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Bob Crowley

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Bob Crowley
Born (1952-06-10) 10 June 1952 (age 72)
Cork, Republic of Ireland
Occupation(s)Theatre designer, director
RelativesJohn Crowley (brother)
AwardsTony Award for Best Scenic Design
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play
Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical

Bob Crowley RDI (born 10 June 1952) is a theatre designer (scenic and costume), and theatre director. He lives between London, New York and West Cork in the south west of Ireland.

Career

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Born in Cork, Ireland on 10 June 1952, Bob Crowley is the brother of director John Crowley. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has designed over 20 productions for the National Theatre[1] including Ghetto, The Madness of George III, Carousel and The History Boys. He has also designed numerous productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company including The Plantagenets, for which he won an Olivier award, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which later had a successful run in London, followed by a transfer to Broadway. Opera productions include the critically acclaimed production of The Magic Flute directed by Nicholas Hytner for the English National Opera and La Traviata for the Royal Opera House.

Crowley is a frequent collaborator with Nicholas Hytner, and as well as on Broadway has worked extensively at the Royal National Theatre in London and with England's Royal Shakespeare Company.

Bob Crowley has received multiple Tony Award nominations, and has won seven times, for designing the Broadway productions of Carousel (1994), Aida (2000), The History Boys (2006), Mary Poppins (2007), The Coast of Utopia (2007), Once (2012) and An American in Paris (2015). He received three other Tony Award nominations in 2015, two for his costumes on The Audience and An American in Paris and one for his scenic designs for Skylight.[2] He is a two-time recipient of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design and a three-time recipient of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design.

Crowley designed set and costume for Mary Poppins, which played in both the West End and on Broadway. He designed and directed the Phil Collins musical Tarzan. He is the set and costume designer for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, and the costume designer of the 2012 European version of The Little Mermaid. In 2015 he designed for three Broadway shows, The Audience, An American in Paris, and Skylight.[3] He was the set and costumes designer of the 2022 ballet Like Water for Chocolate.[4][5][6]

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Nominated work Result
1985 Laurence Olivier Award Designer of the Year Henry V, Love's Labour's Lost and The Winter's Tale Nominated
1986 Laurence Olivier Award Designer of the Year As You Like It and Les Liaisons Dangereuses Nominated
1987 Tony Awards Best Scenic Design Les Liaisons Dangereuses Nominated
Best Costume Design Nominated
Laurence Olivier Award Designer of the Year A Penny for a Song and Macbeth Nominated
1990 Laurence Olivier Award Designer of the Year Ghetto, Hedda Gabler, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and The Plantagenets Won
1992 Laurence Olivier Award Best Set Design When She Danced, Murmuring Judges and The Night of the Iguana Nominated
1993 Laurence Olivier Award Best Set Design Carousel, Henry IV and No Man's Land Nominated
Best Costume Design Carousel and Hamlet Nominated
1994 Tony Awards Best Scenic Design Carousel Won
1998 Tony Awards Best Scenic Design The Capeman Nominated
1999 Tony Awards Best Scenic Design The Iceman Cometh Nominated
Best Scenic Design Twelfth Night Nominated
2000 Tony Awards Best Scenic Design Aida Won
Best Costume Design Nominated
2001 Tony Awards Best Scenic Design The Invention of Love Nominated
Laurence Olivier Award Best Costume Design Cressida and The Witches of Eastwick Nominated
2004 Laurence Olivier Award Best Set Design Mourning Becomes Electra Nominated
2005 Laurence Olivier Award Best Set Design Mary Poppins Nominated
Best Costume Design Nominated
2006 Tony Awards Best Scenic Design of a Play The History Boys Won
2007 Tony Awards Best Scenic Design of a Play The Coast of Utopia Won
Best Scenic Design of a Musical Mary Poppins Won
Best Costume Design of a Musical Nominated
2011 Laurence Olivier Award Best Set Design Love Never Dies Nominated
Best Costume Design Nominated
2012 Tony Awards Best Scenic Design of a Musical Once Won
2013 Laurence Olivier Award Best Costume Design The Audience Nominated
2014 Tony Awards Best Scenic Design of a Play The Glass Menagerie Nominated
Laurence Olivier Award Best Set Design Once Nominated
2015 Tony Awards Best Scenic Design of a Play Skylight Nominated
Best Costume Design of a Play The Audience Nominated
Best Scenic Design of a Musical An American in Paris Won
Best Costume Design of a Musical Nominated
2017 Laurence Olivier Award Best Set Design Aladdin Nominated
2018 Laurence Olivier Award Best Set Design An American in Paris Won
2019 Laurence Olivier Award Best Set Design The Inheritance Nominated
2020 Tony Awards Best Scenic Design of a Play The Inheritance Nominated
Best Costume Design of a Play Nominated
Laurence Olivier Award Best Set Design Mary Poppins Won

References

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  1. ^ "Bob Crowley". Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
  2. ^ Gans, Andrew. "69th Annual Tony Awards Nominations Announced!" Playbill, 28 April 2015
  3. ^ "Bob Crowley Credits on Broadway" playbillvault.com. Retrieved 2 May 2015
  4. ^ "Like Water for Chocolate". American Ballet Theatre. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  5. ^ Mercado, Mario R. (14 June 2023). "In Researching Like Water for Chocolate, Tony-Winning Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon Traveled to Mexico". Playbill. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  6. ^ "'Like Water for Chocolate' brings food, magic, spice and lust to NY's grandest ballet stage". AP News. 20 June 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
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