Johanna Town

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CURRENT and FORTHCOMING PROJECTS

MR BERRY – Royal Exchange, director Braham Murray
FAT PIG – Trafalgar Studios/Comedy Theatre, director Neil LaBute
THE TRAGEDY OF THOMAS HOBBES – Royal Shakespeare Company, director Elizabeth Freestone, opening at Wilton’s Music Hall

PHILIP PULLMAN’S THE SCARECROW AND HIS SERVANT – Southwark Playhouse / Poonamelle Productions, directed by Simon Reade

 

OTHER RECENT LIGHTING DESIGN WORK:-

for the Royal Court: (for whom she was also Head of Lighting until recently):
FACES IN THE CROWD (Upstairs, dir Clare Lizzimore); RHINOCEROS (Dominic Cooke); THE ARSONISTS, WAY TO HEAVEN (Ramin Gray); MY CHILD (Sacha Wares); RAINBOW KISS and THE WOMAN BEFORE (both Richard Wilson); BACK OF BEYOND (Annie Castledine); A GIRL IN A CAR WITH A MAN (Joe Hill-Gibbons); THE WINTERLING (Ian Rickson); LIVE LIKE PIGS (Guildhall School/Royal Court 50th Anniversary (Christian Burgess); O GO MY MAN and TALKING TO TERRORISTS (Out of Joint/Royal Court, Max Stafford Clark); FOOD CHAIN (Anna Mackmin).
In New York:- MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE (New York and previously West End, Royal
Court and Galway Festival, director Alan Rickman) and GUANTANAMO (Broadway, West
End, Tricycle, directors Nicolas Kent & Sacha Wares)
for Out of Joint: KING OF HEARTS (at Hampstead, Max Stafford Clark & Ramin Gray) and
THE PERMANENT WAY (at the National and UK & Australia tours); THE
OVERWHELMING (National Theatre and tour); MACBETH (world tour, all directed by Max
Stafford Clark
for the Royal Exchange, Manchester: THE GLASS MENAGERIE (and Bath Theatre Royal tour) and THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE (both Braham Murray), ALL THE ORDINARY ANGELS and SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION (both Michael Buffong).
for Theatre 503: THE FINAL SHOT (Tim Roseman) and SHIP OF FOOLS (Toby Frow)
and:

THE SECRET MARRIAGE – Scottish Opera, director Harry Fehr

SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS – Arcola Theatre, director Bill Bryden

CINDERELLA -Scottish Opera Go Round and Scottish Opera on tour, director Harry Fehr

CITY OF ANGELS – Guildhall School, director Martin Connor

HELLO AND GOODBYE – Trafalgar Studios, director Paul Robinson

LAKEBOAT and PRAIRIE DU CHIEN – Mamet double bill at RADA, director Lindsay Posner
THE GLASSROOM – Hampstead Theatre, director Anthony Clark
THE HERBAL BED – Salisbury Playhouse, director Caroline Leslie
TREASURE ISLAND – Derby Playhouse, director Karen Hebden
LONDON CUCKOLDS – Guildhall School of Music and Drama, director Christian Burgess
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO - Classical Opera Company, director Jo Davies
TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD - Birmingham Rep and No 1 tour, director Michael Buffong
IN PRAISE OF LOVE - Minerva, Chichester Festival, director Philip Wilson
DEAD FUNNY – West Yorkshire Playhouse, director Matthew Lloyd

 

Other WEST END WORK
VIA DOLAROSA (Duchess Theatre, Stephen Daldry); TOP GIRLS (Aldwych & Oxford Touring Theatre, Thea Sharrock); FEELGOOD (Garrick & Hampstead, Max Stafford Clark); LITTLE MALCOLM & HIS STRUGGLE AGAINST THE EUNUCHS (West End & Hampstead, Denis Lawson) and BEAUTIFUL THING (Duke of Yorks, Donmar, Bush - Hettie Macdonald)

 

Other INTERNATIONAL and NEW YORK - BROADWAY AND OFF BROADWAY
ARABIAN NIGHTS (New Victory Theatre, Dominic Cooke); ROSE (Lyceum New York & RNT, Nancy Meckler); SHOPPING & FUCKING (Out of Joint, West End & World tour, Max Stafford Clark); OUR LADY OF SLIGO (OOJ & RNT, Max Stafford Clark); THE STEWARD OF CHRISTENDOM (OOJ at BAM, Sydney Festival & Royal Court, Max Stafford Clark)

 

Other work for the Royal Court:- UNDER THE WHALEBACK, WHERE DO WE LIVE, NIGHTINGALE & CHASE, I JUST STOPPED BY TO SEE THE MAN, MR KOLPERT, WOMEN LAUGHING TOAST (all directed by Richard Wilson); TERRORISM (Ramin Gray); CARYL CHURCHILL SHORTS, PALE HORSE, ASHES AND SAND (Ian Rickson); PLASTICINE, FUCKING GAMES, SPINNING INTO BUTTER, OTHER PEOPLE (Dominic Cooke); UNDER THE BLUE SKY (Rufus Norris); OUR LATE NIGHT (Caryl Churchill); NEVERLAND (Stephen Pimlott); THE 1 U LOVE (Tim Luscombe); HARRY AND ME (James Macdonald); THE EDITING PROCESS, THE KITCHEN, SEARCH AND DESTROY (Stephen Daldry); WAITING ROOM GERMANY (Mary Peate); PEACHES (James Macdonald); BABIES (Polly Teale), HUSH (Max Stafford Clark) and FAITH HEALER (Joe Dowling)

 

Other work for OUT OF JOINT (all Max Stafford Clark): SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER, A LAUGHING MATTER, HINTERLAND (National Theatre) and DUCK, SLIDING WITH SUZANNE (both Royal Court Upstairs); RITA, SUE AND BOB TOO/ A STATE AFFAIR (Soho); DRUMMERS; SOME EXPLICIT POLAROIDS (Ambassadors/Royal Court Upstairs); OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD (Young Vic), BLUE HEART (Traverse & Royal Court), THE POSITIVE HOUR (Hampstead), THREE SISTERS (Lyric Hammersmith & Royal Court) and ROAD (Royal Court)

 

Other work at THE ROYAL EXCHANGE, MANCHESTER: GHOSTS and THE MISFITS (Greg Hersov), RICHARD II (James Macdonald) and THE LODGER (Richard Wilson)

 

LIVERPOOL PLAYHOUSE: BRASSED OFF (& Birmingham Rep, Neil Birche),POPCORN, LES LIAISON DANGEREUSES and THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (all Robert Delamere), SHADOW OF A GUNMAN (Eric Standridge), CRIMES OF THE HEART (Kate Rowland), MACBETH and A TASTE OF HONEY (Ian Kellgren), MADAME MAO (Peter Oyston), THE BEAUX STRATAGEM (Tal Rubins)

 

Other PREVIOUS THEATRE: HOW LOVE IS SPELT (Bush Theatre, Julie Anne Robinson); HELEN OF TROY (ATC, Gordon Anderson); EAST COAST CHICKEN SUPPER (Traverse/Festival (Fringe First), Richard Wilson); SOMEONE WHO’LL WATCH OVER ME (Northampton, Toby Frow); THE DUMB WAITER (Oxford Playhouse, Douglas Hodge); BADNUFF and MR NOBODY (both Soho, Jonathan Lloyd); ID (Almeida & BBC 3, Nancy Meckler); A DOLL’S HOUSE (Southwark Playhouse, Thea Sharrock); JUSTIFYING WAR (Tricycle, Nicolas Kent), A MODERN DANCE FOR BEGINNERS (Soho, Jonathon Lloyd), AFORE NIGHT COMES (Theatr Clwyd, Dominic Cooke), SOLDIERS (The Co-Producers, Eric Standridge), CHARLEY’S AUNT (Watford Palace, Tim Luscombe), DISAPPEARED (Leicester Haymarket, Phyllis Nagy), CELESTINA (ATC, Nick Philippou), SALVATION (London Gay Theatre Co, Tim Luscombe), THE SNOW ORCHID (London Gay Theatre Co, Tim Luscombe), SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (Kent Opera, Hettie Macdonald), THE CHEESE SHOP (Pleasance Edinburgh, Maggie Norris), THE KNOCKY (Liverpool Everyman, Robert Delamere)

 

OPERA CREDITS INCLUDE:
TOBIAS AND THE ANGEL (Almeida Opera Festival, Kate Brown) and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO and OTTELLO (Nice Opera House, William Relton)

 

MUSIC THEATRE, LONDON
DIE FLEDERMAUS , LA BOHEME (& Amsterdam) - both Tony Britten and LA TRAVIATA, THE MAGIC FLUTE and THE POISONED CHALICE (all Nick Broadhurst)

 

OPERA 80
THE MERRY WIDOW and EUGENE ONEGIN (Wilfred Judd), THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (Stephen Unwin),THE ABDUCTION FROM SERAGLIO (Michael McCarthy).