# Bob Crowley

Bob Crowley RDI (born 10 June 1952) is a theatre designer (scenic and costume), and theatre director. He lives between London, New York and West Cork in the south west of Ireland.

## Career

Born in Cork, Ireland on 10 June 1952, Bob Crowley is the brother of director John Crowley. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He has designed over 20 productions for the National Theatre including Ghetto, The Madness of George III, Carousel and The History Boys. He has also designed numerous productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company including The Plantagenets, for which he won an Olivier award, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which later had a successful run in London, followed by a transfer to Broadway. Opera productions include the critically acclaimed production of The Magic Flute directed by Nicholas Hytner for the English National Opera and La Traviata for the Royal Opera House.
Crowley is a frequent collaborator with Nicholas Hytner, and as well as on Broadway has worked extensively at the Royal National Theatre in London and with England's Royal Shakespeare Company.
Bob Crowley has received multiple Tony Award nominations, and has won seven times, for designing the Broadway productions of Carousel (1994), Aida (2000), The History Boys (2006), Mary Poppins (2007), The Coast of Utopia (2007), Once (2012) and An American in Paris (2015). He received three other Tony Award nominations in 2015, two for his costumes on The Audience and An American in Paris and one for his scenic designs for Skylight. He is a two-time recipient of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design and a three-time recipient of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design.
Crowley designed set and costume for Mary Poppins, which played in both the West End and on Broadway. He designed and directed the Phil Collins musical Tarzan. He is the set and costume designer for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, and the costume designer of the 2012 European version of The Little Mermaid. In 2015 he designed for three Broadway shows, The Audience, An American in Paris, and Skylight. He was the set and costumes designer of the 2022 ballet Like Water for Chocolate.

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 1985 | Laurence Olivier Award | Designer of the Year | Henry V, Love's Labour's Lost and The Winter's Tale | Nominated |
| 1986 | Laurence Olivier Award | Designer of the Year | As You Like It and Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Nominated |
| 1987 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Nominated |
| 1987 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Nominated |
| 1987 | Laurence Olivier Award | Designer of the Year | A Penny for a Song and Macbeth | Nominated |
| 1990 | Laurence Olivier Award | Designer of the Year | Ghetto, Hedda Gabler, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and The Plantagenets | Won |
| 1992 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Set Design | When She Danced, Murmuring Judges and The Night of the Iguana | Nominated |
| 1993 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Set Design | Carousel, Henry IV and No Man's Land | Nominated |
| 1993 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Costume Design | Carousel and Hamlet | Nominated |
| 1994 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Carousel | Won |
| 1998 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | The Capeman | Nominated |
| 1999 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | The Iceman Cometh | Nominated |
| 1999 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Twelfth Night | Nominated |
| 2000 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | Aida | Won |
| 2000 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design | Aida | Nominated |
| 2001 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design | The Invention of Love | Nominated |
| 2001 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Costume Design | Cressida and The Witches of Eastwick | Nominated |
| 2004 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Set Design | Mourning Becomes Electra | Nominated |
| 2005 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Set Design | Mary Poppins | Nominated |
| 2005 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Costume Design | Mary Poppins | Nominated |
| 2006 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | The History Boys | Won |
| 2007 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | The Coast of Utopia | Won |
| 2007 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Mary Poppins | Won |
| 2007 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | Mary Poppins | Nominated |
| 2011 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Set Design | Love Never Dies | Nominated |
| 2011 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Costume Design | Love Never Dies | Nominated |
| 2012 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | Once | Won |
| 2013 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Costume Design | The Audience | Nominated |
| 2014 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | The Glass Menagerie | Nominated |
| 2014 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Set Design | Once | Nominated |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | Skylight | Nominated |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Play | The Audience | Nominated |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Musical | An American in Paris | Won |
| 2015 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Musical | An American in Paris | Nominated |
| 2015 | New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards | Special Citation (Distinguished Achievement in Scenic and Costume Design) | Special Citation (Distinguished Achievement in Scenic and Costume Design) | Honored |
| 2017 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Set Design | Aladdin | Nominated |
| 2018 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Set Design | An American in Paris | Won |
| 2019 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Set Design | The Inheritance | Nominated |
| 2020 | Tony Awards | Best Scenic Design of a Play | The Inheritance | Nominated |
| 2020 | Tony Awards | Best Costume Design of a Play | The Inheritance | Nominated |
| 2020 | Laurence Olivier Award | Best Set Design | Mary Poppins | Won |