Carol Betera
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Carol Betera studied at University College, London, and at Nottingham. She began designing professionally at the Almost Free Theatre, London, and at Contact Theatre, Manchester. Since 1980 she has been based in Dublin.
Recent work includes "A Murder of Crows", "Boy with a Suitcase", "Big Sister, Little Brother" (Barnstorm), "Othello", (nominated for Irish Times Theatre Award for set design), "Macbeth", (Second Age), "Bog People" (Big Telly) - costume, "It's a Short Life", "Krapp's Last Tape", "Rough for Theatre 2", "Play" (Blue Raincoat Theatre Company), "How High is Up?" (TEAM), (nominated for Irish Times Theatre Award for costume design), "Master Harold and the Boys" (Calypso Theatre Company), "Shadow of a Gunman" (Lyric, Belfast), "Wolf of Winter", "Finders Keepers", "Sons and Daughters" (Irish National Theatre), "Sanctuary Lamp", "My Children, My Africa" (Gallowglass) , "Dog", "Moby Dan", "Nightmare on Abbey St", (Barabbas).
Previous work includes "Waiting for Godot" (Project), "The Risen People" (ICA, London), "Boss Grady's Boys", "Dark Lady", "I am of Ireland", (Irish National Theatre), "Carthaginians", "Mrs McConachy's Money" (Lyric, Belfast), "As You Like It", "Plough and the Stars" (Second Age), "Taking Steps" (Gate Theatre).
At Contact Theatre, "No More Sitting on the Old School Bench",(Alan Bleasedale), classics by O'Casey, Middleton and Rowley, Pinter, and at the Almost Free Theatre, "The Non-Stop Connolly Show" by John Arden and Margaretta Darcy.
She has worked on many young peoples' theatre productions with TEAM, Barnstorm, Storytellers and Second Age. Her work has been seen in Europe, America, Japan and Australia.
Costume design for film includes feature films "Da", "Korea", "How Harry Became a Tree", "Fifth Province" and for television, "Loving" , "The Ambassador 2" (BBC), "Brigid", "A Painful Case", "Riders to the Sea", "Dear Sarah", (RTE), "Caught in a Free State", "Year of the French" (Channel 4), also "Just in Time" (RTE, production design).
