About

Chloe Lamford works across theatre, opera, live performance and installation — anywhere that space, time and atmosphere can be shaped into something feeling and dynamic. Her practice is rooted in the belief that environments are always emotional spaces: that a room, a stage or a runway is always created in response to the people within it. She is interested in the moment a space shifts — when a wall opens, a building revolves, a room becomes something else entirely — and in the drama that lives in that transformation.

Her work is international and cross-disciplinary. She has designed for the National Theatre, The Royal Opera House, on Broadway, Comédie Française, Schaubühne Berlin, International Theatre Amsterdam, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Zurich Opera, the Royal Danish Opera and Hermès. In 2026 she won the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Best Scenic Design for Death of a Salesman on Broadway.

She is a graduate of Wimbledon School of Art, a former Associate Designer of the Royal Court Theatre (2014 to 2021), and was a founder resident of Somerset House Studios.

Recognition

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design of a Play — Death of a Salesman, Broadway, the 2026 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play — Death of a Salesman, Best Design at the UK Theatre Awards - Small Miracle, Arts Foundation Fellowship for Design for Performance, 2013

Events + Experiences

Maison 166 celebration — Hermès, London, 2026 (with Studio Boum); Alizé - A permanent show in Berlin with Cirque du Soleil; TBC TV — installation with Mel Brimfield and Ewan Jones Morris, Somerset House; Show Room — installation at Somerset House, a Great Arch Hall commission; Echo Chamber — installation, Royal College of Art; Absence and Hope — collaboration with Rachel Mars, Tate Modern; Wish You Were Here! — Somerset House Studios; The Gulch — Bedwyr Williams, The Curve, Barbican.

Theatre

Chloe co-directed and designed The Antipodes with Annie Baker for the National Theatre. Other productions for the National Theatre include Phaedra, Othello, Amadeus, John, The Estate, Rules for Living and The World of Extreme Happiness.

Death of a Salesman (Broadway); Hilary and Clinton (Broadway); Teeth N Smiles (West End); Mrs Warren's Profession (West End); Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (West End); Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, Romeo and Juliet, The Duchess of Malfi (Almeida Theatre); 1984 (Broadway, West End, Headlong/Almeida); Next To Normal, Europe, Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse); De Architect, Julie, De Maiden (International Theatre Amsterdam); Atmen, Ophelias Zimmer, Shakespeare's Last Play (Schaubühne Berlin); Hexenjagd (Theater Basel); Het Hamiltoncomplex; Wild Rose (Lyceum Edinburgh); An American Clock (Old Vic); Britney or Goofy, Truth or Dare, Jesus Christ or Superstar (Hetpaleis Antwerp / LIFT Festival); Jubilee, The Gatekeeper, Cannibals (Manchester Royal Exchange); National Theatre Scotland; National Theatre Wales; Young Vic; Soho Theatre.

As Associate Designer of the Royal Court Theatre (2014–2021) she created The Site — a temporary theatre and installation space — and designed The Cane, Pity, Gun Dog, Victory Condition, B, The Twits, Road, Is God Is and many others.

Opera + Music

Innocence — directed by Simon Stone (Aix-en-Provence Festival, Met Opera, ROH, Finnish National Opera; Theodora; Rusalka — Royal Opera House; Orfeo — Zurich Opera House; The Handmaid's Tale — Royal Danish Opera; La Bohème — English National Opera; Ariadne auf Naxos, Alcina, Pelléas et Mélisande — Aix-en-Provence Festival; Miranda — Opéra Comique, Paris; The Song Project — Royal Court Theatre; Deep England - Gazelle Twin x NYX Choir; Mens — visual direction for Wende Snijders concert tour.