Alison Chitty
An image from A Sense of History, one of the productions that also features Alison Chitty.
Alison Chitty

Alison Chitty

October 16, 1948

Alison Chitty OBE RDI (born October 16, 1948) is an Olivier Award winning production designer and set and costume designer, known for her collaborations with Mike Leigh, Francesca Zambello, Peter Gill and Sir Peter Hall. She is also the Director of the Motley Theatre Design Course, a successor to Motley Theatre Design Group. Both organisations included Margaret Harris as one of their founders.

She studied at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design, and subsequently was resident at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent. She was resident designer at the Royal National Theatre for eight years, and has also designed for English National Opera, Royal Opera House, Santa Fe Opera and many other theatres internationally.

For Mike Leigh she was production designer on Life is Sweet, Naked and Secrets and Lies.

Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies

1996

Naked

Naked

1993

Life Is Sweet

Life Is Sweet

1990

A Sense of History

A Sense of History

1992

Aria

Aria

1987

The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw

2004

Orpheus Descending

Orpheus Descending

1990

Verdi Nabucco

Verdi Nabucco

2015