Anthony Ward
Designer

At the National Anthony Ward has designed productions of The Invention of Love, Sweet Bird of Youth, Napoli Milionaria, The Way of the World, Remember This, La Grande Magia, John Gabriel Borkman, Othello and Oklahoma!.

Also in London he designed The Novice, A Hard Heart and Donna Rosita The Spinster for the Almeida, The Rehearsal at the Almeida and Garrick Theatres, Assassins, Nine and To the Green Fields Beyond at the Donmar Warehouse, and Oliver! at the London Palladium.

For the RSC his work includes A Midsummer Night's Dream (also US tour and on Broadway - Tony nomination for Best Set Design), King Lear, The Tempest, Artists and Admirers, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, Twelfth Night, The Alchemist, The Virtuoso and Troilus and Cressida. In Opera: The Makropulos Case for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Tosca for De Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp, Manon Lescaut, for Opera de Paris, Bastille and De Vlaamse Opera, La Boheme, Yolande and The Nutcracker, L'Etoile and Gloriana for Opera North (the latter also presented at The Royal Opera House).

Ballet: The Nutcracker for Adventures in Motion Pictures at Sadler's Wells, and Masquerade, Les Rendezvous and Dance Variations for the Royal Ballet.

Film: the RSC's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

He has won Olivier Awards for Best Costume Design 1996, for A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Way of the World and Le Grande Magia, and Best Set Design for Oklahoma!