Peter Butler is a designer for performance, specialising in set and costume design for theatre, devised theatre making and site-specific work.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: Mnemonic (2024), a co-production with Complicité and Shut Up, I’m Dreaming

In London’s West End: Cabaret: Prologue at the KitKat Club, Playhouse Theatre (as associate set designer)

Other theatre includes: A Taste of Honey at the Royal Exchange, Manchester; Boy Parts at Soho Theatre; Short Big Show for Hope at Somerset House; The Shape of Things for Park 200; Attempts on Her Life at Guildhall School of Music & Drama; Anthem & Horizon at the Bush; The Beat of Our Hearts at Exeter Northcott; Patient Light on UK tour

Awards

The Shape of Things – 2023 Stage Debut Award nomination for Best Design

Peter Butler was a winner of the 2021 Linbury Prize for Stage Design. He is also a visiting practitioner at Central Saint Martins and The University of the Arts London, where he leads workshops and teaches on the BA Performance Design & Practice course.

(Published June 2024.)