Nicky Gillibrand is a theatrical costume designer who was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Costume Design for Billy Elliot the Musical.
She won the Gold Medal for Costume Design at the 2003 Prague Quadrenale for the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream Gillibrand has worked on many international productions with such companies as the Royal Opera House, the Young Vic Theatre, and the Royal National Theatre in London, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and the Paris Opera.
[1] She also designed the costumes for the 2003 revival of Tom Stoppard's Jumpers for the West End and Broadway and İnstitute Benjamenta.
One of her sources was a photographer who spent a year documenting a miner's strike in Durham.
She welcomed the opportunity to design for chorus members who were not typical characters in musicals, and liked working with the vibrant colors of the era.