Soutra Gilmour
Soutra Gilmour is a British set designer. She is primarily known for her work on the London stage. She won the Evening Standard Award for Best Set Design in 2012 for her work on the Donmar Warehouse production of Inadmissible Evidence and the National Theatre production of Antigone.[1] She is also a past nominee for three Olivier Awards and three Tony Awards.
Career
[edit]She was born in London and trained at the Wimbledon School of Art.[2] Gilmour has been one of the most in demand theatre creatives across the UK of the 2000s having designed over 60 drama and opera productions, largely in London theatres. Gilmour designed Running With Lions by Sian Carter at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in 2022, and the original West End production of Burlesque.
Most recently Gilmour has been praised for her work on London's St. James Theatre revival of Urinetown: The Musical, the West End and Broadway revival of Sunset Boulevard and the West End and Broadway production of Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York), the latter which garnered her a third Tony Award nomination.[3]
Stage credits
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Venue | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Hair | Scenic Designer | London Fringe Festival | [4][5] |
| 2008 | The Lover & The Collection | West End, Harold Pinter Theatre | ||
| 2011 | Inadmissible Evidence | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | West End, Donmar Warehouse | |
| Reasons to be Pretty | West End, Almeida Theatre | |||
| 2012 | The Duchess of Malfi | Scenic Designer | West End, Old Vic Theatre | |
| Antigone | West End, Royal National Theatre | |||
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | Broadway, American Airlines Theatre | ||
| Merrily We Roll Along | Designer | West End, Menier Chocolate Factory | ||
| 2013 | The Hothouse | West End, Trafalgar Studios | ||
| The Pride | ||||
| The Night Alive | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | Off-Broadway, Atlantic Theatre Company | ||
| 2014 | Urinetown | Production Designer | West End, Apollo Theatre | |
| 2015 | The Homecoming | Designer | West End, Trafalgar Studios | |
| 2017 | Twelfth Night | West End, Royal National Theatre | ||
| The Wild Party | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | West End, The Other Palace | ||
| My Brilliant Friend | West End, The Rose Theatre | |||
| Guards at the Taj | Designr | West End, Bush Theatre | ||
| 2018 | Strictly Ballroom | Scenic Designer | West End, Piccadilly Theatre | |
| The Turn of the Screw | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | West End, Open Air Theatre | ||
| Pinter at the Pinter | Season Designer | West End, Harold Pinter Theatre | ||
| 2019 | Evita | Designer | West End, Open Fist Theatre | |
| Betrayal | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | Broadway, Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre | ||
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Designer | West End, Playhouse Theatre | ||
| 2020 | Timon of Athens | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | Off-Broadway, Theatre for a New Audience | |
| A Doll's House | Designer | West End, Playhouse Theatre | ||
| 2021 | & Juliet | Scenic Designer | West End, Shaftesbury Theatre | |
| 2022 | Running with Lions | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | West End, Lyric Hammersmith | |
| Cyrano de Bergerac | Designer | Off-Broadway, Brooklyn Academy of Music | ||
| Closer | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | West End, Lyric Hammersmith | ||
| & Juliet | Scenic Designer | Broadway, Stephen Sondheim Theatre | ||
| Merrily We Roll Along | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | Off-Broadway, New York Theatre Workshop | ||
| 2023 | A Doll's House | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | Broadway, Hudson Theatre | |
| Further than the Furthest Thing | Designer | West End, Young Vic Theatre | ||
| Sunset Blvd. | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | West End, Savoy Theatre | ||
| Merrily We Roll Along | Broadway, Hudson Theatre | |||
| 2024 | Just for One Day | Scenic Designer | West End, Old Vic Theatre | |
| The Effect | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | Off-Broadway, The Shed | ||
| Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) | Designer | West End, Criterion Theatre | ||
| & Juliet | Scenic Designer | U.S. National Tour | ||
| Sunset Blvd. | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | Broadway, St. James Theatre | ||
| Burlesque | Scenic Designer | Manchester Opera House | ||
| 2025 | Much Ado About Nothing | Designer | West End, Theatre Royal Drury Lane | |
| Waiting for Godot | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | Broadway, Hudson Theatre | ||
| Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) | Broadway, Longacre Theatre | |||
| Burlesque | Scenic Designer | West End, Savoy Theatre | ||
| Woman in Mind | Scenic Designer, Costume Designer | West End, Duke of York's Theatre | ||
| Evita | West End, The Palladium | |||
| 2027 | Broadway, Winter Garden Theatre | |||
| Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) | U.S. National Tour |
Awards and nominations
[edit]| Year | Award | Category | Work | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Set Design | The Lover & The Collection | Nominated | [6] |
| 2013 | Tony Award | Best Costume Design of a Play | Cyrano de Bergerac | Nominated | [7] |
| 2014 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Costume Design | Merrily We Roll Along | Nominated | [8] |
| 2020 | Best Set Design | & Juliet | Nominated | [9] | |
| Tony Award | Best Scenic Design of a Play | Betrayal | Nominated | [10] | |
| 2024 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Set Design | Sunset Blvd. | Nominated | [11] |
| 2026 | Tony Award | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) | Nominated | [12] |
| Drama Desk Award | Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play | Waiting for Godot | Nominated | [13] |
References
[edit]- ^ Dominic Cavendish (November 2012). "The Evening Standard Awards: a hit-and-miss affair". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ Interview
- ^ "The 2026 Tony Award Nominations". Playbill. 5 May 2026. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Soutra Gilmour: Credits, Bio, News & More". BroadwayWorld. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
- ^ "Soutra Gilmour". Playbill Vault. Playbill. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
- ^ "Olivier awards 2009: the winners". The Guardian. 9 March 2009. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "The 2013 Tony Awards: winners announced". New York Theatre Guide. 9 June 2013. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Olivier Awards 2014". Official London Theatre. Society of London Theatre. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Thomas, Sophie (26 October 2020). "2020 Olivier Awards: Full list of winners". London Theatre. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
- ^ "2020 Tony Award winners announced". New York Theatre Guide. 26 September 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "2024 Olivier Awards: Full list of winners". London Theatre. 14 April 2024. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
- ^ "The 2026 Tony Award Nominations". Playbill. 5 May 2026. Retrieved 7 June 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Gans, Andrew (17 May 2026). "Ragtime Leads 2026 Drama Desk Awards; Read the Full List of Winners". Playbill. Retrieved 19 May 2026.
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