C.V. / by Catherine Morgan

TRAINING

BA Theatre Design:     Nottingham Trent University;First Class Honours. 2009

Art Foundation Diploma:                 Wimbledon School of Art; Distinction 2006

 

THEATRE DESIGN WORK

Berlin to Broadway(City Varieties, Leeds: Opera North, West Yorkshire Playhouse).

Directed by Giles Havergal.

 Boots by Jessica Butcher and Sacha Voit(Vault Festival).

Directed by Lucy Wray

 

You by Mark Wilson (Vault Festival).

Directed by Sarah Meadows

 

Double Trouble by Darren Raymond(Intermission Youth Theatre).

Directed by Darren Raymond

 

Salad Days by Julian Slade & Dorothy Reynolds  (The Union Theatre, Bath Theatre Royal).

Directed by Bryan Hodgson

 

The Arsonists by Max Frisch (Courtyard Theatre, Hoxton).

Directed by Jake Smith 

 

Joking Apartby Alan Ackborne (Courtyard Theatre, Hoxton).

Directed by Paul Jayes

 

Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca (Courtyard Theatre, Hoxton).

Directed by Phil Willmott 

 

Punk Rock by Simon Stevens (Courtyard Theatre, Hoxton).

Directed by Petina Hapgood 

 

Diaboliadby Mikhail Bulgacov (Courtyard Theatre, Hoxton).

Directed by Freda O’Byrne

 

Love Me to Death by Darren Raymond (Intermission Youth Theatre).

Directed by Fabian Spencer and Craig Blake

 

Mr Incredibleby Camilla Whitehill(Vault Festival and Underbelly, Edinburgh Fringe).

Directed by Sarah Meadows. Co – designed with Justin Nardella.

 

Screwedby Kathryn O Reilly(Theatre 503)

Directed by Sarah Meadows

 

My Story, My Music, My Monologue (Intermission Youth Theatre).

Directed by Darren Raymond

 

Rise & Fall by Darren Raymond (Intermission Youth Theatre).

Directed by Darren Raymond

 

The One Day of The Year (Finborough)

Directed by Wayne Harrison

 

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (New Wimbledon Theatre Studio).

Directed by Stuart Barter

 

Othelloby William Shakespeare (Bussey Building).

Directed by Anthony Green

 

Ring of Envyby Darren Raymond (Intermission Youth Theatre).

Directed by Darren Raymond

 

Eisteddfod by Luke Barnes (Latitude Festival) High Tide.

Directed by Rob Drummer

 

Baba Shakespeareby Emmeline Winterbothan (RSC; Open Stages Festival, Arcola).

Directed by Emmeline Winterbothan

 

Gerbils in a Glass Cage by Rosalind Ting(The Space).

Directed by Tanja Pagnuco

 

Fit for Purpose by Catherine O’Shea (Pleasance, Edinburgh).

Directed by Tanja Pagnuco

 

Verona Roadby Darren Raymond (Intermission Youth Theatre).

Directed by Darren Raymond

 

London Lets Get Visceral by several writers (Old Vic Tunnels).

Directed by several directors

 

What Shall we Tell Caroline? By John Mortimer (White Bear Theatre).

Directed by Zee Faloon

 

Hobson’s Choice by Harold Brighouse (Broadway Theatre, Catford).

Directed by Tom Southerland

 

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (Broadway Theatre, Catford).

Directed by Alice Lacey

 

Story Project 2– Writing Showcase (Southwark Playhouse).

Directed by Several Directors

 

The Ostrich & the Dolphinby Juliet Stephenson (Royal Institution & National Tour)

Directed by Alice Lacey

 

ASSISTANT DESIGN WORK

LESLIE TRAVERS: I Puritani (Welsh National Opera, Danish National Opera, Liceu; Barcelona) as Associate Designer, Gipsy Baron (Grand Theatre, Geneva) Francesco da Rimimi (La Scala; Italy),Fiddler on the Roof (Malmo Opera; Sweeden), The Marriage of Figaro (Lyric Opera; Kansas City),Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Royal Opera House; Linbury Studio),Don Carlos (Grange Park Opera), Pleasure (Opera North), Straszny Dwor (Polish National Opera), Elysium (Norwegian Opera), Billy Budd (Opera North),Grimes on the Beach (Model for V&A exhibition), Rebecca (Plymouth Theatre Royal & UK Tour),Salome (Sante Fe Opera; New Mexico), TheMarriage of Figaro (Opera North), La Boheme(Malmo Opera, Sweeden).

GILES CADLE: La Belle Helene (Opera Nationale de Lorraine, France), Coraline (The Barbican)The Treatment (Almeida), Les Huguenots (Deutsche Oper, Berlin), Hansel & Gretel / Cinderella / The Snow Maiden (Opera North), Nothing (Glyndebourne Festival Opera), Things We Do for Love (Bath Theatre Royal & UK Tour), La Fanciulla Del West (Opera North), La Voix Humaine / Dido & Aeneas(Opera North) as Associate Designer, The Yellow Wallpaper (Schaubuhne, Berlin), Damned by Despair (National Theatre; Olivier)

JAMIE VARTAN: Ariadne Auf Naxos (La Scala; Italy) Un Ballo in Maschera (Grange Park Opera) As Associate Designer, Woyzeck in Winter (Galway Arts Festival), Die Walkure (Grange Park Opera), A Mid Summer Nights Dream (Bath Theatre Royal),The Rape of Lucretia (Guilldhall), The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe (Birmingham Rep), Machincal (Barbican), La Boheme (Grange Park Opera).

RAE SMITH: The Marriage of Figaro (Paris Opera), Paradise (National Theatre; Olivier) as Associate Designer, Barber Shop Chronicles (National Theatre; Dorfman), Australia / New Zealand Tour, North American Tour, UK Tour, Roundhouse, BAM, New York) as Associate Designer, St George and the Dragon (National Theatre, Olivier) as Associate Designer, The Goat (Theatre Royal Haymarket).

STEWART LAING: Die Valkyrie (English National Opera), End Game / Rough for Theatre 11 (Old Vic) Creditors (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh), The Skating Rink (Garsington Opera), The Hairy Ape (The Old Vic, Park Avenue Armory; New York) as Associate Designer, The Sewing Group (Royal Court), La Boheme (Royal Opera House). 

HELEN GODDARD: Werter (Scottish Opera), A Country Wife (Manchester Royal Exchange) Romeo & Juliet (Nottingham Playhouse & National Tour), Dream Story (The Gate) as Costume Superviser, Lakeboat / Prarie du Chien (Arcola), The Spanish Tragedy (Arcola), James & the Giant Peach (The Watermill), All That Flutter (Theatre 503).

SOUTRA GILMOUR: Twelfth Night (National Theatre; Olivier), Urinetown (St James Theatre), Moon on a Rainbow Shaw(National Tour), Night Alive (Donmar Warehouse), From Here to Eternity (Shaftesbury Avenue Theatre), The Hothouse (Trafalgar Studios), Cyrano DeBergerac  (Roundabout Theatre, New York), School for Scandal(Bath Theatre Royal). 

SARAH BEATON: The Picture of Dorian Grey (Richmond Theater & UK Tour), Wild East(Young Vic), My Dad’s Gap Year(Park Theatre), Building the Wall(Park Theatre), Great Apes(Arcola), Mother Christmas(Hampstead Theatre), The Man I Live With(Clapham Omnibus), Faust(Altes Schauspielhaus, Stuttgart),This is Living(Trafalgar Studios).

ANTONY MCDONALD: On the Town (Hyogo Performing Art Centre, Japan) Alice in Wonderland (Royal Opera House), Werther (Bergen National Opera), Hansel and Gretal(Royal Opera House), Katya Kabanov(Royal Opera House),Ariande Auf Naxos (Scottish Opera, Holland Park Opera)

JUSTIN NARDELLA: Le Grand Morte (Trafalgar Studios), The Life (Southwark Playhouse), Casa Valentina (Southwark Playhouse), Where Do Little Birds Go?  (Old Red Lion, Vault Festival, Edinburgh Fringe,  UK Tour) as Associate Designer.

BEN STONES:Standing at the Sky’s Edge(Sheffield Crucible), The Suicide (National Theatre, Lyttleton), My Generation (West Yorkshire Playhouse),Groove on Down the Road (Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre).

GABRIELLA SLADE: Moll Flanders (Mercury Theatre), Murder for Two(Watermill Theatre). Spring Awakening(Hope Mill Theatre).

ALEX EALES: Un Ballo in Maschera (Norweigan National Opera), Orlando(Schaubuhne, Berlin), Bluebeard’s Castle (Munich Opera), Bluets (Deutsches Schauspeilhaus).

THADDEUS STRASSBERGER: Pique Dame (Innsbruck Opera) Andrea Chenier(Straatstheatre Braunschweig, Germany).

TIM GOODCHILD: The Nutcracker(Houston Ballet), Strangers on a Train(Guilgud).

GARY MCCANN: Saturday Night Fever(UK Tour), Fox Finder (Ambassadors Theatre).

AARON MARSDEN: Why Does the Queen Die? (Guildhall) as Associate Designer.

ELLAN PARRY: Rotterdam (UK Tour) as Associate Designer

FLORENCE DE MARE: Tosca, Patience (English Touring Opera).

IAN MACNEIL: A Dolls House (Young Vic & Duke of York Theatre). 

LARA BOOTH: Rigoletto, Don Pasquale (Longborough Festival Opera).

SIMON KENNY:Good Grief (Bath Theatre Royal), Our Town(Arts Ed) 

MICHAEL LEVINE:Sweeney Todd (Zurich Opera).

NATASHA JENKINS:Monstrous Bodies (Dundee Rep).

AARON MARSDEN: Why Does the Queen Die? (Guildhall School of Music and Drama) as Associate Designer.

GILLIAN DENNY: Three Tales (The Science Museum Imax).

TOM CAIRNS: Minetti (Royal Lyceum Theatre) for Edinburgh International Festival.

ROBERT INNES HOPKINS: Tosca (San Fransisco Opera).

VICKI MORTIMER: Die Entfuhrung aus Dem Serail (Glyndebourne Festival Opera).

EMMA TOMPKINS: Responsible Other (Hampstead Theatre, Downstairs).

LIVVY VAUGHN: Clod &Pebble (Carnaby Street Shop) for Punchhdrunk.

BECS ANDREWS: The Hotel (Edinburgh Town House) for The Invisible Dot.

COMPETITIONS

Finalist in the Dutch National Opera Dutch Opera Design Award competition 2017 

 

FILM & TELEVISION WORK 

As Art Director/ Production Designer

Malachi by Sanchez Brown(Supporting Every Dream Productions, Directed by Sanchez Brown),Game Over by Cyrus Trafford(Moment 2 Moment Productions, Directed by Cyrus Trafford)Crumbs by Heidi Carmichael(Moment 2 Moment Productions, Directed by Cyrus Trafford)CBBC Red Button Set (BBC).

As Prop Maker/ Set Dresser:

Custard by Ella Hickson(Time Warner & Old Vic New Voices,designed by Emily Durtnall),Seconds from Disaster(National Geographic, designed by Jo Manser),CBBC Summertime Studio Set(BBC, designed by Nancy Jack) Friday Download(Salt Beef T.V. for BBC.), CBBC Presentation(BBC), CBeebies Presentation(BBC).

As Model Maker:

Small Fortune(ITV)

  

THEATRE EDUCATION WORK

National Theatre Design Workshops: 

Regularly developed and lead theatre design workshops for students for the National Theatre including workshops inspired by Tartuffe,Pinocchio,St George and the DragonPeter Pan,Frankensteinand Wonderdotland.