Suttirat Anne Larlarb (born 1971)[1] is an American costume designer, art director and production designer.[2]
Life
editLarlarb's parents are both Thai, and came to the US as Fulbright scholars. Her father went on to become a heart surgeon.[3] Larlarb was born in North Carolina[4] and raised in Ventura County, California. She was interested in drawing from an early age, and attended Stanford University where she studied studio art, before winning a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and entering Yale University's School of Drama MFA program, where she studied under Ming Cho Lee.[2][4]
Larlarb moved to London after graduating, and worked as Assistant Designer, responsible for sets and costumes, to theatrical designer Richard Hudson.[2] 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 Trance), theatrical productions (Frankenstein), and for the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London.
Larlarb was Designer of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, together with Mark Tildesley. She also designed the costumes and the 'dove bikes'.[5] 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."[6] 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 [were] her proudest achievement."[7]
Selected stage work
edit- Assistant Designer, responsible for sets and costumes, to theatrical designer Richard Hudson on several operas:
- Khovanshchina at the Opéra Bastille in Paris
- Tamerlano at the Maggio Musicale in Florence
- Ernani at the Vienna State Opera[4]
- Costume Designer, Frankenstein at the National Theatre, London[8]
- 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 Lincoln Center, New York[4]
- Larlarb was the Costume Designer for Anna Shapiro's Broadway revival of Of Mice and Men in 2014.[9]
- Costume Designer, Waitress at the American Repertory Theater, Cambridge[10] and Broadway.[11]
- Costume designer for the 2022 Macbeth revival directed by Sam Gold at the Longacre Theatre[12]
Filmography
edit| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Shelf Life (short film) | Art Director | |
| 1998 | Back to Even | Art Director | (as Anne Larlarb) |
| 2000 | The Beach | Art Department Assistant | (as Suttirat 'Anne' Larlarb) |
| 2001 | Enigma | Assistant Art Director | (as Suttirat Larlarb) |
| 2001 | Serendipity | Art Director (re-shoots) | |
| 2001 | K-PAX | Art Director (New York) | (as Suttirat Larlarb) |
| 2002 | Gunplay (short film) | Production Designer | |
| 2002 | Men in Black II | Assistant Art Director (New York) | (as Suttirat Larlarb) |
| 2003 | Ash Tuesday | Production Designer | |
| 2003 | A Foreign Affair (released on DVD as Two Brothers and a Bride) | Production Designer (Mexico) | |
| 2004 | Alfie | Art Director (New York) | |
| 2004 | Garfield: The Movie | Art Director | (as Suttirat Larlarb) |
| 2005 | The Skeleton Key | Art Director (New Orleans) | |
| 2006 | The Namesake | Art Director | (as Suttirat Larlarb) |
| 2007 | The Savages | Art Director | (as Suttirat Larlarb) |
| 2007 | Sunshine | Costume Designer | |
| 2008 | My Sassy Girl | Art Director | |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Costume Designer | Costume Designers Guild Award for Excellence in Contemporary Film[13] |
| 2010 | 127 Hours | Production Designer Costume Designer |
(as Suttirat Larlarb). Nominated—Art Directors Guild Award for Excellence in Production Design for a Contemporary Film |
| 2010 | The American | Costume Designer | |
| 2010 | The Extra Man | Costume Designer | |
| 2010 | Peacock | Costume Designer | |
| 2011 | Beastly | Costume Designer | (as Suttirat Larlarb) |
| 2011 | Cinema Verite | Costume Designer | Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special |
| 2013 | Trance | Costume Designer | |
| 2015 | Steve Jobs | Costume Designer | |
| 2021 | No Time to Die | Costume Designer | |
| 2022 | Obi-Wan Kenobi | Costume Designer |
References
edit- ^ "Road to 2012: Year 2 Changing Pace: Suttirat Anne Larlarb b.1971 by Emma Hardy". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
- ^ a b c Van Gilder Cooke, Sonia (March–April 2011). "Worlds of Her Making". Stanford Magazine. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ^ Hanel, Marnie (11 February 2011). "From Sketch to Still, a Visual History of 127 Hours' Set Design". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
- ^ a b c d Macauley, Scott (17 August 2010). "Dressing George Clooney: Costume Designer Suttirat Anne Larlarb on The American". Focus Features. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ^ Hoggard, Liz (30 July 2012). "Team DB: the people who helped create Danny Boyle's extraordinary vision". Evening Standard. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ^ Lynskey, Dorian (January 2013) [November 2012], "Oblivion with Bells", Q, vol. 318, pp. 82–88
- ^ "London's 1000 most influential people 2012: Creatives, Theatre". Evening Standard. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
- ^ Bennett, Ray (24 February 2011). "Frankenstein: Theater Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 7 December 2012.
- ^ "'Of Mice and Men' Broadway" playbillvault.com, accessed February 14, 2016
- ^ "Waitress A.R.T. Season Credits". americanrepertorytheater.org. American Repertory Theater. Retrieved 3 April 2016.
- ^ "Broadway-Bound Musical Waitress Is Going to Make Some History". playbill.com. Playbill. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ^ "Macbeth". Broadway.com. Retrieved 2022-06-19.
- ^ ""Slumdog" tops costume designer nods". Reuters. 18 February 2009. Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
External links
edit- Suttirat Anne Larlarb at IMDb
- 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