About

Liz is a set and costume designer based in South West London, where she has a studio at FusionARTS, Kingston. She grew up in Liverpool and has worked at theatres across the UK including Storyhouse, Eastern Angles, The Octagon Bolton, HOME, Hull Truck Theatre, Theatre Porto and Theatre by the Lake, where she began her career as a trainee.

Much of Liz’s work has been for non-traditional, open, theatre spaces - especially in-the-round and traverse. She has extensive experience of designing plays in repertoire and for touring, creating designs that are effective in performance but also function practically to enable quick turnarounds, storage and transportation.

Liz has enjoyed long-term collaborations with directors and theatre companies. Some of her favourite projects have included: ‘The Gangs of New York’ directed by John Young and produced by Storyhouse for Grosvenor Park open Air Theatre, ‘Wallflowering’, directed by Stefan Escreet; ‘The Glass Menagerie’ directed by Ian Forrest’ and ‘Elektra’ (translated by poet Anne Carson) with Mary Papadima for Theatre by the Lake and ‘Rouse Ye Women’ a touring folk opera created by Townsend Theatre.

Liz works as an oral history interviewer for National Life Stories and was Lead Curator on the British Library’s web resource, Voices of British Theatre Design, featuring essays and audio interviews, many of which Liz recorded for her PhD on theatre design (University of the Arts London, 2009). She also works for the the Royal Opera and Ballet’s Learning and Participation programme, Create & Design, where she led the development of a new KS3 Design & Technology course on theatre design.