Nick Macliammoir [Lighting Designer]Nottingham |
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Originally from Northern Ireland, Nick MacLiammoir read chemistry at Bristol University before becoming a lighting designer. Work with AvonTouring Theatre Company and Perspectives led to two years as Resident Lighting Designer at the Albany Empire in London.. Shows in this period include A Prick Song for the New Leviathan by James Stock and On the Plastic by Julie Wilkinson, as well as collaborations with directors Heffie MacDonald and Claire Grove. In 1985 he formed the design partnership Scene with Jane Linz Roberts and in 1991 they moved to Cardiff to become Resident Designers at the Sherman Theatre. Designs there included Of Mice and Men, The Merchant of Venice, Under Milk Wood, The Dark is Rising and My Beautiful Laundrette. Freelance since 1993, his recent work has included Macbeth, Ghosts and Sleeping Beauty for the Sherman Theatre; Song from a Forgotten City, by Edward Thomas, for Y Cwmni, which toured to Bucharest and the Royal Court, and was redesigned for the Donmar Warehouse and the Melbourne International Festival; Copper Kingdom, a new musical for the Grand Theatre, Swansea; Epa Yn Y Parlwr Cefn, a new play by Sion Eirian for Dalier Syiw; Double Indemnity, a new adaptation by David Joss Buckley for Theatre CIwyd; Move Over Moriarty, for Lip Service; Bell Book and Candle, for the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch. International work includes; Le Scarpe D'Osso and Le Spose dell 'Albero, performance montages performed outdoors in San Miniato, Italy in both Italian and English, and.. produced by European Live Arts Network; Translations, by Brian Friel, performed and produced in Russian by Theatre on Podol, a Ukrainian company in Kiev, and directed by Alison Hindell. |
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