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William Dudley studied fine art at St Martin’s School of Art and Stage Design at the Slade School.
On graduation he won the Arts Council Bursary (now the Linbury Prize) and went on to design theatre and opera productions throughout the world. In some of his recent theatre designs he has used computer-generated, animated images and his production of Hitchcock Blonde using projected scenery won him an Olivier Award – one of seven he has been awarded; he has had a further seven Award nominations.
Included in more than sixty productions at the National Theatre are the award winning The Mysteries, Undiscovered Country, The Critic, Pygmalion, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, All My Sons. His association with the Royal Court has produced designs for The Duchess of Malfi, Man is Man, Hamlet (Drama Award), Kafka's Dick and Hitchcock Blonde. Productions at the Royal Shakespeare Company include Julius Cæsar, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Olivier Award) Twelfth Night, Richard III, Richard II and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Productions in 2009/10 include The House of Special Purpose at the Chichester Festival, The Line at the Arcola and All My Sons in the West End.
In the West End he has designed Carousel, I Claudius, Mutiny!, Kiss Me Kate, A Streetcar Named Desire, My Night With Reg, Lenny, The Breath of Life, The Woman in White, Betrayal, The Last Confession and The Importance of being Earnest. Many of these productions have also been seen on Broadway.
Dudley also designed the sets for Roman Polanski’s acclaimed musical version of The Dance Of The Vampires, (Vienna, Berlin and currently Germany); The Ship (for Cultural Capital of Europe Year 1990) and The Big Picnic both in the Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Glasgow as well as the sets for a new cruise vessel entertainment for Princess Lines/Cunard. His spectacular designs for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens will be seen at the O2 this Christmas and in the USA in 2010.
His opera designs are renowned and include The Ring Cycle in Bayreuth; Un Ballo in Maschera - when he worked with Herbert von Karajan in his last Salzburg Festival production; Billy Budd (Metropolitan Opera); Lucia di Lammermoor (Opéra National de Paris); Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Der Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, The Cunning Little Vixen at the Royal Opera Covent Garden; The Silver Tassie at the English National Opera; The Seraglio and The Barber of Seville (Glyndebourne).
Work in film and television include Persuasion for BBC Television & US Cinema which won William Dudley a Bafta and a Royal Television Society Award; The History of the 1587 Rose Theatre and Scenes from Marlowe's Plays at The Rose Theatre.
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