Dinah England
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Dinah England trained in theatre design at Nottingham Trent University.
As resident designer at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch she designed set and costumes for twenty-eight main house productions, including "Hard Times", "The Entertainer", "Having a Ball", "Jack the Ripper", "Don't Dress for Dinner", "A Chorus of Disapproval", "Dracula", "What the Butler Saw", "The Glass Menagerie", "Jack and the Beanstalk", "One for the Road", "Blithe Spirit", "April in Paris", "The Ghost Train", "Lost World", "Brief Encounter", "Sleuth", "Sleeping Beauty", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Keep on Running". Also costumes for "Blitz" and "Perfect Pitch", a collaboration with Hull Truck; and set and costumes for the community plays "The Champion of the Horned Church", "Check it Out", "Down the River and Up the Road", "Bubbles in the Air", "The Path of the Brave" and costumes for "Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, And Me!".
Dinahs freelance work includes the UK première of the musical "Murderous Instincts" (Theatre Royal, Norwich and The Savoy Theatre, London) and the première of "Year 10" (The Finborough Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, and then Le Thèâtre National de Strasbourg). Also "Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis" (Salisbury Playhouse), "Room at the Top" and costumes for the première of "It's a Fine Life" (The Queen's Theatre, Horchurch), "The Card" (Arts Ed, London), "Victorian Music Hall", "Scenes From the Big Picture" (East 15), "Time of My Life", "A Night in Provence", "The Heiress", "Plaza Suite", "The Odd Couple", "I Ought to be in Pictures" (The Mill at Sonning), "Mother Goose" and "Dick Whittington" and "Sleeping Beauty" (Liverpool Everyman), "Tommy" (LAMDA), "Yerma" and "Widows" (E15)
Current projects include "Guilty Secret" for The Mill at Sonning
