Michael Taylor
Set and Costume Designer
Current & Forthcoming credits include: The Good Life (Theatre Royal Bath)
Credits include: West Side Story (Leicester Curve); White Christmas (Leicester Curve and Dominion Theatre); The Man In The White Suit (Wyndhams); Valued Friends (Rose Theatre Kingston); An Officer And A Gentleman (Curve, Leicester & UK Tour); The Winslow Boy (Birmingham Rep & UK Tour); The Best Man (Playhouse Theatre, West End & UK Tour); Scrooge The Musical; What The Butler Saw; A Streetcar Named Desire (Curve, Leicester); The Dresser (Duke of York’s); The Ladykillers (Gielgud Theatre; Olivier Award nomination for Best Designer); The Jolly Christmas Postman (Oxford Playhouse); All My Sons (Rose Theatre Kingston & Hong Kong); Ballyturk; The Lonesome West (Tron Theatre); Two Way Mirror (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); Lawrence After Arabia; Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme; Clever Dick; Out in the Open; Keepers; The Awakening; My Boy Jack (Hampstead Theatre); The Crucible; Waiting For Godot; Faith Healer; A View From The Bridge; The Price; The Cherry Orchard; The Man Who Had All The Luck; All My Sons; Les Liaisons Dangereuse; Death Of A Salesman (Edinburgh Lyceum); Ben Hur; The Shadow of a Gunman; John Bull’s Other Island (Tricycle); The Heresy of Love; Doctor Scroggy’s War; Blue Stockings; Anne Boleyn; All’s Well That Ends Well; The Winter’s Tale; In Extremis/Eternal Love (Shakespeare’s Globe & UK Tours); A Christmas Carol (Northampton Royal Theatre and Corby Cube); After Electra (Plymouth Theatre Royal, Tricycle); Silver Lining; The Clean House; Dead Simple; Chin Chin (UK Tours); A Little Hotel on the Side (Theatre Royal Bath); Sherlock Holmes: The Best Kept Secret (West Yorkshire Playhouse & UK Tour); The Misanthrope (Liverpool Playhouse & ETT Tour); Amphibians (RSC); Mountain Language (written and directed by Harold Pinter, National Theatre); Rafts and Dreams (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs); Nova Scotia; The Road to Nirvana (Traverse); Darwin In Malibu (Birmingham Rep); Winding the Ball (Royal Exchange); Private Lives; Present Laughter (Theatre Royal Bath & Tour); Vita and Virginia (Altes Schauspielhaus, Stuttgart).
He won the Drama Magazine Best Designer Award for Tony Marchant’s The Attractions. For The Ladykillers, he has received nominations for Best Set Design at the Olivier Awards and the Whatsonstage.com Awards 2012/2013.
Michael trained as a designer at RADA.