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Es Devlin

Es Devlin is an artist and designer.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: Dear England (2025, 2023 and at Prince Edward), CoriolanusThe Motive and the Cue (also Noël Coward), The Lehman Trilogy (also West End, Broadway and on tour), The Crucible, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire and Ugly Lies the Bone

Other theatre includes: Hamlet for the RSC; and Carmen on Lake Constance at Bregenz

Art installations

Face to Face for Somerset House, Congregation for The Courtauld with UNHCR, Surfacing for Art Basel with Sharon Eyal, Come Home Again (outside Tate Modern), Forest of Us at Superblue Miami, Singing Tree for the V&A, Poemportraits for the Serpentine Gallery, Your Voices at the Lincoln Centre and I Saw the World End for Imperial War Museum

Concert designs

Renaissance and Formation for Beyoncé, Mayhem for Lady Gaga, U2 at the Sphere, The Weeknd, 2022 Super Bowl Half Time Show with Dr Dre and Kendrick Lamar, and Olympic Ceremonies in London and Rio

Other projects

UK Pavilion at the World Expo (as the first female designer)

a retrospective exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York

An Atlas of Es Devlin (award-winning monograph)

Abstract: The Art of Design (a documentary)

Awards

three Olivier Awards

one Tony Award

Ivor Novello Award

Commander of the Order of the British Empire

 

Es Devlin is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University.

 

(Updated March 2025)