Anthony Ward is a British set and costume designer who has designed many of the most high-profile and successful plays and musicals of the last few years.
Anthony Ward (born 1957) is a theatre designer specializing in set and costume design. He studied theatre design at Wimbledon School of Art.
He has designed numerous productions for the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Donmar Warehouse and the Almeida Theatre. His most recent productions include the award winning revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, directed by Jonathan Kent (Chichester Festival Theatre/Adelphi Theatre) Posh (Royal Court/Duke of York’s Theatre), Enron (Royal Court/Chichester Festival Theatre). Anthony’s West End musical credits include My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, Oliver! and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Anthony designed Sam Mendes inaugural production, Assassins, at the Donmar Warehouse and Mary Stuart, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, which transferred to the West End and Broadway and received a Tony Award for Best Costume Design.
Opera productions include the critically acclaimed productions of Gloriana and Peter Grimes directed by Phyllida Lloyd for Opera North, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria directed by Adrian Noble for the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.
For dance he designed Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! (Sadler’s Wells and UK tour ) and most recently Nutcracker for Nikolaj Hübbe at the Royal Danish Ballet.
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