Rae Smith
Set and Costume Design
Rae Smith’s recent theatre designs include Hansel & Gretle (The Globe); Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead (Complicité); A Doll’s House: Part 2 (Donmar); Kae Tempests’ Paradise and Translations (National Theatre); Uncle Vanya (Pinter Theatre: South Bank Sky Arts Award) and Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s) both Olivier nominated for set design; Girl From The North Country (US Tour, Belasco On Broadway, Public Theatre New York, Gielgud, Noël Coward Theatre and Old Vic Theatre); Barber Shop Chronicles (BAM, Roundhouse, National Theatre and world tour); The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (The Bridge and Leeds Playhouse); The Night Of The Iguana (Noel Coward); This House (The Garrick, National and UK tour) and Neil Bartlets’ Stella (Brighton Festival, Hoxton Hall and Holland Festival).
Other designs for Theatre include War Horse (Tony and Olivier Awards); WONDER.LAND, The Light Princess and Pillars of The Community (all National Theatre).
Opera includes Die Lustigen Weiber Von Windsor (Volsoper); Rigoletto (Opera North, Winner of Southbank Sky Arts Award for most Outstanding Opera); Nozzi De Figaro (Aix en Provence); PELLEAS AND MELLISANDE (Scottish Opera); Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci (Metropolitan Opera, New York); Terry Gilliam’s Benvenuto Cellini (ENO); Rusalka (Glyndebourne) and The Ring Cycle (Grand Prix winner for outstanding achievement in Opera, Opera Du Rhin, Strasbourg).
Dance includes The Tempest and Prince Of The Pagodas (Birmingham Royal Ballet) and The Rite Of Spring and Petrushka (Fabulous Beast).
Other work includes live drawing for War Horse in Concert with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall.
Future projects include designing Die Zauberflöte for the Nederlandse Reisopera and The Merry Wives of Windsor for Vienna Volksoper.
For further info: www.raesmith.co.uk