Biography

Imogen Gulliford is a recent Theatre Design graduate from Nottingham Trent University.

She was the recipient of the Nottingham Playhouse Prize in 2022.  A partnership between The Nottingham Playhouse and Nottingham Trent University awarding the winner a paid contract to design the Nottingham Playhouse’s annual children’s Christmas performance.

Imogen believes that a stage design should not only relate to the performance, but make its own independent and powerful statement, allowing it to resonate with the spectators and create an immersive, atmospheric world for the performance. She is determined to make the theatre world a more sustainable space.

Set and Costume Design credits include: Goldilocks and The Three Bears (Nottingham Playhouse 2022/touring Nottingham venues 2023), The Tin Can People (Nottingham College 2022).

No matter how hard she tries, Goldilocks can’t sit still. She just wants to dance but where she’s from, it’s forbidden. Unable to keep her toes from tap tap tapping, she has no option but to make her great escape.

She runs through busy cityscapes and frosty beaches until she reaches a magical forest and a home like none she’s ever known. But what happens when a family of bears return to find that someone has made a right old mess of their lair?

Goldilocks and the Three Bears is a pop-tastic dance-party of an adventure exploring friendship, home and daring to share. With music, magic and plenty of opportunities to join in along the way, the show is ‘just right’ for little humans aged 3–8 and their grown ups.