Nicky Gillibrand - Costume Designer

Nicky trained as a fashion textile designer. She works mostly as a costume designer in Theatre and Opera and occasionally as a set designer. Winner of the Gold award for Best Costume Design, Prague Quadrenale 2003 for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

Theatre credits: Vernon God Little, Annie Get Your Gun, The Good Soul of Szechuan, Six Characters in Search of an Author (Young Vic London), King Lear (Liverpool Playhouse, Young Vic), The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC), The Seagull, Jumpers, A Little Night Music, Mother Clapp’s Molly House, Tales from the Vienna Woods set and costumes (National Theatre), Billy Elliot the Musical (worldwide), Jumpers (National Theatre, West End, Broadway), Powerbook (National Theatre, Paris, Rome), Tales from the Vienna Woods set and costumes, A Little Night Music, Mother Clapp’s Molly House (National Theatre), By the Bog of Cats (West End), Camille set and costumes (Lyric Hammersmith), Proverb (Royal Ballet), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Lupa (RSC).

Opera credits: Rusalka (Copenhagen, Finland), The Fiery Angel (La Monnaie, Brussels), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Gianni Schicchi & L’Heure Espagnole, The Gambler (Royal Opera House), Queen of Spades (Royal Opera House, Naples, Geneva), Pelleas et Melisande (Munich), The Miserly Knight, Flight, Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne), La Traviata, Hansel and Gretel (set and costumes), Of Thee I Sing, Pelleas and Melisande, Don Carlos, Wozzeck (Opera North), Flight (Netherlandse), War and Peace (Paris), Don Giovanni, Turk In Italy, Boris Godunov, Pelleas and Melisande, Peter Grimes (English National Opera), Midsummer Marriage (Munich).