Chloe Lamford Studio

Chloe Lamford Studio

J U L I E A stark and cold steel kitchen, reminiscent of a mausoleum or mortuary holds the action. Automated doors can burst open, and evolve into real cupboards or empty portals. The space floods like a sinister dream. Produced by International

Julie

We lowered the whole stage at the Royal Court into the basement for this production, and made a huge scaffold sculpture in the void, within which there was pinned an abstract room space. Produced by Royal Court Theatre 2017 Writer: Guillermo C

Victory Condition and B

D E A T H O F A S A L E S M A N A derelict dreamspace, where Willy Lohman’s lost hopes and memories collide, conjured into reality before our eyes. Childhood relics lie in the earth around the space, a small tree attempting to grow from the

Death of a Salesman

N E X T T O N O R M A L Set + Costume design An architectural dollshouse holds space for Diana’s grief and mentally delicate landscape, a band lives in the upstairs rooms causing synapses to fizzle and interrupt her troubled mind with Tom Kit

Next To Normal

H E R M É S M A I S O N 1 6 6 C E L E B R A T I O N Hermés threw an imaginative and joyful celebration for the launch of their incredible new space Maison 166 in London. We designed thematic theatrical pavilions and a finale extravaganza to s

HERMÉS

Cirque du Soleil ALIZÉ - Official Trailer

ALIZÉ / CIRQUE DU SOLEIL

I N N O C E N C E Kaija Sariaaho’s beautiful opera is opening at the Met Opera in New York in April. We made this piece in lockdown in 2020 and it keeps touring the world, am so proud of it The set is a building that revolves throughout the p

Innocence

We transformed the tiny theatre at the Royal Court upstairs into a brutal diorama full of barren earth. Needing a sense of poetry, we made our own cyclorama by pushing smoke into a sealed glass back wall, making a light installation of transformativ

Gun Dog

O P H E L I A S Z I M M E R An exploration of Ophelia’s journey through Hamlet, we watched Ophelia’s room and her near silent journey through the play. We deconstructed Millais’ romantic portrait of her death, flooding her bedroom, layering her

Ophelias Zimmer

P H A E D R A A rotating glass box contains the action, allowing us a voyeuristic view into Phaedras spinning demise. Each of the five acts of the play gave us a totally new set inside the box with rapid scene changes made by an incredible crew in

Phaedra

H E X E N J A G D (The Crucible) The young women of the play set the stage on fire. They are imprisoned in a space above a courtroom where the play is put on trial in an adaptation by Robert Icke. Produced by Theater Basel January 2019 Direction

Hexenjagd

L ’ O R F E O Claudio Monteverdi Slow moving black mountains dominate a barren black landscape. Hell is portrayed as a minimalist steel space floating in the darkness. Produced by Zurich Opera 2024 Conductor:   Ottavio Dantone Direct

Orfeo

T H E C A N E Set and costume design Disrupting architecture. An abstract room, impossibly tall, is slowly overtaken by the secrets of the play. The ceiling creeps lower revealing the grim attic above, seemingly crushing the patriarch at th

The Cane

B R I T N E Y O R G O O F Y A series of fantasy backdrops collage, collide and collapse through the performance. An array of statues and plinths reside amongst fantasties from seven young people, three fashion models and a priest. The juxtapos

Britney or Goofy

The Antipodes / By Annie Baker The Dorfman at the National Theatre, London November 2019 + Direction Annie Baker and Chloe Lamford Lighting Design Natasha Chivers Sound Design Tom Gibbons PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY MANUEL HARLAN

The Antipodes

Hilary and Clinton by Lucas Hnath Golden Theater, Broadway April 2019 + Direction Joe Mantello Lighting Hugh Vanstone

Hilary And Clinton

A space where language, form, the body and instructions are the materials and where both artists and audience were invited to rethink how we create, present, and watch plays. This series of works was an experiment, exploring performance through lan

THE SITE

TBC TV

Show Room An installation commissioned for the Great Arch Hall at Somerset House, London

SHOW ROOM / INSTALLATION

Hello Darkness

CUTE EXHIBITION // SOMERSET HOUSE

CUTE / EXHIBITION

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof / By Tennessee Williams Almeida Theatre, London December 2024 + Direction Rebecca Frecknall Lighting Design Lee Curran Sound Design Carolyn Downing Costume Moi Tran PRODUCTION PHOTOS BY MARC BRENNER

Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

The Unscene These are the incidental scenarios and imagined narratives of inanimate objects played out in the offstage dust and the dark, away from the intense reality of a performance. The protagonists are the discarded scenery and props who fi

the unscene

Het Hamiltoncomplex

Het Hamiltoncomplex

Pity / By Rory Mullarkey Jerwood Theatre Downstairs at The Royal Court, London July 2018 + Direction: Sam Pritchard Lighting: Anna Watson Sound: Pete Malkin Choreography : Sasha Milavic Davies

Pity

Amadeus

The Handmaid's Tale

Alcina

John / By Annie Baker The Dorfman at the National Theatre, London January 2018 + Direction  James Macdonald Lighting Design Peter Mumford

John

ATMEN (Lungs)

Atmen

The Twits

Theodora