William Dudley RDI (born 4 March 1947 in London, England) is a British theatre designer.
Dudley is the son of William Stuart Dudley and his wife Dorothy Irene (née Stacey). He was educated at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Slade School of Art. He is a member of the Society of British Theatre Designers. He is married to the theatre director Lucy Bailey.
He designed his first production in October 1970, Hamlet for Nottingham Playhouse . Since then, he has designed the following productions:
The Duchess of Malfi (Royal Court ) – 1971Man Is Man , Bertolt Brecht (Royal Court ) – 1971Anarchist (Royal Court Upstairs) – 1971Tyger (co-designed for the National Theatre ) – July 1971Cato Street (Young Vic ) – 1971The Good Natur'd Man (National) – 1971Live Like Pigs (Royal Court Upstairs) – 1972I Claudius (Queen's Theatre) – 1972The Baker, the Baker's Wife and the Baker's Boy (Newcastle) – 1972Rooted (Hampstead Theatre ) – March 1973Magnificence ; Sweet Talk and The Merry-Go-Round (Royal Court) – 1973Ashes (Open Space) – January 1974The Corn is Green (Watford Palace) – 1974Twelfth Night , director Peter Gill (RSC Stratford) – August 1974Harding's Luck (Greenwich Theatre ) – December 1974Fish in the Sea (Half Moon Theatre ) – February 1975As You Like It (Nottingham Playhouse ) – 1975The Fool (Royal Court) – 1975The Norman Conquests (Berlin) – 1976Small Change , Peter Gill (Royal Court) – July 1976As You Like It (opening of Riverside Studios ) – May 1976Ivanov , director David Jones (RSC Aldwych Theatre) – September 1976The Cherry Orchard , director Peter Gill, (Riverside Studios) – January 1978That Good Between Us (RSC Donmar Warehouse ) – July 1977Lavender Blue (National, Cottesloe) – November 1977Touched (Nottingham Playhouse at the Old Vic) – September 1977The World Turned Upside Down (National, Cottesloe) – 2 November 1978Has 'Washington' Legs? (National, Cottesloe) – 29 November 1978Billy Budd (The Metropolitan Opera House , New York) – 1978Dispatches (National, Cottesloe) – 6 June 1979Undiscovered Country (National, Olivier) – 20 June 1979Lark Rise and Candleford (National, Cottesloe) – 1979Don Quixote (National, Olivier) – 1982Schweyk in the Second World War , Bertolt Brecht (National, Olivier) – 1982Small Change (National, Cottesloe) – 1983Cinderella , Pantomime (National, Lyttelton) – December 1983The Mysteries: Doomsday/The Nativity/The Passion , designed and lit (National, Cottesloe; Lyceum Theatre) – 1985The Party (RSC The Pit) – 1985Richard III (RSC Barbican Theatre) – 1985Today (RSC The Pit) – 1985Mutiny , David Essex musical (Piccadilly Theatre ) – 1985The Critic/The Real Inspector Hound (National, Olivier) – 1985Edmond , David Mamet (Royal Court) – 1985The Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC Barbican Theatre) – 1986 and 1987Futurists (National, Cottesloe) – 1986Prairie du Chien/The Shawl (Royal Court Upstairs) – 1986Kafka's Dick (Royal Court) – 1986Country Dancing (RSC The Pit) – 1987Richard II (RSC Barbican Theatre) – 1987Entertaining Strangers (National, Cottesloe) – 1987Girlfriends , Howard Goodall musical (Playhouse Theatre ) – 1987Waiting for Godot (National, Lyttelton) – 1987Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (National, Lyttelton) – 1988The Shaughran (National, Olivier) – 1988 and 1989The Changeling (National, Lyttelton) – 1988The Father , August Strindberg (National, Cottesloe) – 1988The Voysey Inheritance (National, Cottesloe) – 1989Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (dir Howard Davies) New York – 1990Amadeus (dir Peter Hall) Old Vic – October 1998; New York – 1999Blue/Orange by Joe Penhall (dir Roger Michell ), National Cottesloe – April 2000; Duchess Theatre – April 2001All My Sons by Arthur Miller (dir Howard Davies) National Lyttelton – July 2000; National Lyttelton – August 2001Entertaining Mr Sloane (dir Terry Johnson ) Arts Theatre – January 2001The York Realist (written and dir Peter Gill) Royal Court – January 2002; Strand Theatre – March 2002The Coast of Utopia : Voyage/Shipwreck/Salvage , trilogy by Tom Stoppard (dir Trevor Nunn) National – August 2002The Breath of Life by David Hare (dir Howard Davies) Theatre Royal Haymarket – October 2002Honour by Joanna Murray-Smith (dir Roger Michell) National Cottesloe – 2003 Hitchcock Blonde (written and dir Terry Johnson) Royal Court and Lyric Theatre – 2003The Permanent Way by David Hare (dir Max Stafford Clark) National Cottesloe – January 2004 [1]Cyrano de Bergerac (dir Howard Davies) National Olivier – April 2004Old Times by Harold Pinter (dir Roger Michell) Donmar Warehouse – July 2004The Woman in White musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber (dir Trevor Nunn) Palace Theatre – September 2004; New York – 2005Titus Andronicus (dir Lucy Bailey) Shakespeare's Globe – 2006The Beggar's Opera (dir Lucy Bailey) Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park – 2011Fortune's Fool (dir Lucy Bailey) The Old Vic – 2013.
Awards include:
Critics' Circle Theatre Awards 2002, Best Designer for The Coast of Utopia Trilogy Olivier Awards 2004, Olivier Award for Best Set Design for Hitchcock Blonde