Bob Crowley

For other people with the same name, see Robert Crowley (disambiguation).

Bob Crowley
Born	(1952-06-10) 10 June 1952 (age 72) Cork, Republic of Ireland
Occupation(s)	Theatre designer, director
Relatives	John Crowley (brother)
Awards	Tony Award for Best Scenic Design Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Musical

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^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3] He was the set and costumes designer of the 2022 ballet Like Water for Chocolate.^[4][5][6]

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
		Best Costume Design		Nominated
	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
		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
		Best Scenic Design	Twelfth Night	Nominated
2000	Tony Awards	Best Scenic Design	Aida	Won
		Best Costume Design		Nominated
2001	Tony Awards	Best Scenic Design	The Invention of Love	Nominated
	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
		Best Costume Design		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
		Best Scenic Design of a Musical	Mary Poppins	Won
		Best Costume Design of a Musical		Nominated
2011	Laurence Olivier Award	Best Set Design	Love Never Dies	Nominated
		Best Costume Design		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
	Laurence Olivier Award	Best Set Design	Once	Nominated
2015	Tony Awards	Best Scenic Design of a Play	Skylight	Nominated
		Best Costume Design of a Play	The Audience	Nominated
		Best Scenic Design of a Musical	An American in Paris	Won
		Best Costume Design of a Musical		Nominated
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
		Best Costume Design of a Play		Nominated
	Laurence Olivier Award	Best Set Design	Mary Poppins	Won

References

1. "Bob Crowley". Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2012.
2. Gans, Andrew. "69th Annual Tony Awards Nominations Announced!" Playbill, 28 April 2015
3. "Bob Crowley Credits on Broadway" playbillvault.com. Retrieved 2 May 2015
4. "Like Water for Chocolate". American Ballet Theatre. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
5. Mercado, Mario R. (14 June 2023). "In Researching Like Water for Chocolate, Tony-Winning Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon Traveled to Mexico". Playbill. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
6. "'Like Water for Chocolate' brings food, magic, spice and lust to NY's grandest ballet stage". AP News. 20 June 2023. Retrieved 25 June 2024.

External links

• Bob Crowley at the Internet Broadway Database
• Bob Crowley at IMDb