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Set Design

London credits include: Awake and Sing directed by Michael Attenborough (Almeida); King of Hearts directed by Max Stafford-Clark and Ramin Gray (Hampstead Theatre); Whipping It Up directed by Terry Johnson (at the Bush) and Tamara Harvey (NewAmbassadors and national tour); The Overwhelming directed by Max Stafford-Clark (RNT Cottesloe and the Roundabout, New York); The Philanthropist (Donmar Warehouse) and Excuses (Soho Theatre) directed by David Grindley; See How They Run directed by Douglas Hodge (Duchess Theatre); Haunted (Arts Theatre) and Telstar (New Ambassadors) for Paul Jepson; Elton John’s Glasses for Terry Johnson (Queen’s Theatre); 900 Oneonta (Old Vic and Ambassadors); Body and Soul (Albery); Murder by Misadventure (Vaudeville and Whitehall); Twilight of the Golds (Arts); A Cook’s Tour (Shaftesbury); Disappeared (Royal Court Upstairs); Eugene Onegin (Lyric Hammersmith); The Amen Corner (Tricycle); the costumes for The Big Knife directed by Robin Lefevre (Albery).

Other designs include: Privates on Parade (Stoke); The Colonel Bird (the Gate, Notting Hill); Broken Glass (Palace Theatre, Watford and Salisbury Playhouse) all for Rupert Goold; Dead Funny (Chichester Festival Theatre); Single Spies (Theatre Royal, Bath); Having a Ball (Birmingham Rep and tour); The Circle (Oxford Stage Company); What You Get and What You Expect (Lyric, Hammersmith); The Signalman (Theatre Royal, Windsor); Roots (Oxford Stage Company and Palace, Watford - nominated for Barclays TMA Best Design Awards 1998); and Jeffrey (Greenwich). Tim has also designed for many of the major regional theatres.

Designs for dance include: Private City/Track and Field (Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet); Sonata in Time (Scottish Ballet); Rhyme Nor Reason and Party Game (Norwegian National Ballet); The Nightingale (Dutch National Ballet); and Uncertain Steps (Introdans Holland and Ontario Ballet Theatre).

Television work includes: 20th Century Blues, a tribute to Noël Coward with Robbie Williams and Elton John (BBC); and The Nightingale - NOS Dutch TV entry for the Prix Italia, winning the RAI Prize.

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