Quick Facts
Biography
Bunny Christie OBE (born 1962) is a Scottish theatre set designer.
Career
She was born in St Andrews, educated at Madras College and at the Central School of Art in London. She has won three Olivier Awards and also worked on Kenneth Branagh's Oscar-nominated short film Swan Song.
Christie designed the sets and costumes for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play), which was initially produced at the Royal National Theatre in 2012, and also was performed on Broadway in 2014.
In 2014, Christie designed the set for the new musical Made in Dagenham. She designed the set for People, Places & Things which ran at the Royal National Theatre in 2015 and Off-Broadway at St. Ann's Warehouse in 2017.
In 2018, she designed the set for Marianne Elliot’s gender bending revival of the musical Company. The musical opened in the West End in 2018.
In 2018 she received an OBE for her services to British theatre.
David Jays, writing in The Guardian, described her style: "Bunny Christie doesn’t design stage sets. She creates worlds. Audaciously theatrical and frequently startling, her creations pull spectators headlong into the universe of a play – whether through the disorienting aperture of The Red Barn or the vintage newsroom pile-up in Ink. Christie often places us inside a protagonist’s head – she designs psychology as well as space, most notably for the singular hero of The Curious Incident, which won her one of her three Olivier awards."
Awards and nominations
- Olivier Award Best Set Design for A Streetcar Named Desire (2003) - winner
- Olivier Award Best Set Design for The White Guard (2011) - winner
- Olivier Award Best Set Design for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (with Finn Ross) (2013) - winner
- Olivier Award for Best Set Design for Made In Dagenham (2015) - nomination
- Olivier Award for Best Set Design for Company (2019) - nomination
- Evening Standard Theatre Award for Baby Doll (2000) - winner
- Tony Award for Best Scenic Design in a Play for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (with Finn Ross) (2015) - winner
- Evening Standard Theatre Award Best Set Design (2017) - nomination and Olivier Award Best Set design (2018) - nomination for Ink
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design of a Play for People, Places & Things (2018) - nomination
- Olivier Award Best Set Design for Company (2019) - winner