Biography

Jida Akil is a Syrian/Lebanese set & costume designer. Since training at Central Saint Martins, she has worked with notable companies such as the Young Vic, National Theatre, Complicité, and Clean Break. Her designs have also gained international acclaim in exhibitions with Prague Quadrennial  (2020) and World Stage Design (2022), as well as the JMK Award Shortlist (2024).

Selected credits include: All The Happy Things (Soho Theatre); Scenes From Lost Mothers (Clean Break); Community (Birmingham Rep); Macbeth (Shakespeare in the Squares); All Growed Up (The Lyric Theatre, Belfast); Tender (Phosphoros Theatre, UK Tour); Pippin (Mountview); Earthquakes in London (Mountview); Penguin (Curious Monkey, UK Tour); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Stafford Gatehouse Theatre); The PappyCabaretShow (Battersea Arts Centre); Five Shorts (Young Vic); How To Break Out Of A Detention Centre (Riverside Studios); For A Palestinian (Camden People’s Theatre and Bristol Old Vic); Human Nurture (UK Tour); The Poison Belt (Jermyn Street Theatre); Painkiller (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Funeral Flowers (UK Tour); The 4th Country (Park Theatre); Complicité do A-Level Drama (Complicité, UK Schools Tour)