Tom Piper
Set Designer
Tom was Associate Designer at the RSC for ten years and has designed over fifty produc-tions for the company. He was Associate Designer at Kiln theatre (2020-22).
Theatre work includes: Medea (EIF/NTS); Cyrano de Bergerac ( Lyceum /Citizens /NTS); The Scent of Roses, Lyceum Christmas Tales, The Duchess (of Malfi), Rhinoc-eros, Mrs Puntila, Hay Fever (Lyceum ); Endgame, King Lear, Hamlet, The Liber-tine, Nora (Citizens);Girl on an Altar, White Teeth (Kiln) Rusalka, (Garsington Opera/EIF);Faith (RSC/Coventry City of Culture) iHo, The Haystack (Hampstead);Carmen La Cubana (Le Chatelet, Paris); Red Velvet (West End/Tricycle Theatre/ New York); Orfeo (Royal Opera House); Tamburlaine The Great (TFANA New York);The Great Wave (RNT); and Turn of the Screw (Wiltons/OperaGlassworks film).
Design credits: 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.
Exhibition credits: Living with Death (Humboldt Forum Berlin) Alice Curiouser and Curi-ouser, Winnie-the-Pooh, Curtain Up (V&A), and Shakespeare Staging the World (British Museum).
Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for The Histories (RSC); Best Design (Scottish Critics awards) for Twelfth Night (Dundee Rep), and Macbeth (an undoing).