CV

Education

PhD (an oral history of British Theatre Design) / Wimbledon College of Art / 2009
Postgraduate Theatre Design Course / Bristol Old Vic Theatre School / 2002
BA (Hons) English & Theatre Studies (2:1) / University of Leeds / 2001

Design Work

Coming up…

Guards at the Taj / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Kash Arshad (8 August - 2 November 2019)

2019

The Children / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Stefan Escreet (showing until 1 November 2019)

My Mother Said I Never Should / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Katie Posner (showing until 30 October 2019)

Rouse Ye Women / Townsend Theatre UK Tour / Director: Louise Townsend

We’re Staying Right Here / Park Theatre / Director: Jez Pike

2018

Pericles / Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts / Director: John Ward

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists / Townsend Theatre UK Tour / Director: Louise Townsend

Barnbow Canaries / HOME for Manchester School of Theatre / Director: Joyce Branagh

2017

Picnic / HOME for Manchester School of Theatre / Director: Stefan Escreet

Blithe Spirit / HOME for Manchester School of Theatre / Director: Chris Hayes

Herding Cats / Play With Fire Productions / Hope Mill Theatre / Director: Lawrence Evans

David Copperfield / HOME for Manchester School of Theatre / Director: Chris Honer

Babies / East 15 Acting School / Director: Zoë Waterman

Tenderloin / East 15 Acting School / Director: Michael Fry

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / East 15 Acting School / Director: Tom Hughes

2016

When the Waters Recede / site-specific, Derwent Island / Director: Simon Money

The Blue Room / HOME for Manchester School of Theatre / Director: David Shirley

The Last Utopian / site-specific, Liverpool / Director: Adam McGuigan

Iron / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Mary Papadima

Elektra/ Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Mary Papadima

The Vertical Hour/ Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Zoë Waterman

Welcome to Thebes / East 15 Acting School / Director: Rikki Henry

Summerfolk / East 15 Acting School / Director: Matthew Lloyd

2015

13 / HOME for Manchester School of Theatre / Chris Hayes

Master of the Macabre / The Vaults Theatre / Director: Tony Middleton

The Lady of the Lake / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Mary Papadima

Enlightenment / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Zoë Waterman

Suddenly Last Summer / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Mary Papadima

Mr Paradise / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Mary Papadima

The Lark / East 15 Acting School / Director: Zoë Waterman

13 / East 15 Acting School / Director: Pooja Ghai

2014

The Long Road / Manchester Metropolitan University / Director: Chris Hayes

Five Kinds of Silence / Manchester Metropolitan University / Director: Chris Hayes

Brezhnev’s Children / Manchester Metropolitan University / Director: David O’Shea

Small Change / JMK Award shortlist / Director: Jez Pike

2013

The Cherry Orchard / Manchester Metropolitan University / Director: David Salter

The Shape of Things / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Jez Pike

'Tis Pity She’s a Whore / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Ian Forrest

Vincent in Brixton / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Stefan Escreet

2012

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / Hull Truck Theatre / Director: Elizabeth Newman

Peter Pan / Octagon Theatre, Bolton / Director: Elizabeth Newman

The Queen of the North / Octagon Theatre, Bolton / Director: Elizabeth Newman

Fear & Misery of the Third Reich / Manchester Metropolitan University / Director: Stefan Escreet

Macbeth / Octagon Theatre / Activ8 Youth Theatre

2011

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / Octagon Theatre / Director: Elizabeth Newman

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Mary Papadima

Dumb Show / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Stefan Escreet

The Blue Room / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Ian Forrest

2010

The Glass Menagerie / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Ian Forrest

Silence / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Stefan Escreet

Shining City / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Zoë Waterman

2006 - 2009

Full time PhD researcher at Wimbledon College of Art & National Life Stories,

The British Library carrying out research into British theatre design 1945 - 2003.

2006

Frozen / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Sarah Punshon

The Birthday Party / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Sarah Punshon

2005 & earlier

Holding out for a Hero / Plan B Theatre Company Tour / Director: Alison Kennedy

Stags and Hens / QEH Theatre, Bristol / Director: Teresa Sullivan

Blue/Orange / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Stefan Escreet

Ghosts / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Stefan Escreet

Tramping Like Mad / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Stefan Escreet

A Buyer’s Guide to Life / West Cumbria Rural Tour / Cumberland Youth Theatre

A Trace of Nuts / Theatre by the Lake studio / Cumberland Youth Theatre

The Christian Brothers / Etcetera Theatre / Director: Rhonwen McCormack

April in Paris / Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke / Director: Alasdair Ramsay

Where’s the Justice in That? / site-specific, Citadel, Carlisle / Cumberland Youth Theatre

Not a Game for Boys / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Stefan Escreet

Kiss of the Spider Woman / Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Ian Forrest

Wallflowering/ Theatre by the Lake studio / Director: Stefan Escreet

Hedda Gabler / White Bear Theatre / Director: Yael Shavit

Five Kinds of Silence / Old Red Lion Theatre / Director: Sonia Fraser

Student Work

Cider with Rosie / Bristol New Vic Studio / Director: John Hartoch

The Dwarfs / New Vic Basement, Bristol / Director Rhonwen McCormack

Our Country’s Good/ Redgrave Theatre, Bristol / Director: Elwyn Johnson

The Maids / Edinburgh Fringe Festival / Director: Catherine Brown

Macbeth / Edinburgh Fringe Festival / Director: Paul Valentine

Agamemnon / Raven Theatre, Leeds / Director: George Rodosthenous

Mac The Hero / Primary School tour / Director: Lauren Bracewell

Behold the Man / Converse Theatre Company tour / Director: John Bowtell

Hand in Hand / Huddersfield Festival / Director: Mark Batty

Parade & Le Boeuf sur le Toit / Banham Theatre, Leeds / Director: Oliver Emmanuel

Other Work

Oral history interviewer / National Life Stories, The British Library (2009 -present)

Visiting Lecturer / Contextual Studies / Wimbledon College of Art (2006 - 13)

PhD Research

My PhD, completed in 2009, was carried out at Wimbledon College of Art in collaboration with National Life Stories,

the oral history section of the British Library. The research involved recording 23 in-depth life story

interviews with British theatre designers. These form the basis of my thesis, which focuses on the

development of theatre design education and practice during the second half of the twentieth century.

Exhibitions

Make / Believe / scale model, photographs & drawings / Nottingham Trent University (2015)

Transformation & Revelation / scale model & photographs / Welsh College of Music & Drama (2011)

Alison Chitty: Design Process 1970-2010 / audio installation / National Theatre (2010)

Collaborators: UK Design for Performance / audio installation / Victoria & Albert Museum (2008)

Collaborators: UK Design for Performance / scale model & photographs / Nottingham Trent University (2007)

2D>3D ( SBTD regional exhibition) / scale models & photographs / Tullie House, Carlisle (2004)

Memberships

Equity

The Society of British Theatre Designers - committee member and acting editor since May 2016 of the Society's monthly newsletter, The Eye.

Training

Adobe Photoshop / Wimbledon College of Art (2009)

Transcript to Script (verbatim theatre) / Oral History Society (2009)

Theatre Design Traineeship / Theatre by the Lake, Cumbria (2003 - 04)