Design Training

·1 year post-graduate design course at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), London, UK, 2003/2004:

Practical course assisting professional designers in the MacOwan Theatre & designing public shows in the LAMDA Linbury Studio.

 ·I designed the first 8 public shows in the new LAMDA Linbury Studio, London, UK as a design student (opened February 2004)

 ·Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) Set Design Summer School London, UK, 2003:

Theoretical set and costume design for Hamlet at The Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, UK  into a model box, technical and costume drawings for presentation.

·Central St. Martins DALI Courses in Set and Costume Design London, UK, 2003:  Tutor Gary Thorne (Head of Design at RADA, 2004)

 ·DESIGN DIRECT (2002), Tamasha Theatre Company Training Initiative for Directors and Designers at Goldsmith’s College, London, UK: which included creating two set designs into model boxes for presentation to invited theatre professionals.

Set and Costume Design

· Proud (April, 2009) by John Stanley: director: Christian Durham, 6:37 Productions, New Wimbledon Studio and Above the Stag Theatre, London , UK.

· Hate Mail (March, 2009) by Jack Heifner: director: Prav Menon-Johansson, Above the Stag Theatre, London , UK.

· The Choir (January, 2009) by Errol Bray: director: Prav Menon-Johansson, Shameless Theatre Company, Above the Stag Theatre, London, UK.

· 2B (or Not 2B) Part One & Two (November, 2008) by Jacquelyn Reingold: director: Prav Menon-Johansson, Open Plan Productions, Old Red Lion Theatre & Tristan Bates Theatre, London, UK.

· Scripted (November, 2008) by Mark Harvey Levine: director: Prav Menon-Johansson, Open Plan Productions, Old Red Lion Theatre & Tristan Bates Theatre, London, UK.

· The Merry Wives of Windsor (July, 2008) by Otto Nicolai: director: Jonathan Butcher, Surrey Opera, The Harlequin, Surrey and The Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Cornwall, UK.

· Westward Ho! (April 2008) by Thomas Dekker & John Webster, director: Andrea Kantor, Paper and String, White Bear Theatre Club, Kennington, London, UK.

· The Kentucky Cycle (October 2007) by Robert Schenkkan. director: David J. Miller, Zeitgeist Stage Company, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, USA [costume only]

· Two Rooms (May 2007) by Lee Blessing, director: Darren Evans, Theatre on Fire, Charlestown Working Theater, Cambridge, MA, USA

· Sacred Hearts (February 2007) by Colleen Curran, director: David J. Miller, Zeitgeist Stage Company, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, USA [costume only]

· After Ashley (October 2006) by Gina Gionfriddo, director: Shawn LaCount, Company One, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, USA.

·The Beggar’s Opera (August 2006) by Benjamin Britten, director: Mark Hathaway, Surrey Opera, Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, UK

·The Masked Ball (February 2006) by Giuseppe Verdi, director: William Relton, Surrey Opera, The Harlequin, Surrey & Sevenoaks Playhouse, Sevenoaks, UK

·Diamond (January 2006/June 2006) by Linda Wilkinson, director C.G Sandford, Women in Theatre, King’s Head, London, UK (costume only)

·Ghosts (January 2006) by Henrik Ibsen, director: Bryan Hands, Logos Theatre Company, New Wimbledon Studio, London, UK

·Le Petit Prince  (Jan. – May 2006), by Antoine Saint-Exupery adapted by director: Adam Roberts, European Theatre Company, Touring Schools in the United Kingdom

·Creditors (September 2005) by August Strindberg, director: Joseph Blatchley, Runaway Theatre Company, Southwark Playhouse, London, UK

·Bugsy Malone (August 2005) adapted from the musical by Alan Parker, director: Dawn-Yvette Bowman, Stagecoach Theatre Arts School, Twickenham, London, UK

·Essex Girls (July 2005) by Rebecca Prichard, director: Gari Jones, IV Play Theatre Company, Theatro Technis, London, UK

·Habeas Corpus (May 2005) by Alan Bennett, director: Crispin Bonham-Carter, LAMDA, LAMDA Linbury Studio, London, UK

·Loot (May 2005) by Joe Orton, director: James Kerr, LAMDA, LAMDA Linbury Studio, London, UK

·Stags and Hens (May 2005) by Willy Russell, director: Jenny Lipman, LAMDA, LAMDA Linbury Studio, London, UK

·Tied (March 2005), Devised Forum piece, director: Simone Helleren, Clean Break Theatre Company, London, UK

·Balm in Gilead (February 2005) by Lanford Wilson, director Joseph Blatchley, LAMDA, LAMDA Linbury Studio, London, UK (costume only)

•The Crucible (February 2005) by Arthur Miller, director: Gadi Roll LAMDA, LAMDA Linbury Studio, London, UK (costume only)

·Arsene Lupin (Jan.-May 2005) by Estelle Rosenfeld, director Adam Roberts, European Theatre Company, Touring schools in the United Kingdom

·Le Pirate et La Perle (Nov 04-March 05) by Jill Aisher, director: Adam Roberts, European Theatre Company, Winner of the European Awards for Languages, 2004, Touring schools in the United Kingdom

•The Tracey Ermin Bedshow (Aug /October 2004) by Carola Stewart, director: Bryan Hands, The Bryan Hands Company, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland & King’s Head, London, UK

•The Master and the Margarita (July 2004) by Mikhail Bulgakov, director: Blanche McIntyre, Left Handed Theatre Company, Greenwich Playhouse, London, UK

 London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), UK

Set and Costume Designer for the LAMDA Linbury Studio

In Repertory – July 2004

·My Night with Reg by Kevin Elyot, director: Colin Cook

·Five Visions of the Faithful by Torben Betts, director Gari Jones

·Ice Cream and Hot Fudge by Caryl Churchill, director: Penny Cherns

In Repertory – May 2004

·The Physicists by Friedrich Durrenmatt, director: Margarete Forsyth

·Lulu by Franz Wedekind, director: Penny Cherns

·Strange Orchestra by Rodney Ackland, director: John Link

In Repertory – February 2004

·The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky, director: Helena Kout- Howson,

·Barbarians by Maxim Gorky, director: Deborah Paige

Assistant to Professional Designers at the MacOwan Theatre, LAMDA

In Repertory- March 2005, Designer: Douglas Heap

·Arcadia by Tom Stoppard, director: John Bashford

·The Haunted House by Titus Plautus, director: James Kerr

·Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl, director: Davis McCallum

February 2005 Designer: Philip Engleheart

·Maggie May (musical) written & scored by Lionel Bart, director: Stephen Jameson

December 2005 Designer: Rebecca Hurst

·Collateral Damage by Philip Osment, director: Mike Alfreds

In Repertory - October 2005 Designer: Richard Bullwinkle

·Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan, director: Fiona Buffini

·Handbag by Mark Ravenhill, director Gari Jones

·Translations by Brian Friel, director Joseph Blatchley 

Previous Productions

·Scream Little Sunday/Trio of Montague (2003), Devised Piece, director Stuart Mackie, New London Summit Theatre, Etcetera Theatre, London, UK

·For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (2003) by Michael Tremblay, Director: Emily Brothers: Goldsmiths College, London, UK

·Cahoot’s MacBeth (2003) by Tom Stoppard, director: Beckie Mills, Alabaster Productions, King’s Head Theatre, London, UK

·Cosi Fan Tutte (2002) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, director: Emma Rivlin, Lively Theatre Company, Clough Hall, Cambridge, UK

·Today of all Days (2002), 2002 Footlights National Tour, director: Paul King, Pleasance Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland and various theatres in the UK

·Latin! or ‘Tobacco and Boys’ (2002) by Stephen Fry, director: Adam Barnard,  Activated Image Theatre Company, Corpus Christi Playroom, Cambridge, UK

·The House of Bernarda Alba (2002) by Fredrico Garcia Lorca, director Nick Blackburn, ADC Production, ADC Theatre, Cambridge, UK

·The Promise (2002) by Alexei Arbuzov, director: Philip Breen, Triple Point Productions, Union Theatre, London, UK (costume design)                       

·Far Too Happy (2001), 2001 Footlights National Tour, director: Philip Breen, Pleasance Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland & various locations in the UK including Fortune Theatre, London, (costume design)

Assistant to Professional Designers

·Engaged (2002) by W.S. Gilbert, director: Tim Carroll, Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, UK. Resident designer: Sam Dowson

·The Fabulous Fables of Aesop (2002) by Keith Galloway, director Paul Griffiths, Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, UK.  Resident designer: Sam Dowson

·Bread and Butter (2001) by C.P. Taylor, director: Mark Rosenblatt, Dumbfounded Theatre Company, Southwark Playhouse, London, UK.  Designer: Angela Simpson

 Referees

Peter James: Principal of LAMDA

155 Talgarth Rd. Barons Court, London W14 9DA, UK

Telephone: +44 (0) 208 834 0552

Bryan Hands: Artistic Director Logos Theatre Company

13 Church Lane, London, N2 8DX, UK

Telephone: +44 (0) 208 444 5994