Tom Piper
About Tom Piper
Theatre credits: The Duchess (of Malfi),Rhinoceros, Mrs Puntila (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh); Hay Fever (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh/Citizens Theatre); Endgame, King Lear, Hamlet, The Libertine, Nora (Citizens Theatre); Cyrano de Bergerac (National Theatre of Scotland/Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh/Citizens Theatre); Pelléas Et Mélisande, Eugene Onegin , Don Giovanni (Garsington Opera); Frankenstein, Hedda Gabler (Northern Stage); iHo, Haystack (Hampstead Theatre); Harrogate (HighTide/Royal Court); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet (Royal Shakespeare Company/UK tour); Carmen La Cubana (Le Chatelet, Paris); White teeth (Kiln); Red Velvet (West End/Tricycle Theatre/ New York); A Wolf in Snakeskin Shoes (Tricycle Theatre); The King’s Speech (Birmingham REP/Chichester Festival Theatre/UK tour); Orfeo (Royal Opera House); Tamburlaine The Great (Theatre for a New Audience, New York). The Great Wave (RNT). Faith (RSC/Coventry2021)
Other credits: Tom designed Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red at the Tower of London and received an MBE for services to Theatre and First World War commemorations. Other recent exhibitions include: Alice Curiouser and Curiouser, Winnie-the-Pooh, Curtain Up (V&A, Lincoln Centre New York); Shakespeare Staging the World (British Museum). He was Associate Designer at the RSC for ten years and has designed over thirty productions for the company.
Awards: Tom won an Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for The Histories (RSC). He also received an award for Best Design, CATS, for Twelfth Night (Dundee Rep)