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Lauren Connolly

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Lauren Connolly

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Biography

Professional

Lauren is a designer for live performance and events.
She has designed sets and costumes nationally for Off West End, touring, immersive, and community productions across theatre, dance, carnival, festivals and short film for companies including The Royal Shakespeare Company, Watford Palace Theatre and Greenwich Theatre. She has also been lead stylist on events for companies including Sky and NOW TV.

Lauren trained in Theatre Design at Nottingham Trent University where she achieved a First Class Honours Degree.  She was awarded Nottingham Theatre Royal’s Costume Design Prize in 2015 where her costume designs were realised for The School for Scandal, a performance celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Theatre Royal’s opening in 1865.   She was awarded the Birmingham Opera Prize for her designs of Dido and Aeneas and as a result worked on Birmingham Opera Company’s 2018 world premiere of Wake as the Assistant Designer to Richard Hudson.
Her Costume Co-Design The Electrifying Body won the Design Award and Runner Up in the King category at EMCCAN’s Carnival Clash at Nottingham Playhouse.

Design Credits:  Treasure Island, Alarms & Excursions (Greenwich Theatre); Power Of Three (Full House Theatre); Who Are You…Really? (Holding Space Collective); Out There, Laced Within Our Borders, Were You There? (Next Generation Youth Theatre); Capulets and Candyfloss (Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Nation); Aladdin (Berkshire Theatre Company); Niamh Armstrong: On Another Planet (Short Film, Pocket Projects & Into Film); Riot Act (Not Another Carnival, Dark Olive, PeoplePowerPassion); The Eden Effect (The Basement Bunch); Pinocchio/Sleeping Beauty (Nottingham Playhouse); Imagine Luton & Watford (Watford Palace Theatre); Rise of the Shadow Stealers (Suitcase and Spectacles); The Electrifying Body (EMCCAN/Nottingham Playhouse); Oedipus the King (Lakeside Arts Nottingham).

As Associate:  Queen of Hearts (des. Cleo Pettit with Greenwich Theatre); The Stage in The Park (des. Louie Whitemore with Watford Palace Theatre); Seedling (des. Ruth Stringer with Carbon Theatre); DevoEvo Pop Up Performance Shop (des. Becky-Dee Trevenen with Tangled Feet)

As Assistant:  Lightyear UK Premier, Orient Flux, Die Zauberflote (des. Stuart Nunn with Kennedy London, Macerata Opera Festival); The Enchanted Island (des. Nicky Shaw with British Youth Opera); Wake (des. Richard Hudson with Birmingham Opera Company); In The Night Garden Live, Bing! Live (des. Samuel Wyer with Minor Entertainment); Pygmalion, Two, Wrestling the Walrus (des. Hannah Sibai with English Theatre Frankfurt, Gala Theatre Durham, Manchester Royal Exchange); Les Dialogues Des Carmelites (des. Anna Bonomelli with RNCM Manchester); Eugenius! The Musical, Hubbub A Musical Adventure (des. Hannah Wolfe with Other Palace Theatre, MishMash Productions)


Treasure Island

 
   
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Role:
Set and Costume Designer
Year:
2022
Venue:
Greenwich Theatre, London

Credits:

Writer
Le Navet Bete and John Nicholson
Director:
James Haddrell
Set and Costume Designer
Lauren Connolly
Lighting Designer:
Hector Murray
Costume Supervisor
Li-Lee Choo
Stage Manager
Cora Parkinson
Producer/Company
Greenwich Theatre
Performers
Elliot Bornemann, Lauren Drennan, David Haller, Helen Ramsay


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