Biography
ProfessionalAmy trained on the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School MA Set and Costume Design course.
She has a degree in Theatre, Film and Television from York St. John (University of Leeds).
Design Credits: Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and Pinocchio (The Point); Dracula, 6 Nights in Naples and Canterbury Tales (LCM); 3 Little Pigs (Stuff and Nonsense); The Girl and the Giraffe (Floods of Ink/Half Moon); Kiss me Kate (Mountview); Silver Gym (Queen’s Hornchurch); The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Trinity Laban – Stratford Circus); Nobody’s Home (Theatre Temoin); Around The World in 80 Days (Arcola and Talimhane Tiyatrosu in Istanbul); Clown Sex, (Arcola Academy); After Juliet, Belong,Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Animal Farm (Arcola Youth Theatre); Engram, Animal Farm, Making Stalin Laugh, Dick Turpin, The Devil’s Elixer, Marat/Sade and AD2050 (East15); Running for Glory and The Prisoner of Zenda (Chalkfoot Theatre Arts, Tour); A Midsummer Nights’ Dream ,Who’s There, Starry, Starry Night and Darkness – (Lakeside Theatre); Less Than Kind (Planet Productions, Tour); Vahnu Vese: Everybody (Tangle – Africa Centre); Shiver (Theatre 6, The Yard – co-design with Miriam Nabarro), Bette and Joan: The Final Curtain (Foursight Theatre Company); Wretch (Colchester Mercury and Edinburgh Festival); I am a Camera (Cornelius Cooke – Rosemary Branch Theatre) – Off West End Award Nominated; The Rivals (Colchester Mercury); Dr Faustus (Creation); Stockholm – (Colchester Mercury Studio); Island, Hard Times, The Prodigious Snob, Cider with Rosie Caucasian Chalk Circle and The Kitchen (Mercury Youth Theatre); Love in Shakespeare (Heartbreak Productions – open air tour); Around The World in 80 Days (Brute Farce – tour); Hell is Empty and All the Devils are Here (Colchester Mercury Theatre Community Acting Company);
Around the World in 80 Days (Nuffield Southampton Youth Theatre), Grimm’s Lost Children (Hull Truck Inter@ct).
Designs at BOVTS: The Man of Mode – set (Circomedia) Anorak of Fire (The Alma Tavern); Machinal – costume (The Tobacco Factory).
Design Assistant: Ugly – Red Ladder (Designer Sara Perks), Depot and Under Milk Wood – Mercury Theatre Colchester (Designer Sara Perks); The Winter’s Tale -Schtanhaus/Headlong/Nuffield (Designer Miriam Nabarro); Cricket Bats Unite – Latitude Festival (Designer Beck Rainford); Various shows at Hull Truck 2007 – 2010 (Designers Pip Leckenby, Richard Foxton and Graham Kirk).
Contact Amy
Website: http://www.amyyardley.co.uk