The Society of British Theatre Designers

2011 National Exhibition

Adrian Linford

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Biography

Adrian trained at Wimbledon School of Art and works as a freelance set and costume designer for theatre, film and television.

Work in the UK includes "Betrayal" (Colchester), "Così fan Tutte" (Grange Park Opera tour), "Assassins" (Pimlico Opera), and Judith Weir's opera "The Vanishing Bridegroom" at Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, directed by Lee Blakeley.

Other opera work includes "Albert Herring" (co-design, Aldeburgh Festival), "Nabucco" & "Così fan Tutte" (Opera West), "Orlando" (Cambridge Handel Opera), "Il Seraglio" (costume design: English Touring Opera), and the co-design for "Il Trovatore" for the Bastille Opera in Paris, directed by Francesca Zambello.

Theatre work includes "Stars in the Mornng Sky", "Peter and the Captain", "The Promise", "Inside the Firm" "Up on The Roof" (Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch), "The Glass Menagerie", "Camino Real". Also productions of "The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife", "Yerma", "Blood Wedding" and the UK Première of "When Five Years Pass".

He has also worked in Singapore on productions of "Blithe Spirit", "They're Playing Our Song" (also Manilla,) "Art" and the world première of a musical 'who-done-it?', "A Twist of Fate" in association with the Raffles Hotel.

Television costume design includes "Wish" (BBC2), "Tea" (MTV/Channel 4) and "Belzoni" (Channel 4).