theatre and performance design
EMAIL: natalielj28@gmail.com WEB: www.nataliejohnsondesign.co.uk
ACHIEVEMENTS
Recipient of The Maria Bjornson Design Bursary at The National Theatre 2023-2024
Creative Associate at Jermyn St Theatre
2023-2024
Winner of the 2017 Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Prize for Stage Design
EDUCATION
1st Class Honours BA (Hons) Theatre and Performance Design | The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts | 2017
Carbon Literacy Training | 2023
Prevent for Practitioners | 2021
Mental Heath Awareness | Applause For Thought | 2020
SKILLS
Scale model making | AutoCAD | SketchUp | Technical drawing | Photoshop | Domestic and industrial sewing | Scenic art | Costume sourcing | Set dressing | Props sourcing | Fabric dyeing and breaking down | Puppetry
2024
Barcelona | Dir. Lynette Linton | Duke of York's Theatre | Associate Designer to Frankie Bradshaw
Why Am I So Single | Dir. Lucy Moss | Garrick Theatre | Associate Designer to Moi Train
Bellringers | Dir. Jessica Lazar | Roundabout, Paines Plough & Hampstead Theatre
London Tide | Dir. Ian Rickson | Lyttelton Theatre, NT | Asst. Designer to Bunny Christie
Bacon | Dir. Matthew Iliffe | SoHo Playhouse | New York
The Good John Proctor | Dir. Anna Ryder | Jermyn St Theatre
2023
Beans (R&D) | Dir. Kirsty Patrick Ward | National Theatre New Works Studio
Dumbledore Is So Gay | Dir. Tom Wright | Southwark Playhouse
Rupture | Dir. Rachel Glover | Open Clasp Theatre Company | HMP Low Newton/West End Women and Girls Centre | Newcastle upon Tyne
Babel | Dir. Lucy Sheen | The Andrew Lloyd Webber (costume)
Blueprints Museum | Dir. Grace O'Keefe | MOCA | London
Would You Adam and Eve It? | Dir. Andy Gardiner and Donna Lennard, Society of Strays | The John Marley Centre | Newcastle upon Tyne
2022
Pomona | Dir. Emma Baggott | Carne Studio, LAMDA
Super Human | Dir. Donnacadh O’Briain | The New Diorama Theatre
Divine | Dir. Tristan Finn-Aiduenu | The Andrew Lloyd Webber Theatre (costume)
Last Easter | Dir. Tinuke Craig | Orange Tree Theatre | Associate Designer to Hannah Wolfe
Bacon | Dir. Matthew Iliffe | Finborough Theatre
2021
Very Special Guest Star | Dir. Rikki Beadle-Blair | Omnibus Theatre
Flinch | Dir. Gemma Aked-Priestly | UK Tour
Dumbledore Is So Gay | Dir. Tom Wright | The Pleasance Theatre
39 & Counting | Dir. Gemma Aked-Priestly | Park Theatre
John & Jen | Dir. Guy Retallack | Southwark Playhouse
Macbeth | Dir. Ben May | Theatre Peckham
Moonfleece | Dir. Gemma Aked-Priestly | The Mill Arts Centre
Tiger County | Dir. Josh Roche | The Mill Arts Centre
2020
The Rage of Narcissus | Dir. Daniel Goldman | The Pleasance Theatre
2019
The Shadow | Chor. Anthony Missen & Company Chameleon | HOME MCR & UK Tour
Bluebeard | Dir. Jack Cooper | Alphabetti Theatre
Tick, Tick... BOOM! | Dir. Guy Retallack | Bridge House Theatre
Everything Is Absolutely Fine | Dir. Valentina Ceschi | The Lowry | Associate Designer to Emma Bailey
Catching Comets | Dir. Piers Black | UK Tour
Twelfth Night | Dir. Guy Retallack | Bridge House Theatre
Mydidae | Dir. Laura Woodward | Hope Mill Theatre
2018
Striking 12 | Dir. Oliver Kaderbhai | Union Theatre
Forgotten 遗忘 | Dir. Kim Pearce | Arcola Theatre and Theatre Royal Plymouth | Associate Designer to Emma Bailey
Putting It Together | Dir. Bronagh Lagan | Hope Mill Theatre
Eris | Dir. Robbie Taylor Hunt | Bunker Theatre
To Anyone Who Listens | Dir. Atri Banerjee | Hen & Chickens
The Wasp | Dir. Ben Power | Hope Mill Theatre
Othello | Dir. Gemma Bodinetz | Liverpool Everyman
The Big I Am | Dir. Nick Bagnall | Liverpool Everyman | Associate Designer to Jocelyn Meall & Molly Lacey Davies
A Clockwork Orange | Dir. Nick Bagnall | Liverpool Everyman | Associate Designer to Jocelyn Meall & Molly Lacey Davies
Paint Your Wagon | Dir. Gemma Bodinetz | Liverpool Everyman | Associate Designer to Jocelyn Meall & Molly Lacey Davies
MODEL MAKING
Basia Bińkowska | Watch On The Rhine | Donmar Warehouse | 2022
Hannah Wolfe | Various
Rosie Elnile | Various
Max Johns | Various