ABBY CLARKE | performance designer
CV
ABBY CLARKE
performance designer
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Credits
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2 0 1 9
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Set and Costume Designer
Prince Gorge
Fuel, Manchester, Camden People's Theatre, London
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Designer
The Bathkeeper's Secret R&D
Withington Baths, Manchester
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Set and Puppet Designer
Unfortunate
Edinburgh Fringe
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Set and Costume Designer
SWIM
HOME Theatre, Manchester
The Pleasance, Edinbugh Fringe
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Designer
Alphabus
Unit 5, Great Northern Warehouse
Manchester International Festival
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Stage Designer
Abida Parveen
Lyric Theatre, The Lowry
Manchester International Festival
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Set and Costume Designer
Luminosity
HOME Theatre, Manchester
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Set and Costume Designer
Our Friends in the North
HOME Theatre, Manchester
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Set and Costume Designer
The Taming of the Shrew
HOME Theatre, Manchester
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2018
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Set and Costume Co-Designer
Beauty and the Beast
Theatre by The Lake, Keswick
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Design Assistant
Pericles - Designed by Fly Davis
National Theatre, London
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Set and Costume Co-Designer
Read All About It!
Belgrade Theatre/ Coventry Evening Telegraph Building
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Event Designer
The Little Orchestra - Nature's Echo
Oval Space, London
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Event Designer
The Little Orchestra - Fire in the Evening
York Hall, London
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2017
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Linbury Prize Finalist- Conceptual Set and Costume Designer
Pieces of String - conceptual design and exhibition
National Theatre Linbury Prize/ Mercury Theatre Colchester
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Event Designer
The Little Orchestra- Twilight transitions
Oval Space, London
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Set and costume designer
Image of and Unknown Young Woman
dir. Mel Hillyard
Caird Studio
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Design assistant
The Last Ambulance
Burton Theatre, Cardiff, Gate Theatre, Notting Hill
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The productions listed below are all Set Design Credits
E D U C A T I O N
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Design For Performance MA (Distinction)
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
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English Language and Literature BA (Hons)
University of Oxford
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AWARDS
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THE STAGE DEBUT AWARDS 2019
Best Designer - Nominee
Beauty and the Beast
THE LINBURY PRIZE FOR STAGE DESIGN 2017
Finalist
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2016
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The Ruby in the Smoke
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The Changing of the Guard dir. Iqbal Khan
The Phantom of the Opera
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2015
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TEDx Oxford
Around the World in 80 Days-
Winner of the Buxton Fringe prize for
Best Production
Living Together
Yesterday
The Three Musketeers
Breathing Corpses,
His Dark Materials Part 2
Passion
The Architect
King Lear
The St Anne’s Musical Revue
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2014
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HMS Pinafore
The Furies
R&J
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2013
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Aladdin!
Blackwell’s Bookshop, The Courtyard, London
King Dome, Edinburgh.
Revived for Brighton Fringe 2017
O’Reilly Theatre
O’Reilly Theatre
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The New Theatre
The Edinburgh Fringe, Buxton Fringe festival,
St John’s College Garden, Oxford
The Oxford Playhouse
BT Studio
O’Reilly Theatre
O’Reilly Theatre
O’Reilly Theatre
O’Reilly Theatre
O’Reilly Theatre
O’Reilly Theatre
St Anne’s Hall
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Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Cornwall
The Oxford Playhouse
Michael Pilch Studio
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O’Reilly Theatre