Anna Fleischle is a theatre designer who has worked in theatre, dance and opera. In 2007 Fleischle designed ''Love and Money'' at the new Maria, Young Vic, which was nominated for an

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for outstanding achievement in an affiliate theatre. She designed the world tour and National Theatre, DV8 production ''Can We Talk About This?'', which won the 2012 Helpmann Award for Best Ballet or Dance Work and was ''Tanz'' magazine's "production of the year". She worked again with

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on DV8's next work, ''John'', in 2015 Fleischle designed productions of

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's opera ''

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'' and Britten's operetta ''Paul Bunyan'' for the

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, which together won the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera in 2014. Her 2015 design for '' Hangmen'' by

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, directed by

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won Best Design at the ''Evening Standard'' Theatre Awards, Best Designer at the

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. and the 2016 Olivier award for best set design. The production went on to win in the theatre category at the

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s. In December the same year she designed the set for Complicite's production of ''

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'' by

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at the

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in Berlin. In 2016, she designed

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's debut play '' The End of Longing''. In 2018 she continued her collaboration with McDonagh & Dunster, designing set and costumes for

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at The

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. In 2019 she was nominated for Best Set and Best Costume design at the Oliver Awards for Home, I'm Darling at the National Theatre and Duke Of Yorks Theatre.

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