Matthew Wright

Matthew Wright

Theatre Designer



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Matthew Wright                 Last updated October 2008

 

CURRENT and FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS
EVITA – Kenwright Ltd UK tour, directors Bill Kenwright and Bob Thompson
A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY – Salisbury Playhouse (autumn Season), director Philip Wilson

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES (costumes) – Coming into the West End following its previous run at Menier Chocolate Factory, director Terry Johnson

Other RECENT THEATRE

THEY ARE PLAYING OUR SONG – Chocolate Factory, director Fiona Laird

WHAT THE BUTLER SAW – Salisbury Playhouse, director Philip Wilson

SHADOWLANDS – West End with Charles Dance and Janie Dee, dir Michael Barker Cavan
THE GLASS MENAGERIE starring Jessica Lange - West End, director Rupert Goold
ALPHABETICAL ORDER – Salisbury Playhouse, director Philip Wilson
BLACKBIRD – Market Theatre of Johannesburg, director Jeremy Herrin
SPEAKING LIKE MAGPIES - Royal Shakespeare Company &West End, director Rupert Goold
for which he was nominated for the TMA Best Design Award
IN PRAISE OF LOVE - Minerva Theatre, Chichester Festival, director Philip Wilson
CLOUDS - on No. 1 Tour with Tara Fitzgerald & Lloyd Owen, director Jennie Darnell
LARKIN WITH WOMEN - West Yorkshire Playhouse, director Brian Brady
PRESENCE – Plymouth Theatre Royal, director Simon Stokes

 

Other LONDON THEATRE
ONE UNDER by Winsome Pinnock – Tricycle Theatre, director Jennie Darnell
ON THE CEILING by Nigel Planer – West End & Birmingham Rep, director Jennie Darnell
THE GREEN MAN – Bush Theatre & Theatre Royal Plymouth, director Simon Stokes
For Hampstead Theatre: U.S AND THEM and THE DEAD EYE BOY, both Jennie Darnell
For Kali Theatre Company: DEADEYE , new play by Amber Lone at Soho Theatre & Birmingham Rep, director Janet Steel; BELLS & CHAOS at Southwark Playhouse and Birmingham Rep (Door), directors Janet Steel and Poonam Brah and PAPER THIN, Janet Steel

 

Other work at BIRMINGHAM REP
BEHZTI (Janet Steel), GETTING TO THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN (Laurie Samson), SWAMP CITY (Ed Robson) and KATHARINE de SOUZA (Gwenda Hughes)

 

Other work at the NEW VIC THEATRE, STOKE
THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE, DANCING AT LUGHNASA, BROKEN GLASS, OFFICE SUITE and FOUR NIGHT IN KNARESBOROUGH (all Gwenda Hughes) and ALL THAT TROUBLE WE HAD (Laurie Samson)

 

THEATRE ROYAL, NORTHAMPTON
SUMMER LIGHTNING and ARCADIA - both directed by Rupert Goold

 

PALACE THEATRE, WATFORD
NEVILLE’S ISLAND and A TASTE OF HONEY (both Richard Beecham), THE DEEP BLUE SEA (Laurence Till), ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR (Laurie Samson) and CHARLEY’ S AUNT (also Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, Tim Luscombe)

 

SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE
AMY’S VIEW (& Theatre Royal Northampton, Natalie Wilson), CONFUSIONS (Danny Slater) and SUMMER LIGHTNING (& Theatre Royal Bath), THE END OF THE AFFAIR (& Bridewell) and HABEUS CORPUS all directed by Rupert Goold

 

THEATRE ROYAL, PLYMOUTH
ROYAL SUPREME, BLOOD RED SAFFRON YELLOW, MUSIK and THE IMPOSTER – all directed by Jennie Darnell

 

NORTHCOTT THEATRE, EXETER
CHARLEY’S AUNT and PRIVATE LIVES - both directed by Richard Beecham

 

Other THEATRE INCLUDES
MARNIE - Haymarket Basingstoke & Chester Gateway, director Sean O’Connor
OUR COUNTRY’S GOOD - Edinburgh Lyceum, director Caroline Hall
HAMLET - National Theatre Education staged in Brixton Prison, dir Stephen Powell
WOMAN IN MIND - Theatre Royal York, director Penny Ciniewicz
DRACULA - Cheltenham Everyman, director Penny Ciniewicz
TWELFTH NIGHT – Oxford Stage Company, director John Retallack
HAMLET - Oxford Stage Company, director John Retallack
ROMEO AND JULIET - Greenwich Theatre/tour, director Rupert Goold
POW! - Paines Plough, director Penny Ciniewicz

 

OPERA INCLUDES
II POMO D’ORO at the Batignano Opera Festival, director Rupert Goold
DON PASQUALE for Scottish Opera Go Round, director Cynthia Buchan

 

TELEVISION INCLUDES
costumes for SERIOUSLY FUNNY - Channel 4 Television.

Matthew trained at the Glasgow School of Art in textile design and won various awards including The Royal Society of Arts Young Designer, two awards for excellence in design from the Japanese Fashion Foundation and a traveling bursary to Milan as one of the best graduates of the year. After several years working as a textile designer, both freelance and as senior designer with Stoddard Sekers Ltd, he changed career to Theatre Design with the help of an Arts Council Trainee bursary at the Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich where productions included FOREIGN LANDS, SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, and UNDER MILK WOOD, SONG OF THE SEA, THE UNEXPECTED GUEST and SEASCAPE, a cycle of four plays for special needs schools.

 


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