Tim Hatley is a British set and costume designer for theater and film. He is the winner of the Tony Award for Best Set Design and Best Costume Design, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design.
Hatley was educated at Bearwood College, Berkshire and trained in Theatre Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London from 1986 to 1989. He has designed for Theatre de Complicite, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, the West End, and Broadway. He has done the costumes and/or scenic design for seven Broadway productions, both musicals and dramas, starting with Stanley in 1997 through Shrek the Musical in 2008.
Film production/ costume design Stage Beauty 2003 (dir. Richard Eyre) Closer 2004 (dir. Mike Nichols) Notes on a Scandal 2006 (dir. Richard Eyre).
For the West End he was costume and set designer for the musical of The Bodyguard (musical), and Simon Gray's play Quartermaine's Terms, the original production of Monty Python musical Spamalot (2006) directed by Mike Nichols, having also done the same for Broadway. He designed sets, costumes and puppets for "Shrek the Musical" (Broadway, West End & US Tour), sets and costumes for "Betty Blue Eyes" (West End 2011), Private Lives (2001, Noël Coward Theatre) and Humble Boy (2002, Gielgud Theatre). At the National Theatre he has designed over 20 productions, including "Timon of Athens", "Welcome to Thebes", Rafta, Rafta..., Henry V, and Vincent in Brixton. Endgame in September 2009 (Theatre de Complicite/ West End) and Mrs Klein in October 2009 (Almeida Theatre).
Exhibition Design includes: Vivienne Westwood- a London Fashion, at the Museum of London "Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes" at "Victoria and Albert Museum"
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