Suttirat Anne Larlarb (born 1971) is an American costume designer, art director and production designer.

Life

Larlarb's parents are both Thai, and came to the US as Fulbright scholars. Her father went on to become a heart surgeon. Larlarb was born in

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and raised in Ventura County, California. She was interested in drawing from an early age, and attended

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where she studied studio art, before winning a

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and entering

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's School of Drama MFA program, where she studied under

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. Larlarb moved to London after graduating, and worked as Assistant Designer, responsible for sets and costumes, to theatrical designer Richard Hudson. The first major film on which she worked was Danny Boyle's '' The Beach''; Larlarb has worked many times with Boyle since, both in film productions ('' Sunshine'', '' Slumdog Millionaire'', '' 127 Hours'' and ''

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''), theatrical productions (''

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''), and for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in

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. Larlarb was Designer of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, together with Mark Tildesley. She also designed the costumes and the 'dove bikes'. She spoke of the creative brainstorming process in developing the ceremony between Boyle, Tildesley and writer Frank Cottrell Boyce: "It was so open. It could be anything. We were bouncing around every idea that came into your head about what was essentially British. Not being British, I could represent what the world thought Britain meant. Our mantra was that everything should feel human-scale: individual and idiosyncratic, less about slickness and perfection." For her work on the ceremony, Larlarb was listed as one of "London's 1000 most influential people 2012" by the ''London Evening Standard'', which commented that "the extraordinary dove bikes ereher proudest achievement."

Selected stage work

* Assistant Designer, responsible for sets and costumes, to theatrical designer Richard Hudson on several operas: ** ''

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'' at the Opéra Bastille in Paris ** '' Tamerlano'' at the Maggio Musicale in Florence ** ''

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'' at the Vienna State Opera * Costume Designer, ''

'' at the National Theatre, London * Larlarb's stage design work was also included in the exhibition "Curtain Call: Celebrating A Century of Women Designing for Live Performance" at the New York Public Library of Performing Arts at the

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, New York * Larlarb was the Costume Designer for Anna Shapiro's Broadway revival of '' Of Mice and Men'' in 2014. * Costume Designer, '' Waitress'' at the American Repertory Theater, Cambridge and Broadway. * Costume designer for the 2022

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revival directed by

Sam Gold Sam Gold is an American theater director and actor. He has directed both musicals and plays, on Broadway and Off-Broadway. He won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for ''Fun Home''. Early life Gold was raised in Westchester and ...

at the

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Filmography

References

External links

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National Portrait Gallery video interview with Larlarb and Mark Tildesley about the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony

MSNBC video interview with Larlarb about the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony

Larlarb's resumé at her agents

TIME interview with Larlarb about the Olympics opening ceremony
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