Niki Turner

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Niki won the ‘Victorian Green Room Award’ for her designs on RUSALKA for Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House last year, which also won the Helpmann Award for Best Opera (the equivalent of the UK’s Olivier Awards), directed by Olivia Fuchs.

 

CURRENT and FORTHCOMING PROJECTS include

LA TRAVIATA – Danish National Opera, director Olivia Fuchs

OTHER OPERA WORK INCLUDES

THE RAKE’S PROGRESS – Garsington Opera, director Olivia Fuchs

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM – at the ROH, Linbury again, director Olivia Fuchs
RIGOLETTO – Aarhus, Denmark, director Olivia Fuchs
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (costumes) - English National Opera, director Olivia Fuchs
MY FAIR LADY – opening in Aarhus and then on tour within Denmark, dirMark Clements
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM for the Royal Opera House Linbury, director Olivia Fuchs
DON GIOVANNI for Opera North, director Olivia Fuchs
CHORUS! - Welsh National Opera, director David Pountney
CHEREVICHKI for Garsington Opera, director Olivia Fuchs
RUSALKA at Opera North, director Olivia Fuchs
SARKA and OSUD for Garsington Opera, director Olivia Fuchs
LA TRAVIATA- English Touring Opera, director Olivia Fuchs
L’AMORE INDUSTRIOSO – Holland Park Opera, director Sarah Alexander
CARMEN - Holland Park Opera, director Henk Schut

 

OTHER RECENT THEATRE includes
CYRANO DE BERGERAC – Bristol Old Vic, director Simon Reade
ORESTES – Shared Experience, director Nancy Meckler
THREE TALL WOMEN – Oxford Playhouse, director Irina Brown
A PASSAGE TO INDIA - Shared Experience UK tour, Cork & New York, dir Nancy Meckler
GONE TO EARTH - Shared Experience including Lyric Hammersmith, dir Nancy Meckler
A PASSAGE TO INDIA – Shared Experience including Riverside Studios, Nancy Meckler
KING HEDLEY II - Tricycle & Birmingham co-production, director Paulette Randall

ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
ISLAND PRINCESS - and transfer to the Gielgud Theatre as part of the Jacobean season
director Gregory Doran
BRIXTON STORIES – director Roxanna Silbert
AS YOU LIKE IT (co-design with Kaffe Fassett) - director Gregory Doran
OROONOKO - director Gregory Doran

 

OTHER THEATRE IN LONDON INCLUDES
FURTHER THAN THE FURTHEST THING - Royal National Theatre & Tricycle, Tron &
Traverse - winner of a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival, director Irina Brown
TENDER - Hampstead Theatre & Birmingham Rep, director Anthony Clark
SPEAKING IN TONGUES - Hampstead & Derby Playhouse, director Mark Clements
THINGS FALL APART - Royal Court/WYP as part of LIFT & USA/UK tour, Chuck Mike
OUR BOYS – Donmar & Derby, director Jonathan Lewis

NO 1 TOURS
THE EXTERNAL – director Ezra and SOUL TRAIN – director Mark Clements

 

DERBY PLAYHOUSE
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (also Philadelphia USA), DANNY BOUNCING, WATCHING THE SAND FROM THE SEA, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, GRAPEVINE, LIPS TOGETHER TEETH APART and EXTREMITIES – all for Mark Clements and ADAM BEDE (also York Theatre Royal) for director Geoffrey Beevers.

 

WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE
THE BEATIFICATION OF AREA BOY (& European tour/Brooklyn Academy,Jude Kelly), THE WINSLOW BOY (& Birmingham Rep, director Gwenda Hughes), and SPEND SPEND SPEND, THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND, PILGERMANN and THE SNOW QUEEN

OXFORD STAGE COMPANY: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, JOHNNY BLUE and THE COMIC MYSTERIES - all for John Retallack

SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE
WALLFLOWERING (Gwenda Hughes) and THE ROVER, THE BANISHED CAVALIERS and
THE CRUCIBLE (all Jonathan Church)

 

OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES

EMBRYONIC DREAMS and YERMA for Chuck Mike - Edinburgh Festival OTHELLO (Gwenda Hughes) and HENCEFORWARD (Rob Swane) - New Vic Stoke ON THE PISTE - Tivoli, Dublin, director Graham Watts JUNK - Den Nationale Scene Norway, director John Retallack