Alison Chitty was born in Great Britain on 16/10/1948. She studied at St Martin’s School of Art and Central School of Art and Design. She initially worked for seven years at the Victoria Theatre, creating sets and costumes for over forty productions. Since 1979, she collaborated with a number of London theaters, including the Hampstead Theatre, Riverside Studios, Royal Shakespeare Company and the West End. She was resident designer at the National Theatre in London for eight years, working regularly with directors Sir Peter Hall and Mike Lee. She has also been production designer for Mike Lee in three films. She collaborated with numerous operas around the world, such as: the Royal Opera House in London (Covent Garden), English National Opera, Opera Holland Park (London), Opera North, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, Staatsoper Berlin, Staatsoper Munich, Opéra National de Paris, Teatro La Fenice Venice and the opera houses of Dallas, Seattle, Santa Fe and Geneva. She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award (2001), the London Critics Circle Theatre Award (1984), the award of the Order of the British Empire (2004), the Theatre Design Award (2004) and the Young Vic Award (2008). She was made a Royal Designer for Industry (2009) by the Royal Society of Arts. She received an Honorary Fellowship from the University of the Arts London in 2013. For the GNO, Chitty designed the costumes and set for the opera Carmen, presented at Odeon of Herodes Atticus (2006-07).