Ellen Cairns - Set and Costume Designer
Ellen Cairns trained at Glasgow School of Art and the Slade. She received the Arts Council Bursary in 1981 and subsequently became resident designer at Liverpool Playhouse during the Artistic Directorship of Chris Bond, Willy Russell, Alan Bleasdale and Bill Morrison.
She became a freelance designer in 1989 during which time has designed over 50 productions notably “Moon on a Rainbow Shawl” Almeida, “Fences” Garrick Theatre, “Amen Corner” Bristol Old Vic, “Blood Brothers” Tel Aviv, “Carmen” Sweden, “Dragon Can’t Dance” Stratford East, “Elvira Madigan” Sweden, “Gods Are Not To Blame” Riverside Studios, “Into The Woods” Sweden “Jubilee” Stockholm, “King Lear” and “Resurrections” Cochrane Theatre, “Poppy” and “Moll Flanders” Half Moon, “Nicholas Nickleby” and “Angels in America” Estoria, “Othello” Drill Hall, “Porgy and Bess” Venice, ”Sweeney Todd” Theatre Clwyd “Trafford Tanzi” Mermaid Theatre, “Fiddler on the Roof”Nicholas Nickleby StockholmA Little Shop of Horrors Estonia..
She has been associated with the award winning Talawa Theatre Company where she designed several productions and her designs for “King Lear” is currently on display at the Theatre Museum London. She is a visiting tutor in Theatre Design at Central Saint Martins College.
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