Louie Whitemore

Costume & Set Design

Louie’s many designs for both set and costume have garnered a host of nominations and awards including: Olivier Nomination for Best Production in an Affiliate Theatre, Offie Nomination for Best Costume Designer for The Daughter-in-Law at the Arcola Theatre, Best Set Designer for Tonight at 8.30 at Jermyn Street, and Best Costume Design for Suite in Three Keys at the Orange Tree Theatre/Theatre Royal Bath.

Her design credits for theatre include: Around the World in 80 Days, Tom’s Midnight Garden, Handbagged, Single Spies, Bold Girls, Miss Julie, Creditors, Lady Killers, Little Voice and Dear Uncle (Theatre by the Lake), Suite in Three Keys and The Circle (Orange Tree Theatre, UK Tour & Theatre Royal Bath), Sweet Charity (ArtsEd),  Krapp’s Last Tape / Eh Joe / Old Tune, Love All, Original Death Rabbit, For Services Rendered, Tonight at 8.30, Tomorrow at Noon, Creditors and Miss Julie (Jermyn Street Theatre), A Place For We and The Last Temptation of Boris Johnson (The Park Theatre), Stewart Lee: Content Provider / Snowflake / Tornado (UK tour and BBC 2), Beautiful Game (Arts Ed), Three Birds (Bush Theatre/ Royal Exchange Manchester), Good Soul (Young Vic), Egusi Soup (Soho Theatre), Mud (Gate Theatre), The Daughter-In-Law, The Dog, the Night and the Knife and A Game of Love and Chance  (Arcola Theatre), Blithe Spirit (Beijing), The Minotaur and My Father Odysseus (Unicorn Theatre), The Winter’s Tale (NAPA Karachi), Lost Land (Jenin, Palestine), Shakespeare Untold and The Magic Playroom (UK tour, Pleasance Theatre), Emilia (GSMD), I Am a Superhero (Old Vic New Voices at Theatre503), Buttons (King’s Head, Islington), Potted Sherlock (Vaudeville Theatre, UK tour), and Ladies That Dig (The Dukes and UK Tour).

Louie’s opera design credits include: Messiah (Danish Opera, Frankfurt Opera), Carmen (Dorset Opera), Banished (Blackheath Halls), Serse / Der Kaiser (RSC Glasgow), Der Zar lässt sich photographieren, Montiverdi Madrigals and Opera Makers (GSMD), ETO Autumn Scenes 2020 (UK Tour), The Magic Flute, Carmen, La Bohème, Albert Herring and The Marriage of Figaro (costume design for Co Opera Co).

Design credits for dance include: Nostalgia (Northern Ballet), Nora / She Persisted (English National Ballet), The Nutcracker (Shanghai Ballet), Egle (Lithuania National Ballet), ENB Choreographics Programme 2015 – 2017 and Dance Journeys 2016/ 2017/ 2019 (English National Ballet at Sadler’s Wells/The Barbican).

Associate design credits include: Manor (The National Theatre), designed by Lez Brotherston; Siegfried / The Ring Cycle (Gothenburg Opera), designed by Alison Chitty; Greif (The National Theatre), designed by Alison Chitty; Pirates of Penzance (ENO), designed by Alison Chitty.

Louie is also Associate Designer to Theatre by the Lake and Jermyn Street Theatre.