsbourg/ Opera North); TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (Oslo); PRINCE IGOR (Zurich and Hamburg); LOHENGRIN (San Francisco/ Houston/ Geneva); KOMMILITONEN (RAM, Julliard); WOZZECK, BILLY BUDD, SIMON BOCCANEGRA, ITALIAN GIRL IN ALGIERS (Santa Fe); PETER GRIMES (Oslo/ Washington DC/ Santa Fe); PARSIFAL (Tallinn); HEART OF DARKNESS (ROH2); ELIXIR OF LOVE (WNO/ Opera North); PARADISE MOSCOW (Opera North); NORMA, LA BOHEME, I CAPULETI E I MONTECCHI (Grange Park); XERXES (Stockholm); BETROTHAL IN A MONESTARY (Valencia/ Glyndebourne); DIE SOLDATEN (Lincoln Center Festival/ Ruhr Triennale); CARMEN (Bolshoi Moscow); RAPE OF LUCRETIA (Snape Maltings); MANON LESCAUT (Oviedo/Oslo/Opera North); RIGOLETTO (Lyric Opera Chicago); CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN (Geneva/San Fransisco/ Bregenz); FLYING DUTCHMAN (WNO/ Zurich); CAV AND PAG (Deutsche Oper Berlin); CHARODEYKA (Lisbon/St Petersburg); RIGOLETTO (WNO).