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NATIONAL THEATRE PRODUCTION DESIGN ASSISTANT 

1 year's full time residency at the National Theatre's Max Rayne Design Studio, 2018-2019. Designers assisted include: Hildegard Bechtler, Bunny Christie, Fly Davis, Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey, Rachel Hauk, Natasha Jenkins, Rob Jones, Katrina Lindsay, Ian McNeil, Vicki Mortimer, Ralph Myers, Lucy Sierra, Rajha Shakiry, ULTZ, Samuel Wyer

 AWARDS 

Finalist for the JMK Award with Jocelyn Cox, 2019

Finalist for the inaugural Naomi Wilkinson Award for Stage Design with Told by an Idiot, 2019 

 DESIGN 

Titus Andronicus dir. Jude Christian, Shakespeare's Globe, 2023

The Maladies dir. Yasmin Hafesji, associate dir. Abi Falase, Almeida Theatre, 2022 

Everyday dir. Paula Garfield, Deafinitely Theatre tour, 2022

Before I Was a Bear dir. Aneesha Srinivasan, Soho Theatre, 2022 and Bunker Theatre, 2019 

Svadba dir. Rebecca Meltzer, Waterperry Opera, 2022 

My Life as a Cowboy dir. Nikhil Vyas, Park Theatre, 2022

I Stand For What I Stand On dir. Anna Himali Howard, Gloucester Youth Community Action and Strike a Light, 2021

Penny devised by Maude ensemble, Pleasance London, 2021

The Seagull dir. Kristine Landon-Smith, Oxford School of Drama, 2021

 

Let the Right One In (costume design), dir. Matt Hassall, Lamda, 2021

I Don't Know Why I'm Crying devised by Maude ensemble for Theatre Delicatessen's Pandemic in the City, 2021

Do You Love Me Yet? created by Jocelyn Cox & Samuel E. Taylor, in association with Bristol Old Vic and Oxford Playhouse, 2020, and at Theatr Clwyd, 2021

The Importance of Being Earnest dir. Neil Bartlett, RADA, 2020

In My Lungs the Ocean Swells dir. Tash Hyman, Vaults Festival, 2020

If Not Now, When dir. Elayce Ismail, National Theatre: Dorfman, 2019

Spring Opera Scenes dir. Stephen Barlow, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 2019

i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) dir. Helen Morley, Bunker Theatre, 2019

Time of Listening R&D dir. Rebecca Hanbury, Snape Maltings, 2018

La bohème dir. Harry Fehr, Clonter Opera, 2018

Stop Giving Me Grief dir. Gemima Hull

From the Forest Festival, 2018

Masti Maja dir. Ajay & Tanvi Punatar, Sansaar Co., 2018
 

Gaps dir. Matt Strachan, Katzpace, 2018

FCUK'D dir. Niall Ransome, Bunker Theatre, 2017

The Death of Ivan Ilyich dir. Jonathan Humphreys

Merton Arts Space, 2017

Semele dir. Martin Constantine

Richard Burton Theatre & Mid Wales Opera Tour, 2017

Spring Awakening dir. Megan McGeough, SOAS, 2017

The cosmonaut's last message to the woman

he once loved in the former Soviet Union (set design)

dir. Simon Reeves, Bute Theatre, 2016

 

Road (set design) dir. Marilyn le Conte, Bute Theatre, 2016

Just Add Water (puppet designer & maker) dir. Emma Williams

site specific: Prague Quadrennial & RWCMD, 2015

 ASSOCIATE DESIGN

For Rebecca Wood:

  • Back into the World dir. Rebecca Hanbury, English Touring Opera, 2021

For Natasha Jenkins:

  • Let the Right One In (set design) dir. Matt Hassall, Lamda, 2021 

For Amy Cook:

  • You Stupid Darkness! dir. James Grieve, Southwark Playhouse transfer, 2020

 DRAMATURGY & DESIGN CONSULTANCY

Dreamsick why this sky, Camden People's Theatre, 2021 (ongoing)

work.txt created by Nathan Ellis, Vault festival, 2020

The Maple Tree dir. Elayce Ismail, City London Sinfonia tour to community spaces, 2020 (postponed)

 ASSISTANT WORK 

Assistant at Pinkfoot Gallery, Cley, June-October 2020

For Rosie Elnile:

  • Run Sister Run dir. Charlotte Bennett, Sheffield Studio, 2020

  • The Wolves dir. Ellen McDougal, Theatre Royal Stratford East, 2018

  • Abandon dir. Anne-Louise Sarks & Laura Lomas, Lyric Hammersmith, 2018

  • Goats dir. Hamish Pirrie, Royal Court, 2017

For Rajha Shakiry:

  • seven methods of killing kylie jenner dir. Milli Bhatia, Royal Court: Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, 2019

For Fly Davis:

  • La bohème dir. Max Webster, Göteborg Opera, 2020

For Gabriella Slade:

  • The Importance of Being Earnest  dir. Alastair Whatley, The Original Theatre Company tour, 2017 

  • Cinderella dir. Dominic Hill, Citizens Theatre, 2017

  • Loot dir. Michael Fentiman, Park Theatre & Watermill Theatre, 2017

For Sophie Jump

  • The Twelfth Player dir. Susanne Thomas, site specific: Sixfields Stadium, Northampton, 2017

  • Gauhar Jaan dir. Mukul Ahmed, Omnibus Theatre, 2018

  • Gauhar Jaan R&D dir. Mukul Ahmed, Brady Arts Centre, 2017

Design Assistant:

  • Wolf's Child des. Mydd Pharo, dir. Bill Mitchell, WildWorks Company, site specific: Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk, 2015

Puppet Renderer:

  • Ar Waith, Ar Daith Walk the Plank, site specific: Wales Millennium Centre, 2015

At RWCMD:

  • En Folkefiende des. Beth Oppenheim, dir. Andrew Wyhment, Caird Studio, 2016

  • Blue des. Anke Lambrechts, dir. Jude Christian, Bute Theatre & The Gate, 2016

  • Conspiracy des. Anke Lambrechts & Katie Hawken, Richard Burton Theatre & The Gate, 2016

  • Macbeth des. Jacob Lucy, dir. Caroline Byrne, Chapter Arts Centre, 2015

 

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 EXHIBITIONS 

Staging Places at the Prague Quadrennial and V&A: Semele showcased as part of the Society of British Theatre Designers' digital exhibition representing UK performance design from 2015-2019

 FACILITATION 

Regular deviser and leader of design workshops for the National Theatre and the Almeida Theatre

Designer and maker for the Donmar Warehouse's "Take the Stage" schools project, 2022

Designer and maker of creative stimuli for the Almeida Theatre's "Unmute All" schools project, 2021

Design facilitator of Summer Wellbeing Project for young people with artsdepot, 2021

Deviser and leader of a bespoke design workshop for Blue Elephant ReACT youth theatre, 2021 

Leader of workshops in set, costume and lighting design for KS2

Clonter Opera, 2017-2021

 WRITING 

"Book Review: Scenography by Simon Donger" Blue Pages, Society of British Theatre Designers Journal, issue 2 18. Read here

"Donmar on Design", Blue Pages, Society of British Theatre Designers Journal, issue 2 17. Read here

"Semele: Themes of Oppression and Escape Through Design", RWCMD blog. Read here

 TRAINING 

Design for Performance BA (Hons): First Class

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, 2014-2017

Foundation Diploma in Art and Design: Distinction

Falmouth University, 2013-2014

Costume skills training, National Youth Theatre, 2013

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