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11 Facts About Bob Crowley

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Bob Crowley was born on 10 June 1952 and is a theatre designer, and theatre director.

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Bob Crowley trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

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Bob Crowley has designed over 20 productions for the National Theatre including Ghetto, The Madness of George III, Carousel and The History Boys.

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Bob Crowley has designed numerous productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company including The Plantagenets, for which he won an Olivier award, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses, which later had a successful run in London, followed by a transfer to Broadway.

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Bob Crowley has received multiple Tony Award nominations, and has won seven times, for designing the Broadway productions of Carousel, Aida, The History Boys, Mary Poppins, The Coast of Utopia, Once and An American in Paris.

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Bob Crowley received three other Tony Award nominations in 2015, two for his costumes on The Audience and An American in Paris and one for his scenic designs for Skylight.

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Bob Crowley is a two-time recipient of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Set Design and a three-time recipient of the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Set Design.

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Bob Crowley designed set and costume for Mary Poppins, which played in both the West End and on Broadway.

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Bob Crowley designed and directed the Phil Collins musical Tarzan.

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Bob Crowley is the set and costume designer for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies, and the costume designer of the 2012 European version of The Little Mermaid.

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Bob Crowley was the set and costumes designer of the 2022 ballet Like Water for Chocolate.