Mark Thompson read drama and theatre at Birmingham University. Theatre includes: recently, Henry IV Parts I & II, The Alchemist, Once in a Lifetime and The Rose Tattoo (NT), Funny Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre), The God of Carnage (Gielgud) and And Then There Were None (Gielgud). For the Royal Court: Wild East, The Woman Before and Piano/Forte. Also, Bombay Dreams (Apollo Victoria and Broadway), Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van starring Maggie Smith (Queen's), Blast! (Apollo, Hammersmith, Broadway and USA tour), Uncle Vanya and Twelfth Night (costumes only, Donmar Warehouse), Follies (set only, Broadway), Mouth to Mouth (Royal Court and Albery), Life x 3 (NT and Old Vic), Mamma Mia! (Prince of Wales, Toronto, Broadway, Las Vegas, Japan, Holland, Germany, Spain, Sweden and USA, Australasian and international tours), Doctor Dolittle (Apollo, Hammersmith, and tour), The Blue Room (Donmar Warehouse and Broadway), The Front Page (Donmar Warehouse) Never Land (Royal Court), Art (Wyndham's and Whitehall, UK tour, Australia, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Los Angeles and Broadway), Insignifi cance and Company (Donmar Warehouse and Albery), The Kitchen (Royal Court), Hysteria (Royal Court and Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles), Six Degrees of Separation (Royal Court and Comedy), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (London Palladium, Canadian, Australian and USA tours), Shadowlands (Queen's and Broadway),

A Little Night Music (Piccadilly), Ivanov and Much Ado About Nothing (Strand), The Sneeze (Aldwych), Cabaret (Strand) and The Scarlet Pimpernel (Chichester Festival Theatre and Her Majesty's). For the RSC: Measure for Measure, The Wizard of Oz, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, Hamlet and The Unexpected Man (also Off- Broadway and Los Angeles). For the Almeida: Volpone, Betrayal, Party Time and Butterfl y Kiss. For the NT: The Wind in the Willows, The Madness of George III, Arcadia (Haymarket and Lincoln Center Theater, New York), Pericles, What the Butler Saw, The Day I Stood Still and The Duchess of Malfi . Awards: 1995 Critics' Circle Award for The Kitchen; 1994 Olivier Award for Set Design for Hysteria; 1992 Olivier Awards for Set Design and Costume Design for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and The Comedy of Errors; 1990-91 Olivier Award, 1991 Plays and Players' Award and 1991 Critics' Circle Award for The Wind in the Willows.

Ballet includes: Don Quixote (Royal Ballet, Covent Garden). Opera includes: Macbeth (Metropolitan Opera, New York), Falstaff (Scottish Opera), Peter Grimes (Opera North), Ariadne auf Naxos (Salzburg), Il Viaggio a Reims (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), Hansel and Gretel (Sydney Opera House), The Two Widows (English National Opera), Queen of Spades (Metropolitan, New York) and costume design for Montag aus Licht (La Scala, Milan).

Film includes: costumes for The Madness of King George.