She May Just Be The World’s Foremost Stage Designer

She works on everything from West End plays and musicals to opera at the Met and Covent Garden to rock stars’ arena tours to the openingceremony of the Rio Olympics. Says one director, “[She] doesn’t design plays. Or, at least, she doesn’t design the locations in which they’re set. Instead, she designs the ideas, the thought structures, the systems in which the characters operate.”