Becky Hawkins
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Becky is a freelance set and costume designer, but has been lucky enough to have designed fairly regularly at the Exeter Northcott over the past eleven years, including designing the costumes for the 2009 panto, 'Mother Goose'. She also designed the Dame's costumes for eight previous Northcott pantomimes, and also the sets for 'Cinderella' and 'Aladdin'.
Having also worked extensively with the Northcott Young Company and the Northcott Community Company since they began, Becky designed set and costumes for 'Cider with Rosie' in Rougemont Gardens, 'The Curse of the Werewolf' (Rougemont Gardens and the Minnack Theatre), 'Fiddler on the Roof' on the mainstage, and costumes for 'Days of Hope' and 'Matthew Miller', plus the first nine NYC Easter shows - 'Goodnight Mr Tom', 'The Boyfriend', 'Godspell', 'Around the World in Eighty Days', 'Oh What a Lovely War!', 'Tin Pan Ali', 'Oliver!', 'The Wizard of Oz' and 'The Wind in the Willows'.
Also for the Northcott, Becky designed professional productions of 'Bouncers', 'A Passionate Woman' and 'Hamlet'.
Becky trained at Goldsmiths' College, University of London with a BA Honours degree in English and Drama followed by the postgraduate Theatre Design course at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 1990.
She has also completed a Masters in Fine Art, and is a qualified Play Worker.
Becky has designed over seventy productions across her career, many of them youth theatre shows, including the World Première of 'Korczak' in Plymouth and Poland, 'Brother Jacques', 'The Threepenny Opera', 'Oh, What A Lovely War!', 'Sweeney Todd' and 'The Hired Man' at The Drum, Plymouth; 'Macbeth', 'Custer's Last Stand', 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Blood Wedding' and 'Into the Woods' at Salisbury Playhouse; new writing and youth theatre shows at the Theatre Royal Bath; 'The Polychronicon', a millennium community play at the Chester Gateway Theatre, and touring productions of 'The Weir'and 'Grimms' Tales' for the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton.
Most recently, Becky designed set and costumes for the youth theatre production of 'James and the Giant Peach' at the Exeter Northcott. Despite the theatre going into administration, and the production manager and several other key staff being made redundant during the production period, the show went on, thanks to the hard work and team spirit of the remaining staff! Thank you all!!