About
Chloe Lamford is an internationally renowned stage designer, working in theatre, opera, music and installation. She trained in Theatre Design at Wimbledon School of Art. She received the Arts Foundation Fellowship for Design for Performance 2013.
CURRENT/FUTURE PRODUCTIONS:
Upcoming design work includes Julie (International Theatre Amsterdam); Cyrano de Bergerac (Comedy Francaise); Orfeo (Opera Zurich);
Next To Normal (West End + Donmar Warehouse)
Recent designs include Theodora (Royal Opera House);
Designs for theatre include:
Chloe co-directed and designed The Antipodes with Annie Baker for the National Theatre. Other productions for the National Theatre include Phaedra, Othello, John, Amadeus, Rules for Living, The World of Extreme Happiness. Designs include Hilary and Clinton(Broadway);Get Up Stand UP! The Bob Marley Musical in London’s West End; Hexenjagd (Theater Basel); Not The End Of The World; Shakespeare’s Last Play; Atmen and Ophelias Zimmer (Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin); De Maiden (International Theatre Amsterdam); John, Amadeus,Rules for Living, The World of Extreme Happiness (National Theatre); 1984 (Broadway, West End/Headlong/Almeida);The Duchess of Malfi at the Almeida Theatre; Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (West End, National Theatre and National Theatre
Scotland); She created The Site, at the Royal Court Theatre, a temporary theatre space and installation with five curated plays written in response
to provocations and the space itself. She designed spaces for Is God Is , Shoe Lady, The Cane, Pity, Gun Dog, Victory Condition, B , Road,
Unreachable, The Twits, God Bless The Child, How to Hold Your Breath, Circle Mirror Transformation, Teh Internet is Serious Business, 2071 and Open
Court for the Royal Court Theatre; Teenage Dick and Europe (Donmar Warehouse); Het Hamiltoncomplex; Truth or Dare, Britney or Goofy, Nacht und Nebel,
Jesus Christ or Superstar (Hetpaleis Antwerp and LIFT festival); The American Clock (Old Vic); The Tempest (Donmar at Kings Cross); Salt, Root and
Roe (Donmar Warehouse); The Events (ATC and Young Vic); Disco Pigs and Sus (Young Vic), Blackta (costume design) also at the Young Vic Theatre; My
Shrinking Life, Appointment with the Wicker Man, Knives in Hens (National Theatre Scotland); Praxis Makes Perfect, The Radicalisation of Bradley
Manning (National Theatre Wales); Boys (HeadlongTheatre); Cannibals and The Gate Keeper, Jubilee (Manchester Royal Exchange); Ghost Story (Sky Arts
Live Drama), Britannicus (Wilton’s Music Hall), The History Boys (Sheffield Crucible), My Romantic History (Crucible, Sheffield/ Bush), Joseph K, The
Kreutzer Sonata (Gate), Songs from a Hotel Bedroom (Linbury Studio ROH + Tour), It Felt Empty… (Clean Break), Everything Must Go! and This Wide Night
(Soho Theatre), The Mother Ship, How to Tell the Monsters from the Misfits (Birmingham Rep), Small Miracle (Tricycle/ Mercury, Colchester-Winner Best
Design UK Theatre awards).
Designs for opera + music include:
Innocence directed by Simon Stone (Aix Festival, ROH); Theodora and Rusalka (Royal Opera House); The Handmaids Tale (Royal Danish Opera); La Boheme (ENO)
The Song Project (Royal Court Theatre); Mens (Visual direction for singer Wende Snijders);Deep England (Gazelle Twin X Nyx Choir); Miranda (Opera
Comique, Paris); Ariadne Auf Naxos, Alcina (set), Pelleas and Melisande (costumes) (Aix-En-Provence Festival); The Little Sweep and Let's Make An
Opera at Malmo Opera House, Sweden;The Magic Flute (English Touring Opera), War and Peace (Scottish Opera/ RCS), Cunning Little Vixen, Orpheus in the
Underworld (Royal College of Music) and La Calisto (Early Opera Company).
CONTEMPORARY ART COLLABORATIONS:
TBC TV (installation created with Mel Brimfield and Ewan Jones Morris, Somerset House); Show Room (Somerset House, Great Arch Hall); Echo Chamber
(installation, Royal College of Art); Absence and Hope (Collaboration with performer/ writer Rachel Mars, Tate Modern), Wish You Were Here! (Somerset
House Studios); The Gulch (Bedwyr Williams at The Curve , Barbican)
