Paul Wills

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CURRENT and FORTHCOMING PROJECTS INCLUDE
SEE HOW THEY RUN – Royal Exchange Theatre, director Sarah Frankcom

MACBETH – Royal Exchange, director Matthew Dunster

MOST RECENT WORK INCLUDES

RUSALKA – English Touring Opera, director James Conway and Tom Daley

CRAVE, SUCH A BEAUTIFUL VOICE IS SAYEDA’S and THE SUIT – Young Vic, Young People’s Participation Programme, director Matthew Dunster

PORNOGRAPHY – Birmingham Rep and Traverse Theatre, director Sean Holmes

THE FRONTLINE – Globe Theatre, director Matthew Dunster

OVERSPILL (also Soho Theatre transfer), director Tim Roseman and INPARENTHESIS, director Róisín McBrinn, in the METAMORPHOSIS 08 PROJECT – Churchill Theatre Bromley with ATG
TESTING THE ECHO - Out of Joint tour including a run at the Tricycle Theatre, London, director Matthew Dunster
THE MAN WHO HAD ALL THE LUCK – Donmar Warehouse and short Uk tour, Sean Holmes, M.E.N Award Nomination for Best Visiting Production
CRESTFALL – Theatre 503, director Róisín McBrinn
THE CHANGELING (set) - English Touring Theatre, director Stephen Unwin, M.E.N Award Nomination for Best Visiting Production
WE THE PEOPLE – The Globe Theatre, director Charlotte Westernra
PROMETHEUS BOUND - Classic Stage Company, New York and previously at the Sound Venue, director James Kerr
TRACY BEAKER GETS REAL – Nottingham Playhouse & currently on UK tour, David Newman
THE MAGIC FLUTE - National Theatre of Palestine, Bethlehem & Ramallah, director Sam West
SLEEPING BEAUTY – Landmark productions at the Helix, Dublin, director Róisín McBrinn
LITTLE VOICE – Watermill Theatre, director Tom Daley
SWEETNESS AND BADNESS – Welsh National Opera’s Max project, director Jonathan Munby
A NUMBER – Sheffield Crucible Studio & Minerva Studio, Chichester with Timothy & Samuel
West, director Jonathan Munby

 

And PREVIOUSLY:-

The Donmar Warehouse
THE CUT – Donmar & tour, Michael Grandage, TMA Award Best Touring production

Sheffield Crucible
GLADIATOR GAMES - Crucible & Theatre Royal Stratford East, director Charlotte Westernra
BLUE/ORANGE – director Kathy Burke
BATINA AND THE MOON - Crucible Studio Theatre, director Karen Simpson

and:-

TOTAL ECLIPSE – The Menier Chocolate Factory, director Paul Miller
A MODEL GIRL – Greenwich Theatre, director Ruth Carney
MOTHER COURAGE (set) – ETT, director Stephen Unwin
BREATHING CORPSES – Royal Court Upstairs, director Anna Mackmin
THE FIELD – Tricycle Theatre, director Róisín McBrinn
Triple bill of Pinter Plays: A KIND OF ALASKA, A SLIGHT ACHE and PRECISELY at the Gate Theatre Notting Hill, directed by Clare Lovett and Thea Sharrock
INVISIBLE MOUNTAINS – National Theatre Education, director Tom Daley
MAMMALS – Bush Theatre and on UK tour, director Anna Mackmin
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE – Theatr Clwyd, director Nikolai Foster
OLIVER! - Hereford, director Nikolai Foster
A THOUSAND YARDS - Southwark Playhouse, director Róisín McBrinn
REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT - Arcola, director Róisín McBrinn
GOMPERS - Arcola, director Róisín McBrinn
CAR THIEVES - The Door, Birmingham Rep, director Paul Jepson
THE MAIDS TRAGEDY - White Bear, director Clare Lovette
THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT - the Other Place: RSC, director Tom Daley

 

Work as an Associate Designer

to Christopher Oram on GUYS AND DOLLS at the Piccadilly Theatre and on WORLD MUSIC at the Donmar Warehouse & Sheffield Crucible.

 

Work as an Assistant Designer

to Christopher Oram on GRAND HOTEL, HENRY IV, CALIGULA, THE VORTEX and PRIVATES ON PARADE at the Donmar Warehouse; DON CARLOS and THE TEMPEST (also West End), A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM and RICHARD III at the Sheffield Crucible; POWER at the Cottesloe, RNT and OLEANNA in the West End.

to Stephen Brimson Lewis on OTHELLO, KING JOHN, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE TAMER TAMED, ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING at the RSC and on A CHORUS LINE and HIGH SOCIETY at the Sheffield Crucible.

Qualifications 2:1 BA (Hons) Theatre Design at Bretton Hall, Leeds