Tim Hatley

Tim Hatley (born February 28, 1967) is a British set and costume designer for theater and film. He is the winner of the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design, and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design.

Hatley was educated at Bearwood College, Berkshire and trained in Theatre Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London from 1986 to 1989. He has designed for Theatre de Complicite, the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre, the West End, and Broadway. He has done the costumes and/or scenic design for seven Broadway productions, both musicals and dramas, starting with Stanley in 1997 through Shrek the Musical in 2008. For Shrek he also designed the puppets. The Variety Seattle review noted: "Set and costume designer Tim Hatley ("Monty Python’s Spamalot") has created a wonderland of swamps, forests and castles populated by colorful fairy-tale creatures and puppets great and small."

Film production/ costume design Stage Beauty 2003 (dir. Richard Eyre) Closer 2004 (dir. Mike Nichols) Notes on a Scandal 2006 (dir. Richard Eyre).

For the West End he was costume and set designer for the Monty Python musical Spamalot (2006) directed by Mike Nichols, having also done the same for Broadway. He designed sets, costumes and puppets for "Shrek the Musical" (Broadway, West End & US Tour), sets and costumes for "Betty Blue Eyes" (West End 2011), Private Lives (2001, Noel Coward Theatre) and Humble Boy (2002, Gielgud Theatre). At the National Theatre he has designed over 20 productions, including Rafta, Rafta..., Henry V, and Vincent in Brixton. Endgame in September 2009 (Theatre de Complicite/ West End) and Mrs Klein in October 2009 (Almeida Theatre).

Exhibition Design includes: Vivienne Westwood- a London Fashion, at the Museum of London "Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes" at "Victoria and Albert Museum"

He Lives in London and Sussex, with the interior architect Rasshied Din, founder of DIN Associates.

Awards

• 1997 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design for Stanley
• 2002 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design and Drama Desk Award for Private Lives
• 2002 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design for Humble Boy and Private Lives
• 2009 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Set and Costume Design for Shrek the Musical
• 2005 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design nomination for Spamalot
• 2005 Tony Award for Best Costume Design nomination for Spamalot
• 2009 Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Shrek the Musical
• 2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design for Shrek the Musical
• 2009 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design for Shrek the Musical

External links

• Tim Hatley at the Internet Broadway Database
• Tim Hatley at the Internet Movie Database
• Official site
• Credits