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'''Nicholas Ronald Ormerod''' OBE (born 9 December 1951) is a British theatre designer and co-founder of the international theatre company Cheek by Jowl.<ref name=":0">{{cite web| url=http://www.cheekbyjowl.com/nick_ormerod.php | title=Cheek by Jowl: Nick Ormerod | work=information | publisher=Cheek by Jowl | location=London | accessdate=24 October 2017 }}</ref> In 1981 he founded Cheek by Jowl with Declan Donnellan, and they are the company's co-artistic directors. In addition to his Cheek by Jowl productions, Ormerod has made theatre, opera and ballet with companies across the world. He studied law at Trinity College, Cambridge before studying for BA in theatre design at the Wimbledon School of Art.<ref name=":0" />
==Biography== Ormerod was born and grew up in London, England. He studied law at Trinity College, Cambridge before studying for a BA in theatre design at the Wimbledon School of Art.<ref name=":0" /> In 1981 Ormerod founded Cheek by Jowl with Declan Donnellan. The company has performed across the world, working in over 400 cities in 40 countries spanning six continents. Since 2006 Cheek by Jowl have been part of the Barbican's International Theatre Program (BITE) resulting in co-productions of The Changeling (2006), Cymbeline (2007) and Troilus and Cressida (2008).<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.cheekbyjowl.com/productions.php | title=Cheek by Jowl: Productions | work=information | publisher=Cheek by Jowl | location=London | accessdate=24 October 2017 }}</ref>
In addition to his work with Cheek by Jowl, Ormerod designed the Royal Shakespeare Company’s productions of ''School for Scandal'' (1998) and ''King Lear'' (2002 Academy Production). In 2005, he co-wrote an adaptation of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (2005) for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Declan Donnellan.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/RSCgreatexpect-rev | title=British Theatre Guide: Great Expectations | work=information | publisher=British Theatre Guide | location=London | accessdate=31 October 2017 }}</ref> He designed Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida for the Burgtheater, Vienna in 2000, and Falstaff for the Salzburg Festival in 2001.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://archive.dublintheatrefestival.com/artists/display.asp?m=&artistID=157 | title=Dublin Theatre Festival Archive: Nick Ormerod | work=information | publisher=Dublin Theatre Festival | location=London | accessdate=31 October 2017 }}</ref> In London, Ormerod designed Hay Fever at the Savoy Theatre, and Shakespeare in Love (play) at the Noël Coward Theatre.
For the Royal National Theatre Ormerod designed both parts of Angels in America by Tony Kushner, as well as Sweeney Todd, Peer Gynt and Fuenteovejuna.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.bolshoyrussia.com/company/personnel/designer/Nick_Ormerod/ | title=Bolshoi Theatre Profile: Nick Ormerod | work=information | publisher=Bolshoi Theatre | location=London | accessdate=31 October 2017 }}</ref>
In 2000 he and Donnellan formed a company of actors in Moscow, under the auspices of The Chekhov Festival, whose productions include Boris Godunov, ''Twelfth Night'' and Three Sisters. For the Bolshoi Theatre he has designed Romeo and Juliet in 2003, and Hamlet in 2015. Other work in Russia includes ''The Winter's Tale'' for the Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg in 1997.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.cheekbyjowl.com/nick_ormerod.php | title=Cheek by Jowl: Nick Ormerod | work=information | publisher=Cheek by Jowl | location=London | accessdate=31 October 2017 }}</ref> With Cheek by Jowl he and Donnellan have produced further work in Russian including The Tempest with the Chekhov Festival and Measure for Measure in a co-production with Moscow's Pushkin Theatre.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/gFp4MvZfX9VScWLms5CJhp/cheek-by-jowl-pushkin-theatre-moscows-measure-for-measure | title=BBC: Shakespeare Lives | work=information | publisher=BBC | location=London | accessdate=31 October 2017 }}</ref>
Ormerod was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award Designer of the Year in 1988 for ''A Family Affair'', ''The Tempest'' and ''Philoctetes'' and won the Corral de Comedias Award with Donnellan in 2008.<ref name=":0"/> He directed the 2012 film ''Bel Ami'', an adaption of the Maupassant novel.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1440732/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ql_1 | title=IMDb Bel Ami | work=information | publisher=IMDb | location=London | accessdate=25 October 2017 }}</ref>
Ormerod was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to theatre design.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61962|supp=y|page=B13|date=17 June 2017}}</ref>
==Stage productions==
===Cheek by Jowl===
*2016-17 ''The Winter's Tale'' ... William Shakespeare *2014 ''Measure for Measure'' ...William Shakespeare *2013 ''Ubu Roi'' ... Alfred Jarry *2011 ''Tis Pity She's a Whore'' ... John Ford (dramatist) *2009 ''Macbeth'' ... William Shakespeare *2008 ''Troilus and Cressida'' ... by William Shakespeare *2008 ''Boris Godunov'' ... by Aleksandr Pushkin *2007 ''Three Sisters'' ... by Anton Chekhov *2007 ''Cymbeline'' ... by William Shakespeare *2006 ''The Changeling'' ... by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley *2005 ''Great Expectations'' ... adapted from Charles Dickens *2004 ''Othello'' ... by William Shakespeare *2002 ''Homebody / Kabul'' ... by Tony Kushner ..... British premiere *1998 ''Much Ado About Nothing'' ... by William Shakespeare *1997 ''Out Cry'' ... by Tennessee Williams ..... British premiere *1995 ''The Duchess of Malfi'' ... by John Webster *1994 ''As You Like It'' (revival) ... by William Shakespeare *1994 ''Measure for Measure'' ... by William Shakespeare *1993 ''Don't Fool With Love'' ... by Alfred de Musset *1993 ''The Blind Men'' ... by Michel de Ghelderode ..... British premiere *1991 ''As You Like It'' ... by William Shakespeare *1990 ''Hamlet'' ... by William Shakespeare *1990 ''Sara'' ... by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ... British premiere *1989 ''Lady Betty'' ... by Declan Donnellan ..... British premiere *1988 ''The Tempest'' ... by William Shakespeare *1988 ''Philoctetes'' ... by Sophocles *1988 ''A Family Affair'' ... by Alexander Ostrovsky ..... British premiere *1987 ''Macbeth'' ... by William Shakespeare *1986 ''Twelfth Night'' ... by William Shakespeare *1985 ''The Man of Mode'' ... by George Etherege *1985 ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' ... by William Shakespeare *1985 ''Andromache'' ... by Jean Racine ..... British premiere *1984 ''Pericles'' ... by William Shakespeare *1983 ''Vanity Fair'' ... adapted by Donnellan from William Makepeace Thackeray ..... premiere *1982 ''Othello'' ... by William Shakespeare *1981 ''The Country Wife'' ... by William Wycherly
===Other=== *2014 ''Shakespeare in Love'', Noël Coward Theatre *2005 ''Great Expectations'', with the RSC a new adaptation by Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod *2002 ''King Lear'' with the RSC Academy Company *2000 ''Boris Godunov'' at the Moscow Art Theatre *1996 ''Martin Guerre'', West End *1993 ''Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'', Royal National Theatre *''The Winter's Tale'' for the Maly Theater of St Petersburg *''Falstaff'' at the Salzburg Festival
==Bibliography== *''Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America'', eds. Deborah R. Geis and Steven F. Kruger University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1997 ({{ISBN|0-472-09623-0}}) *Reade, Simon. ''Cheek by Jowl: Ten Years of Celebration'', Oberon Books (hardback) 1991 ({{ISBN|0-948230-47-9}}) -- currently out of print *''In Contact With the Gods?'', Directors Talk Theatre, eds. Maria M. Delgado & Paul Heritage, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1996 ({{ISBN|0-7190-4763-3}}) *National Theatre Platform Papers No. 2 on ''Angels in America'', National Theatre Publications Department
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==References== * {{cite web | title=Nick Ormerod Biography | url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsO/ormerod-nick.html | work=filmreference | year=2009 | accessdate=2009-10-11 | archive-date=19 March 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319003411/http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsO/ormerod-nick.html | url-status=dead }} * {{cite web|title=RSC Interview with Nick Ormerod |url=http://www.rsc.org.uk/content/3396.aspx |work=filmreference |year=2009 |accessdate=2009-10-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081121164609/http://www.rsc.org.uk/content/3396.aspx |archivedate=November 21, 2008 }}
==External links== *[http://www.cheekbyjowl.com/ Cheek by Jowl official website] *[http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk nationaltheatre.org.uk] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20031023135332/http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/awards officiallondontheatre.co.uk/awards]
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