Tom Scutt

Tom Scutt (born 1983) is an English theatre set and costume designer. Scutt's work has appeared across the West End and Broadway. He has regularly collaborated with directors Rupert Goold and Rebecca Frecknall, and has worked with musicians Sam Smith and Pet Shop Boys in the past.

For his work on the 2021 West End revival of Cabaret at the Playhouse Theatre, Scutt received the Critics' Circle Theatre Award for Best Designer, which he also won for his work on A Very Expensive Poison and Into the Woods. When the same production of Cabaret transferred to Broadway in 2024, Scutt won the Tony Award for Best Scenic Design in a Musical. Scutt has received six Olivier Award nominations, including one win for Best Set Design for Fiddler on the Roof at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre.

Family and education Scutt was born in Epsom in Surrey, England in 1983. He attended The Chase School in Malvern, Worcestershire. Scutt graduated from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2006, with a first-class degree in theatre design. Jesus Christ Superstar, Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof and Into the Woods, where his set design was described as "exquisitely conceived". For Cabaret, at both the Playhouse Theatre and the August Wilson Theatre, Scutt's immersive set design included a special side entrance for the audience to enter through, symbolising the "descent into the cabaret". He also designed the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards ceremony.

he is set to design the London revival of Sunday in the Park with George, scheduled to run at the Barbican Centre in the summer of 2027.

Recognition Scutt has received the Jocelyn Herbert Award for Stage Design and the Linbury Prize for Stage Design, which he went on to judge eight years later. Scutt has also been appointed as an associate artist of the Donmar Warehouse.

Accolades Award / Organisation Year Category Nominated work(s) Result Critics' Circle Theatre Awards 2019 Best Designer A Very Expensive Poison Laurence Olivier Awards 2022 Best Set Design Cabaret Best Costume Design 2025 Best Set Design Fiddler on the Roof Best Costume Design Outer Critics Circle Awards 2016 Outstanding Costume Design King Charles III Tony Awards 2016 Best Costume Design in a Play King Charles III 2024 Best Costume Design in a MusicalCabaret 2019 Best Set Design Little Shop of Horrors Best Costume Design

Personal life Scutt lived in East London. He identifies as queer.