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.

Upcoming design works include:

Wild Rose (Lyceum, Edinburgh), Mrs Warren’s Profession (West End), The Estate (National Theatre), Alizé (Cirque Du Soleil); Innocence (Met Opera)

Theatre works 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); 1984 (Broadway, West End/Headlong/Almeida);

Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, Romeo and Juliet, The Duchess of Malfi at the Almeida Theatre;

From 2014 to 2021 she was Associate designer of the Royal Court Theatre, London. During this time She created The Site, a temporary theatre space and installation with five curated plays written in response to provocations and the space itself. She designed spaces for many plays including 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 created an evolving weekly space for Open Court;

She also designed Next To Normal, 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); An American Clock (Old Vic); The Tempest (Donmar at Kings Cross); The Events (ATC and Young Vic); Disco Pigs and Sus (Young Vic), Blackta (costume design) also at the Young Vic Theatre; Our Ladies (also National Theatre and West End), 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); Cannibals and The Gate Keeper, Jubilee (Manchester Royal Exchange); 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).

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)

Representation

Simon Ash at NR1 Creatives