Victoria Johnstone
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Biography
Victoria Johnstone trained at Rose Bruford College, receiving First Class Honours on the BA (Hons) Theatre Design degree course. She has lived in Scotland, Texas and the Middle East and is now based in London.
Her recent designs for theatre include Origin of the Species at the Arcola and costumes for Saturday Night at the Jermyn Street Theatre/Arts Theatre tranfer (both dir. Tom Littler; Primavera Productions), The Unfortunate Love of the British Empire, Bugsy Malone and Anastasia (all Oval House Theatre), Unstated directed by Topher Campbell (Red Room: Southwark Playhouse and national tour), Hotel Medea (Zecora Ura/Para Active: Shunt Vaults and international tour – co-designer), set design for The Dilemma of a Ghost by Ama Ata Aidoo (Border Crossings/National Theatre of Ghana), The Cow Play by Ed Harris (dir. Andrea Brooks: Nightingale Theatre/regional tour), Torn (Arcola), Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine (Imploding Fictions: BAC/International tour), Vincent River by Philip Ridley, A Mother by Dario Fo and Franca Rame, and Amir Reza Koohestani’s Amid the Clouds (all BAC). She has also worked as a costume-, puppet- and prop-maker with companies including Scarlet, Punchdrunk, Soho Theatre and Oily Cart.
Victoria is also a highly skilled model-maker and has often assisted other designers in this capacity, most notably the opera designer and director Tim Hopkins on productions such as Of Thee I Sing/Let ‘Em Eat Cake for Opera North and Give Me Your Blessing For I Go to a Foreign Land at the Royal Opera House.
Victoria's current projects include Coming Home by Athol Fugard at the Arcola, directed by Cordelia Monsey, and model-making for the upcoming Diaghilev exhibition at the V&A Museum.
