Mark also has a great selection of photographs available on his own new website: www.markbailey.org.uk

CURRENT and FORTHCOMING PROJECTS

NOISES OFF –Theatr Clwyd, director Terry Hands
GREAT EXPECTATIONS – Theatr Clwyd Studio and Tour, director Tim Baker

MACBETH - Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (2009), director Barbara Gaines

His designs for THE CUCKOO’S NEST  at Theatr Clwyd were chosen as part of the British entry to the Prague Quadrennial last year

MOST RECENT WORK INCLUDES:-

PRIVATES ON PARADE – West Yorkshire Playhouse / Birmingham Rep, director Ian Brown

LEGAL FICTIONS – West End and Bath Theatre Royal UK tour, director Christopher Morahan

THE SUICIDE –Theatr Clwyd studio, director Barry Kyle

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM – Theatr Clwyd, director Tim Baker
THE SNOW QUEEN – English National Ballet tour & Coliseum - chor Michael Corder
RENT – West End, director William Baker
RISE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF MAHAGONNY – (set) LA Opera, director John Doyle
MELODY ON THE MOVE - English National Ballet (revival) - Sadlers Wells, Michael Corder
HAMLET – Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, USA, director Terry Hands
MACK AND MABEL – West End & previously at the Watermill Theatre & UK tour
- nominated for a TMA Best Musical Award, director John Doyle
‘Varii Capricci’ for THE WRIGHT OCCASION – in celebration of Peter Wright’s 80th birthday
THE RIVALS – Bath Theatre Royal and UK tour, director Christopher Morahan
and he was asked to ‘design a Christmas table’ for the Times Saturday Style magazine, last Xmas

Other MUSICAL THEATRE & DANCE work includes
for the Watermill Theatre: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (TMA Best Musical Award); THE GONDOLIERS (also Covent Garden & West End transfer, TMA Best Musical Award); IRMA LA DOUCE (TMA Best Musical Award nomination); CABARET (TMA Best Musical Award nomination); CARMEN (also Covent Garden Festival); PIAF and CINDERELLA AND THE ENCHANTED SLIPPER, A STAR DANCED and TEN CENTS A DANCE (also Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre) - all directed by John Doyle
for Guildhall School of Music and Drama: BYE BYE BIRDIE, BONNIE AND CLYDE, BABES IN ARMS, RAGS, GRAND HOTEL (all Martin Connor) and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, THREE SISTERS (both Wyn Jones)
and :
RAT PACK CONFIDENTIAL – West End/Nottingham Playhouse, director Giles Croft
THE THREEPENNY OPERA - National Theatre and Mobile tour, director Tim Baker
OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR! – Clwyd Theatr Cymru & New Theatre Cardiff, Tim Baker
BABES IN ARMS - Cardiff International Festival of Musical Theatre, director Martin Connor
IOLANTHE - D’Oyly Carte at The Savoy Theatre, director Martin Connor

And for Theatr Clwyd for whom he is also Terry Hands’ Associate Artist: OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR!, OF MICE AND MEN, THE WAY IT WAS (& tour), THE DRUID’S REST, HOBSON’S CHOICE, WAITING FOR GODOT, SILAS MARNER (& tour), ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST (& tour), HARD TIMES (& tour), PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG DOG, the trilogy THE RAPE OF THE FAIR COUNTRY, HOSTS OF REBECCA and SONG OF THE EARTH, A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE (& tour - Liverpool Daily Post ‘Best Production’), TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (& tour, Manchester Evening News ’Best Visiting Production’ and Liverpool Daily Post ‘Best Production’) - all directed by Tim Baker; AN IDEAL HUSBAND, PRESENT LAUGHTER and HAYFEVER (dir Christopher Morahan); STONE CITY BLUE (dir Ed Thomas); OLEANNA (dir Emma Lucia); CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL, BRASSED OFF, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST (& New Theatre Cardiff), KING LEAR, BLITHE SPIRIT, FOUR SEASONS, BETRAYAL, THE RABBIT, PRIVATE LIVES, PLEASURE AND REPENTANCE - all directed by Terry Hands.

Other productions at NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE
TO REACH THE CLOUDS, DOUBLE INDEMNITY, THE DAY THAT KEVIN CAME, ETHEL AND ERNEST, POLYGRAPH, THE BOY WHO FELL INTO A BOOK and WONDERFUL TENNESSEE - all directed by Giles Croft

Other LONDON THEATRE INCLUDES
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST - Old Vic and Toronto, director Terry Hands
ENTERTAINING MR. SLOANE - Greenwich (Jeremy Sams) and tour (John David)
PEACE IN OUR TIME - Richmond, director Wyn Jones
A JUDGEMENT IN STONE - Lyric Hammersmith, director Neil Bartlett
THE WINSLOW BOY - The Gielgud, director Wyn Jones
costumes for WHICH WITCH - Piccadilly Theatre, director Piers Haggard
PRESENT LAUGHTER - Aldwych and Wyndhams, director Richard Olivier

OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES
For The Gate Theatre, Dublin: THE DOUBLE DEALER (Jonathan Miller) and THE SEAGULL (Lindsay Posner).
For York Theatre Royal: YORK CYCLE OF MYSTERY PLAYS (1996), A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE, MACBETH, INTO THE WOODS (TMA Best Musical nomination), all John Doyle
and NORTHANGER ABBEY (Tim Luscombe).
For West Yorkshire Playhouse: THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS (Matthew Warchus) and ARMS AND THE MAN (John Harrison).
and:
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Oxford Playhouse, Erica Whyman); VOTE DIZZY! (Soho Theatre, Philip Breen); ARTURO UI (Glasgow Citz, Phillip Breen); HADRIAN VII (Chichester Festival, Terry Hands); THE PRETENDERS (The National Theatre of Norway, Terry Hands); THE LADY VANISHES (No 1 tour, Martin Connor); MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS (Bristol Old Vic,Matthew Warchus)

Other OPERA CREDITS include
LADDERS AND SNAKES - Opera North, director Caroline Gawn
ARIADNE AUF NAXOS - Broomhill Festival, 1997 Maggio Musicale Florence
and Opera de Lausanne, director Jonathan Miller
IL MAESTRO DI CAPELLA, THE TELEPHONE, SUZANNA'S SECRET – Buxton, Stuart Hopps
WHAT PRICE CONFIDENCE? and FALSE LOVE, TRUE LOVE - Almeida Opera Festival
- director Caroline Gawn

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Mark has also designed BROKEN LIVES, a drama documentary, for the BBC Year of the Family.

Mark read Drama at Hull University before studying Theatre Design at Croydon College of Art.