Nicky Gillibrand

Nicky Gillibrand is a costume designer for theatre and opera.  She is the winner of the Prague Quadrennial Gold Award for Best Costume Design for the RSC’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and she is twice Tony-nominated for her designs for the musical Billy Elliot and the Broadway transfer of the National Theatre production of Angels in America.

Theatre credits: Machinal (Theatre Royal Bath); Spring Awakening, The Duchess of Malfi (Almeida); Absolute Hell, Angels in America (also Broadway), Everyman, The Seagull, A Little Night Music, Mother Clapp’s Molly House, Powerbook  (National Theatre); Once in a Lifetime, The Trial, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Public Enemy, The Government Inspector, Vernon God Little, Annie Get Your Gun, The Good Soul of Szechuan, King Lear, Six Characters in Search of an Author (Young Vic); Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. and Imp. (Royal Court Theatre). West End credits include Billy Elliot the Musical (West End, Broadway and worldwide), The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Lupa (RSC). She is the Winner of the Gold Award for Best Costume Design, Prague Quadrenale 2003 for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC).

Opera credits: Wozzeck, Samson et Dalila, Boris Godunov, Il trittico, Anna Nicole (also BAM in New York), The Gambler, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Gianni Schicchi, L’Heure Espagnole, Queen of Spades (ROH); Die Tote Stadt, Don Giovanni, Girl of the Golden West, Rodelinda, The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, Julietta, Turk in Italy, Boris Godunov, Pelléas, Peter Grimes (ENO); Giant (Aldeburgh Festival and ROH Linbury); Fiery Angel (Brussels); Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (La Scala, Japan); Cendrillon, Der Rosenkavalier, The Rape of Lucretia, Miserly Knight, Flight, Don Giovanni (Glyndebourne); La traviata, Hansel and Gretel (set and costumes), Of Thee I Sing, Pelléas, Don Carlos, Wozzeck (Opera North); Die Zauberflöte (Aix Festival), Flight (Amsterdam); Rusalka (Copenhagen, Finland); War and Peace (Paris); Midsummer Marriage, Pelléas (Munich).

Nicky also designed the costumes for the Quay Brother’s 1995 feature film Institute Benjamenta.