BIOGRAPHY

Paul Wills

This is a headshot of Paul Wills looking directly into the camera.

Paul Wills is a critically acclaimed International Stage and Costume Designer.  

Previous work at Shakespeare’s Globe includes: The Comedy of Errors, The Tempest, The Four Seasons, Richard II, Dr Faustus, The Lightning Child, and The Frontline.

Recent designs include: Shirley Valentine, King Lear, Frozen, American Buffalo, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Di and Viv and Rose, Mrs Henderson Presents, Admissions (West End); King Lear, Fortune (Metropolitan Theatre, Tokyo); Rent! (Theater St Gallen); School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Blasted, Saved, Punk Rock (Lyric Hammersmith); Off Menu Podcast Live with Ed Gamble and James Acaster (UK Tour); Farewell Mister Haffmann, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Ustinov Studio Bath); Fun Home, The Steward of Christendom, The Snapper, Juno, The Paycock (Gate Theatre, Dublin); The Clinic (Almeida Theatre); The Taxidermist’s Daughter, King Lear, First Light (Chichester Festival Theatre); A Christmas Carol – A Ghost Story (Nottingham Playhouse, Alexandra Palace); Hamlet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (RSC); Anna Christie, Making Noise Quietly, The Man Who Had All the Luck, The Cut (Donmar Warehouse); Routes, The Acid Test, Breathing Corpses (Royal Court); Our Few and Evil Days, Drumbelly, Bastard Amber (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); A Human Being Died That Night, Howie the Rookie (BAM, New York); Measure for Measure (Theatre for a New Audience, NYC); My Fair Lady, Afterplay, Sisters (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield); Finding Neverland, Buried Child, Barnum (Curve Theatre, Leicester); Orpheus Descending, 1984, Macbeth (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); An Enemy of the People (Theatre Cocoon, Tokyo); King Kong, Shakespeare in Love, Kinky Boots (The Fugard Theatre, Cape Town).

Paul is Costume Designer for Les Misérables.