Biography

Rebecca Ward is an award-winning costume and set designer with an MA (Dist.) in Costume Design for Performance from UAL.

She has designed costume and set for a number of fringe plays including a series of six plays in six weeks for Flywheel Repertory Company in 2025 and has worked as a production and costume designer on two short films including the upcoming The Last Man filmed on location in the Peak District. She also assisted designer Michael Taylor on Ukraine Unbroken at Arcola Theatre. Rebecca will work with Flywheel again this summer at Riverside Studios, designing five shows in five weeks.

Her attention to detail enriches characterisation and storytelling while always keeping the broader vision in mind. She is particularly interested in movement within set design and bringing her extensive knowledge of art history and working with artists into her costume designs.

Coming on board just a few weeks before opening, Rebecca designed and built six shows in six weeks for Flywheel’s inaugural Rep season at The Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington. With extremely tight budgets she delivered six dynamic and stylistically different productions – The Rover set in the festival de Gràcia in Barcelona, Romeo and Juliet in a boxing gym, a new play based on Hitchcock’s silent movie The Lodger, Lysistrata portraying women in rebellion across millennia, an agitprop style Faustus wit a moving library and Pygmalion where scene changes were instigated by the removal of huge sheets of paper.