Anna Fleischle
Born1971[1]
Munich[1]
EducationCentral Saint Martins[1]
Occupation(s)Set and costume design

Anna Fleischle is a theatre designer who has worked in theatre, dance and opera.

In 2007 Fleischle designed Love and Money at the new Maria, Young Vic, which was nominated for an Olivier Award for outstanding achievement in an affiliate theatre.[2][3][4]

She designed the world tour and National Theatre, DV8 production Can We Talk About This?,[5] which won the 2012 Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work[2] and was Tanz magazine's "production of the year".[6] She worked again with Lloyd Newson on DV8's next work, John, in 2015[7]

Fleischle designed productions of Michael Tippett's opera King Priam and Britten's operetta Paul Bunyan for the English Touring Opera, which together won the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera in 2014.[2][8]

Her 2015 design for Hangmen by Martin McDonagh, directed by Matthew Dunster won Best Design at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards,[9][10] Best Designer at the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards.[11] and the 2016 Olivier award for best set design.[12] The production went on to win in the theatre category at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards.[13][14] In December the same year she designed the set for Complicite's production of Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig at the Schaubühne in Berlin.[15][16]

In 2016, she designed[17] Matthew Perry's debut play The End of Longing.[18] In 2018 she continued her collaboration with McDonagh & Dunster, designing set and costumes for A Very Very Very Dark Matter at The Bridge.

In 2019 she was nominated for Best Set and Best Costume design at the Oliver Awards[19] for Home, I'm Darling at the National Theatre and Duke Of Yorks Theatre.

References

  1. ^ a b c Matt Trueman for The Stage. Feb 19, 2016 Anna Fleischle: ‘A good design can be one you don’t notice’
  2. ^ a b c Anna Fleischle. National Theatre. Accessed December 2015.
  3. ^ "Olivier Winners 2007 – Laurence Oliviers 2015". Olivierawards.com. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  4. ^ Charles Spencer (2006-11-23). "Vivid portrait of our times". Telegraph. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  5. ^ "Can We Talk About This? | National Theatre | South Bank, London". National Theatre. Archived from the original on 2014-12-10. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  6. ^ "Tänzer des Jahres 2012". Kultiversum.de. 2012-08-23. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  7. ^ "JOHN | National Theatre | South Bank, London". National Theatre. 2015-01-13. Archived from the original on 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  8. ^ "Olivier Winners 2014 – Laurence Oliviers 2015". Olivierawards.com. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  9. ^ Evening Standard Theatre Awards (2015-11-23). "Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2015: Who won and why | Theatre | Going Out | London Evening Standard". Standard.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  10. ^ Anna Fleischle (2015-12-04). "Let's talk about sets: Anna Fleischle on Hangmen". WhatsOnStage.com. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  11. ^ Mark Brown Arts correspondent. "Denise Gough wins top theatre award after almost quitting acting | Stage". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-02-04.
  12. ^ "Olivier Awards 2016: winners in full". May 18, 2016. Retrieved Sep 3, 2019 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  13. ^ Reporters, Telegraph (Jun 5, 2016). "Doctor Foster and Stormzy win at South Bank Sky Arts Awards, plus full list of winners". Retrieved Sep 3, 2019 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  14. ^ "Hangmen wins South Bank Sky Arts Award | WhatsOnStage". www.whatsonstage.com. Retrieved Sep 3, 2019.
  15. ^ "Beware of Pity". Schaubühne Berlin. Retrieved Sep 3, 2019.
  16. ^ "Complicite - Beware of Pity". www.complicite.org. Retrieved Sep 3, 2019.
  17. ^ "Lloyd Owen cast in The End of Longing alongside Matthew Perry". thestage.co.uk. The Stage. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  18. ^ "Perry Play Sets U.K. Cast". playbill.com. Playbill. 8 January 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  19. ^ "Nominations for the Olivier Awards 2019 with Mastercard | Official Website". Olivier Awards. Retrieved 2019-03-19.
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