
Stephen Brimson Lewis
Stephen won an Olivier Award for his set and a nomination for Costume Design for Les Parents Terribles at the National Theatre. He was nominated for a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for ‘Best Scenic Design’ and ‘Best Costume Design’ for its run as Indiscretions on Broadway. He also won an Olivier Award for Design For Living at the Gielgud and Donmar Warehouse. This year Stephen has been nominated for a Falstaff Award for Best Scenic Design for Henry IV Parts I & II for the RSC
He is Director of Design for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Credit’s 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, Antony & Cleopatra (set), Julius Caesar (set), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Othello many of which transferred to the West End, Japan or Washington.
Productions
2023 | |
CYMBELINE | Director: Gregory Doran |
2022 | |
RICHARD III | Director: Gregory Doran |
HENRY VI: REBELLION | Director: Owen Horsley & Gregory Doran |
WARS OF THE ROSES | Director: Owen Horsley |
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 |
LOVE IN IDLENESS | Director: Trevor Nunn |
THE TEMPEST | Director: Gregory Doran |
LOVE IN IDLENESS | Director: Trevor Nunn |
2016 | |
THE TEMPEST | Director: Gregory Doran |
NO MAN’S LAND | Director: Sean Mathias |
KING AND COUNTRY: Shakespeare’s Great cycle of Kings | Director: Gregory Doran |
KING AND COUNTRY: RICHARD II | Director: Gregory Doran |
2015 | |
KING AND COUNTRY: HENRY IV PART I AND PART II | Director: Gregory Doran Royal Shakespeare Company, the Barbican |
KING AND COUNTRY: HENRY V | Director: Gregory Doran |
VOLPONE | Director: Trevor Nunn |
DEATH OF A SALESMAN | Director: Gregory Doran |
DIRTY DANCING (set) | Director: James Powell and Paul Garrington |
2014 | |
HENRY IV PARTS 1 & 2 | Director: Gregory Doran |
DIRTY DANCING (set) | Director: James Powell and Paul Garrington |
2013 | |
RICHARD II | Director: Gregory Doran |
WAITING FOR GODOT/NO MAN’S LAND | Director: Sean Mathias |
NO MAN’S LAND | Director: Sean Mathias |
RELATIVE VALUES | Director: Trevor Nunn |
DIRTY DANCING (set) | Director: James Powell and Paul Garrington |
previous theatre | |
HEARTBREAK HOUSE | Director: Richard Clifford |
THE LION IN WINTER | Director: Trevor Nunn |
THE TEMPEST | Director: Trevor Nunn |
FLARE PATH (Nominated for Best Revival Olivier Award) | Director: Trevor Nunn |
AN IDEAL HUSBAND | Director: Lindsay Posner |
THE MASTER BUILDER | Director: Philip Franks |
WAITING FOR GODOT | Director: Sean Mathias |
GHOSTS | Director: Iain Glen |
SEPARATE TABLES | Director: Philip Franks |
Stephen Fry’s CINDERELLA | Director: Fiona Laird |
ACORN ANTIQUES (costumes) | Director: Trevor Nunn |
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (set) | |
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR | Director: Both Gregory Doran |
JULIUS CAESAR (set) | Director: Sean Holmes |
BELIEVE WHAT YOU WILL | Director: Josie Rourke |
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM | Director: Gregory Doran |
BECKET | Director: John Caird |
ARCADIA | Director: Rachel Kavanaugh |
OTHELLO | RSC, Japan, West End |
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (set) | Director: Both Gregory Doran |
A CHORUS LINE | Director: Nikolai Foster |
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW & THE TAMER TAMED | Director: Gregory Doran |
Broadway | |
INDISCRETIONS | Director: Sean Mathias |
ROSE | Director: Nancy Meckler |
west end | |
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE | Director: Matthew Francis |
MAHLER’S CONVERSION | Director: Gregory Doran |
DESIGN FOR LIVING | Director: Sean Mathias |
OUR SONG | |
BOOKENDS | |
JEFFREY BERNARD IS UNWELL (costumes) | Director: All Ned Sherrin |
MRS KLEIN | Director: Peter Gill |
IT’S RALPH | Director: Clifford Williams |
VANILLA (costumes) | Director: Harold Pinter |
other work for the | |
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 | |
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 |
THE ILLUSION and DREAMING Nomination for TMA AWARD Best Designer | Director: Matthew Lloyd |
RACING DEMON | Director: Christopher Morahan |
KAFKA’S DICK | Director: Philip Franks |
GHOSTS | Director: Sean Mathias |
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT | Director: Laurence Boswell |
A WORKING WOMAN | Director: Jane Gibson and Sue Lefton |
HECUBA | Director: Laurence Boswell |
WHO SHALL I BE TOMORROW, DR FAUSTUS, THE BROWNING VERSION | Greenwich |
opera | |
LA BOHÈME | Director: Annabel Arden |
THE LEGEND OF JOSEPH | Director: Mark Baldwin |
TALES OF HOFFMANN | Director: Francisco Negrin |
L’ELISIR (Costumes) | Director: John Cox |
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (Costumes) | Director: Stephen Unwin |
OTELLO (Set) | Director: Peter Wood |
THE TURN OF THE SCREW (Set) | Director: Elijah Moshinsky |
DORIAN GRAY (Set) | Director: John Cox |
film | |
BENT – as production designer | Director: Sean Mathias |
MACBETH – as production designer | Director: Gregory Doran |
THE NIGHTMARE YEARS – as Costume Designer | Designer Director: Anthony Page |