Kimie Nakano

Set & Costume Designer

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Biography

Kimie is a set and costume designer working across multiple disciplines.

In 2023 she won the Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for My Neighbour Totoro for the RSC at the Barbican.

Credits

In Development

Production Company Notes
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
2026 		Longborough Festival Opera

Set and Costume Designer
Dir. Carmen Jakobi
MACBETH
2026 		Longborough Festival Opera

Set Designer
Dir. Karolina Sofulak

Theatre

Production Company Notes
PROPER CONDUCT
2026 		English National Ballet

Set and Costume Designer
Choreo. Kameron N. Saunders
Part of ‘Body & Soul’
MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO
2025 		Gillian Lynne Theatre

Costume Designer
Dir. Phelim McDermott
West End transfer
YOUR LIE IN APRIL
2024 		Harold Pinter Theatre / Theatre Royal Drury Lane / Carter Dixon McGill

Costume Designer
Dir. Nick Winston
MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO
2023 		Royal Shakespeare Company (Barbican Theatre) / Joe Hisaishi

Revival of sell-out 2022 production
DEATH NOTE: THE MUSICAL
2023 		London Palladium / Lyric Theatre

Costume Designer
Dir. Nick Winston
MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO
2022 		Royal Shakespeare Company (Barbican Theatre) / Joe Hisaishi

Costume Designer
Dir. Phelim McDermott
Olivier Award for Best Costume Design
DUST
2022 		Akram Khan Company / Finnish National Opera and Ballet

Costume Designer
Revival
Choregrapher – Akram Khan
VERTICAL ROAD
2010 – 2022 		Curve; NSCD / The Riley Theatre; National School of Dance Athens; Royal Danish Theatre; VERVE / National School of Contemporary Dance

Costume designer
Choreographer – Akram Khan
FALL
2015 – 2022 		Ballet Vlaaderen / Opera Ghent; National Ballet of Portugal; Grand Theatre, Geneva

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
DUST
2022 		Theater Dortmund

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Akram Khan.
Part of ‘New London Moves’.
ROUGH GIRLS
2021 		Lyric Theatre, Belfast

Costume Designer
Dir. Kimberley Sykes
KAASH
2014 – 2021 		MC2 Grenoble; Ballet Vlaaderen / Opera Ghent; Institut del Theatre de Barcelona; Stuttgart Ballet / Stuttgart Opera House; Introdans; Stanislavsky Ballet / Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Akram Khan
QUTB
2019 		Introdans

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
THE LADY FROM THE SEA
2019 		Kilden Theatre, Fjæreheia

Costume Designer
Dir. Birgit Amlalie Nillsen
OUTWITTING THE DEVIL
2019 		Stuttgart Ballet / Avignon Festival

Costume Designer
Choreography – Akram Khan
BOY BREAKING GLASS
2018 		Sadler's Wells

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Alesandra Seutin.
For the 20th Anniversary of Sadler’s Wells
ALFHILD AGRELLS ARV
2018 		Norrdans / Härnösands Theatre

Costume Designer
Choreographers – José Agudo, Mari Carraco and Peter Svenzon
MIXED PROGRAMME (BALLET)
2018 		Northern Ballet / Leeds Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre

Set and Costume Designer
‘The Shape of Sound’ Choreographer – Kenneth Tindall
‘Kingdom of Back’ Choreographer – Morgann Runacre-Temple
‘Manela…’ Choreographer – Mlindi Kulashe
THE 3 DANCERS
2015 – 2018 		Ballet Rambert / Theatre Royal Plymouth; Introdans / State Theatre, Arnhem

Set and Costume Designer
Choreographer – Didy Veldman
XENOS
2018 		Onassis Cultural Centre Athens

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Akram Khan
SILK ROAD
2017 		Lilian Baylis Studio / Sadler's Wells

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Jose Augo
THE LITTLE MERMAID
2017 		Northern Ballet

Set Designer
Choreographer – David Nixon OBE
360°
2016 		Luzerner Theater

Set and Costume Designer
Choreographer – Didy Veldman
M-DAO
2016 		English National Ballet / Sadler's Wells

Set and Costume Designer
Choreographer – Yabin Wang
INTER_RUPTED
2016 		National Centre for the Performing Arts, Mumbai

Costume Designer
Choreographer- Aditi Mangaldas
QUTB
2016 		Sadler's Wells

Costume Design
Choreographer – Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
A THOUSAND SHEPHERDS
2016 		Cape Dance Company / Artscape, Cape Town

Costume Designer
Choreographer – José Agudo
TECHNE
2015 		Sadler’s Wells

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Akram Khan
MOON OPERA
2015 		Yabin Dance

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Yabin Wang
SHADOW OF MEMORY KWIBUKA
2014 		Stade Amahoro

Costume Designer
Commemoration ceremony for the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda genocide
TOROBAKA
2014 		MC2 Grenoble

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Akram Khan
DUST
2014 		English National Ballet / Barbican

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Akram Khan
THE RASHOMON EFFECT / VERTICAL ROAD
2014 		National Youth dance Company / Sadler’s Wells

Set and Costume Designer
Choreographer – Akram Khan
TOKAIDO ROAD
2014 		Milton Court Studio

Set and Costume Designer
Dir. Caroline Clegg
iTMOi
2013 		MC2 Grenoble

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Akram Khan
A THOUSAND SHEPHERDS
2013 		ACE, Birmingham

Costume Designer
Choreographer – José Agudo
WITHIN
2013 		Kamani Auditorium, Delhi

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Aditi Mangaldas
THE LITTLE PRINCE
2012 		Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal / Place des Arts Montréal

Set and Costume Designer
Choreographer – Didy Veldman
CARLOS ACOSTA: PREMIERES PLUS
2011 		Coliseum

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Will Tuckett
GNOSIS
2011 		Khan Chaudhry Productions

Costume Design
Choreographer – Akram Khan
LA NUIT DU TRAIN DE LA VOIE LACTEE
2011 		Theatre de Sartouville et des Yvelines

Set and Costume Designer
Dir. Oriza Hirata
THE MUSTARD SEED
2010 		Rambert Dance Company / ROH Linbury Theatre

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Miguel Altunaga
MURAL STUDIES
2010 		Rich Mix

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Dam Van Huynh
NOW IS
2010 		Delhi

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Aditi Mangaldas
TIMELESS
2010 		Delhi

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Aditi Mangaldas

Opera

Production Company Notes
TURANDOT
2022 		Grand Theatre, Geneva/Tokyo Bunka Kaikan

Costume Designer
Dir. Daniel Kramer
THE RETURN OF ULYSSES
2018 		Royal Opera House / Roundhouse

Costume Designer
Dir. John Fulljames
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
2015 – 2017 		Longborough Festival Opera

Set and Costume Designer
Dir. Carmen Jakobi
CARMEN
2014 		Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet

Set and Costume Designer
Choreographer – Didy Veldman

Film

Production Company Notes
MACBETH
2018

Costume Designer
Dir. Kit Monkman
XEN
2018 		Illumination / Sadler's Wells

Costume Designer
Choreographer – Akram Khan
Kimie Nakano
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