Claire Lyth
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Claire Lyth did a Pre-diploma course at Sutton College of Art then read Drama, History and English at Bristol University
" Spent 10 years in Rep. in many parts of the country before becoming Head of Design at Liverpool Playhouse and the Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh.
Her subsequent freelance career has taken her all over the world - Hong Kong, the States, Scandinavia, Germany, Vienna and Beirut. Shows she has designed have toured even further afield.
Her varied career has ranged from Morecombe Pier to the Old Vic. Along the way there have been 39 Shakespeare designs and 62 World premieres (new writing remains a particular interest)
' Shows include:-"Stormforce" at the Riverside Studios in London; ""Twelfth Night" for the National Theatre of Norway; "The Man Who Thinks He's It" (The Steve Coogan Show, Lyceum, London); "Goodness Gracious Me" (Tour); "Macbeth", "Merchant of Venice" and "God Say Amen" (English Shakespeare Company); "Macbeth" (Residenz Theatre, Munich); "Anna in Love" (Hackney Empire Studio); "Misery" (King's Head); "Split Second", "Mad and her Dad" (Lyric, Hammersmith); "Peter Pan" and "The Three Musketeers" (Crucible, Sheffield); "Rigoletto" (tour for WNO); "Winters Tale" and "Tosca" (Everyman, Liverpool); "My Fair Lady" (Aarhus, Denmark); "Oklahoma!" (national tour); "Fungus the Bogeyman" (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); "All's Well That Ends Well" and "Comedy of Errors" (Regent's Park); "Othello" and "As You Like It" (Ludlow Festival); "Archangels Don't Play Pinball" (Bristol Old Vic); "Romeo and Juliet" (Sherman Theatre, Cardiff) (part of the British stand at the Prague Quadrennial Exhibition of Theatre Design 1999).
Recently designed Gorki's "The Last Ones" for Rose Bruford College and "Man of La Mancha" for Guildford School of Acting.