David Farley

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CURRENT and FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC – Menier Chocolate Factory, director Trevor Nunn

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW  - Admiralspalast in Berlin, director Sam Buntrock

13 - Broadway and Goodspeed Musicals, USA, director Jeremy Sams

Awards and Nominations for SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE - New York
* David has just been nominated for the Tony Award for Costume Design, and he and Timothy Bird have been nominated for Set Design
* David and Timothy Bird won the Outer Critics Circle Award for ‘Outstanding Set Design (Play or Musical)’ and David was nominated for ‘Outstanding Costume Design (Play or Musical)’ along with an ‘Outstanding Revival of a Musical’ nomination
Awards and Nominations for SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE - West End
* David and Timothy Bird won the Olivier Award for Best Design at the Wyndhams (and Olivier Best Musical production)
* David and Timothy Bird won the Evening Standard Best Design Award
* and the Critics Circle Award for Best Design at the Menier Chocolate Factory
* David was listed in the Stage’s ‘100 to Watch’ in 2007

 

MOST RECENT PROJECTS INCLUDE

SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE – Roundabout Theatre, New York, Sam Buntrock
(see above for Awards and Nominations)

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (set) - Menier Chocolate Factory, director Terry Johnson

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS – Menier Chocolate Factory, director Matthew White
Whatsonstage Best Off West End Production nomination and transfer to the West End
TAKE FLIGHT – Menier Chocolate Factory, director Sam Buntrock
SWEENEY TODD - Gate Theatre, Dublin, director Selina Cartmell
CORPSE! – Salisbury Playhouse, director Philip Wilson
tick, tick, BOOM! – at the Menier Chocolate Factory originally and then in Los Angeles at the Rubicon Theatre and Coronet Theatre, directed by Scott Schwartz
THE LAST FIVE YEARS - Menier Chocolate Factory, director Matthew White
THE LEMON PRINCESS - The Caird Company at West Yorkshire Playhouse, dir Ruth Carney

 

OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES
THE LARAMIE PROJECT – Kit productions at Sound Theatre, director Ruth Carney
FRANKIE AND JOHNNY - Kit productions at Sound Theatre, director James Phillips
CROSSINGS - Script Cymri on tour (including Arcola & Edinburgh Traverse), Simon Harris
A LITTLE FIR TREE - Sheffield Crucible, director James Phillips
ZERO DEGREES AND DRIFTING devised with Unlimited Theatre - tour including WYP,
Bath Theatre Royal, Sheffield Crucible, The Traverse, director Jon Spooner
QUARTERMAINE’S TERMS - Northampton/Salisbury Playhouse, dir Simon Godwin
MACBETH - Sheffield Crucible Studio, adapted and director James Phillips
COULD IT BE MAGIC - for Unlimited Theatre at the Crucible, director Jon Spooner
JUST SO for Arts Educational
DEALER'S CHOICE - Theatr Clwyd, director Angus Jackson
THE SEAGULL - Theatre Royal Northampton, director Simon Godwin
SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO - Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, director Angus Jackson
OBSERVE THE SONS OF ULSTER MARCHING TOWARDS THE SOMME - Jericho
Productions at the Pleasance, director James Phillips

 

and SET DESIGN ONLY INCLUDES
WORKS ON CANVAS and HERE LIE HEDWIG AND STOLLER (Shunt at Arch 12A, Bethnal Green); THE DYBBUK (BAC) directed by Mark Rosenblatt which won the James Menzies-Kitchen Memorial Trust Award; TAMING OF THE SHREW and MACBETH (Oxford Uni Drama Society’s Japan tour including The Maytheatre, Osaka and The Globe Theatre, Tokyo).

As a Design Assistant:- to Peter McKintosh on THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (Duchess); JUST SO (Chichester); BRAND (Haymarket); PERICLES (RSC); BOSTON MARRIAGE (Donmar); THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, HALF A SIXPENCE (WYP); HONK! (UK tour); GUYS AND DOLLS (Sheffield Crucible); HONK - THE UGLY DUCKLING (RNT - Olivier) and THE HANDMAIDEN'S TALE (Royal Danish Opera House). As Asst to Christopher Oram on RICHARD III, EDWARD II, THE COUNTRY WIFE (Sheffield Crucible); THE MARRIAGE PLAY/FINDING THE SUN (RNT); ANATOL (Nottingham Playhouse); MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (Donmar) and A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Bristol Old Vic). As Asst to Hildegard Bechtler on DIE WALKURE (Scottish Opera);THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (film for the RNT). Assistant to William Dudley ALL MY SONS (RNT) and BLUE/ORANGE (RNT).

 

David has a BA (Hons) Degree in Theatre Design from Wimbledon School of Art and left in 1999 with a 1st class in Technical Arts Design. He also has a BTEC Foundation Studies in Art and Design from the Oxfordshire School of Art and Design.