The Society of British Theatre Designers

2011 National Exhibition

Sue Condie

Gallery Images

  • Louis Emerick in Siswe Banzi

Biography

Sue trained at Middlesex Poly and the Nottingham Trent University in Theatre Design. For the first four years she worked with a host of touring companies designing for a variety of spaces.
Sue then became Associate Resident Designer at the New Victoria Theatre, Staffordshire, where designs included "Ghosts", "Private Lives", "Oliver Twist", "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "Overture", "Beauty and the Beast", "Insignificance" and "Aladdin" (costumes). She returned as a freelance designer on "Billy Liar" (also for the SJT Scarborough), "Sweeney Todd", "Outside Edge","Dealer's Choice" and ''Don Giovanni.''

Other freelance designs include ''1984'' tour (Northern Broadsides/Dukes/Stroud theatre Co);''The Snow Queen'', ''The Mikado'',''A Midsummer Night's Dream'',''Siswe Banzi Is Dead'' and ''A Christmas Carol'' (Stephen Joseph Theatre);''Sleeping Beauty'' and ''Robin Hood''(Salisbury Playhouse); ''Noises Off'',"East is East", "Corpse", "Hot Pants" and "Roughyeds" (Oldham Coliseum); "Insignificance", "Animal Farm", "Return To The Forbidden Planet" and "Alice" (Harrogate Theatre); "Three Minute Heroes", "Dick Whittington" and "Aladdin" (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); "Sleeping Beauty" and "Robin Hood" (Salisbury Playhouse); "Murder by Misadventure" and "I'll Remember You" (Mill at Sonning); "Bleak House" (Oxfordshire Touring Company);"Aladdin" and "Twelfth Night" (Cheltenham Everyman); "Mother Country " and "A Chaste Maid in Cheapside" (New Vic, Bristol);"The Just So Stories" ;"Jabberwocky'' , ''A Family Cookbook (Sixth Sense/Salisbury Playhouse);''Beginning With Blobs'' (Kazzum);''When The Lights Went Out'' ,''The Higher Ground'' ,''The Amazing and Preposterous Constance Smedley'' (Stroud Theatre Co).

For more details on Sue's work visit her website www.suecondie.co.uk