Alison Chitty

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Alison Chitty {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE|RDI}} (born 16 October 1948){{cite news

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}} is an Olivier Award winning production designer and set and costume designer, known for her collaborations with Mike Leigh, Francesca Zambello, Peter Gill and Sir Peter Hall. She is also the Director of the Motley Theatre Design Course, a successor to Motley Theatre Design Group. Both organisations included Margaret Harris as one of their founders.[http://www.motleytheatredesign.co.uk/ Motley Design group] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060203233714/http://www.motleytheatredesign.co.uk/ |date=2006-02-03 }} . Retrieved on 7 January 2011.

She studied at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design,[http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/sound/ohist/ohnls/nlstheatre/theatre.html National Life Stories: An Oral History of British Theatre Design: Sound Archive catalogue reference number: C1173]. British Library. Accessed September 2013. and subsequently was resident at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent. She was resident designer at the Royal National Theatre for eight years,[https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2009/jul/14/theatre-masterclass-alison-chitty Theatre masterclass: Alison Chitty]. Retrieved on 7 January 2011. and has also designed for English National Opera, Royal Opera House, Santa Fe Opera and many other theatres internationally.

For Mike Leigh she was production designer on Life is Sweet, Naked and Secrets and Lies.