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Designs for theatre include:
London, West End
Carousel, I Claudius, Mutiny!, Kiss Me Kate, Girlfriends, Matador, Heartbreak House, A Streetcar Named Desire, My Night With Reg, Lenny, The Breath of Life, Hitchcock Blonde (Olivier Award), Old Times, The Woman in White in London & New York (Theatregoers’ Choice Award for Best Set Designer), Betrayal, The Last Confession and The Importance of being Earnest.
National Theatre over 60 productions including
Lavender Blue, Larkrise to Candleford, Lost Worlds, The World Turned Upside Down, Undiscovered Country (Olivier Award), Dispatches, Don Quixote, Schweyk in the Second World War, The Mysteries (Olivier Award), The Real Inspector Hound, The Critic (Olivier Award), Entertaining Strangers, Waiting for Godot, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (also in NY), The Shaughraun, The Changeling, Bartholomew Fair, The Voysey Inheritance, The Crucible, The Coup, Pygmalion and The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (both Olivier Awards), On The Ledge, Johnny on a Spot, Under Milk Wood, Wild Oats, The Alchemist, The Homecoming, The London Cuckolds, Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, The Forest, Blue/Orange, All My Sons (Olivier Award ), The Coast of Utopia (Critics Circle Award), Honour, The Permanent Way and Landscape with Weapon.
Royal Court The Duchess of Malfi, Man is Man, Small Change, The Fool, Hamlet (Drama Award) Edmund, Kafka's Dick, Etta Jenks and Hitchcock Blonde, I Licked A Slag's Deodorant (Royal
Court/Ambassadors), The York Realist (and West End/English Touring Theatre) and Rat in the Skull (and Duke of York's).
Old Vic Marya, Amadeus (also LA & NY).
Almeida Theatre
The Deep Blue Sea, Tongue Of A Bird.
Globe Theatre Titus Andronicus.
Hampstead Theatre
Some Sunny Day, The Giant.
RSC: Ivanov, Twelfth Night, That Good Between Us, Richard III, The Party, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Olivier Award), Richard II, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Country Dancing, The General From America.
Theatre Royal, Bath
Look Back In Anger
Glasgow The Ship (for Cultural Capital of Europe Year 1990: Theatre Crafts International Award)
The Big Picnic (Harland and Wolff Shipyard 1994).
Neues Schauspielhaus Hamburg
Hamlet.
William also designed the sets for Roman Polanski’s acclaimed musical version of The Dance Of The Vampires, (Vienna 1997; Berlin and German tour from 2006). He has provided the sets for a new cruise vessel entertainment for Princess Lines/Cunard (2008- ). His designs for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens were seen during summer 2009 and at the O2 over Christmas; they will be seen again in the USA in 2010.
Designs for Opera include:
Tales of Hoffman, Der Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, The Cunning Little Vixen (Royal Opera House); The Silver Tassie (English National Opera), The Seraglio, The Barber of Seville (Glyndebourne); The Barber of Seville, Idomeneo, The Flying Dutchman, Anna Christie (WNO);
Billy Budd (Metropolitan Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago);
The Ring Cycle (Bayreuth); Un Ballo in Maschera (Salzburg Festival); Lucia di Lammermoor (Opera National de Paris).
Exhibitions: The Rose Theatre Archaeological site Bankside, London.
Films: Persuasion for BBC Television & US Cinema (Bafta Award & Royal Television Society Award) 1994,
The History of the 1587 Rose Theatre 1999
Scenes from Marlowe's Plays at The Rose Theatre 2008.
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