Gabriella Slade is a Tony Award winning and Olivier Award nominated costume designer working in the UK and internationally.
Current projects include: SIX (Broadway, West End, Australia, US Tour, UK + World Tour, Japan, Toronto, South Korea & NCL); Starlight Express (London 2024); A Knights Tale (Manchester Opera House 2025); Here and Now (UK + Ireland Tour 2025).
Costume credits include: Here and Now (Birmingham Alexandra); Cher Show (UK + Ireland Tour); Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Disney - UK Tour); Curtains (West End + UK Tour); Spice Girls: Spice World (Arena Tour 2019); Reveller’s Mass; The Green House; Folk (National Dance Company Wales); The Importance of Being Earnest (Vaudeville Theatre); The Last Days of Anne Boleyn (Tower of London); Working (Southwark Playhouse); In The Heights (Kings Cross Theatre + Southwark Playhouse) - Winner of 3 Olivier Awards + Whatsonstage Award Nomination for Best Off West-End Production 2015 + Best Musical 2016 ); Peter And The Starcatcher (Royal and Derngate); The Last Five Years (St James’ Theatre); The Last Mermaid (Wales Millennium Centre); A Christmas Carol; The Adventures of Pinocchio; The Hundred and One Dalmatians (Castle Theatre).
Set and Costume credits include: Murder For Two (Watermill Theatre, The Other Palace + UK Tour); Billionaire Boy (Nuffield Theatre + UK Tour) - Winner UK Theatre Award for Best Production for Children and Young People 2019; Moll Flanders (Mercury Theatre); Showstopper! (Costume + Props: The Other Palace, The Apollo + The Lyric) - Olivier Award for Best Entertainment and Family, 2016; Spring Awakening (Hope Mill Theatre) - Whatsonstage Award Best Regional Production 2019; A Spoonful of Sherman (UK Tour); The Importance of Being Earnest (UK Tour); Cinderella (Citizens Theatre); Loot (Watermill Theatre + Park Theatre); Bodies (Royal Court); The Iris Murder (Traverse Theatre + Scottish Tour); Kommilitonen! (Welsh National Opera) - Wales Theatre Award for Best Opera Production 2017; Stig of the Dump (UK Tour); Henry VI; Richard III (Wales Millennium Centre); Love Birds; Happy New After (Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival); Romeo And Juliet; Caucasian Chalk Circle; How Do You Eat An Elephant? (National Youth Theatre Wales); Dead Born Grow (Frantic Assembly & National Youth Theatre Wales).
Gabriella won the Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle + Drama Desk award for Best Costume Design of a musical for the Broadway production of SIX, 2022. She received an Off-West End Award for Best Costume Design 2019 plus an Olivier Award nomination for Best Costume Design 2019). Gabriella won the Whatsonstage award for Best Costume Design for The Cher Show, 2023. She also received nominations for Starlight Express (2025), Bedknobs and Broomsticks (2022) + SIX (2019). In 2015 Gabriella received an Off-West End Award nomination for Best Costume design for In The Heights.
Gabriella studied Theatre Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
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The Soho Agency
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