About

Liz is a designer for performance based in Kingston-upon-Thames, where she has a studio at FusionARTS. She grew up in Liverpool and often works in the North West - especially at Theatre by the Lake where she began her career as a trainee and has designed nine of the theatre’s summer rep seasons.

Much of Liz’s work has been for non-traditional, open, theatre spaces - especially in-the-round and traverse. She has particular experience of designing plays in repertoire, creating designs that are effective in performance but also function practically to enable quick turnarounds and storage. She has also applied these skills to designing touring productions, most recently for Townsend Theatre.

Liz has enjoyed long-term collaborations with directors and theatre companies. Some of her favourite projects have included: ‘Wallflowering’, directed by Stefan Escreet; ‘The Glass Menagerie’ directed by Ian Forest; ‘Elektra’ (in the translation by poet Anne Carson) with Mary Papadima and ‘Rouse Ye Women’ a folk opera created by Townsend Theatre.

Liz works as an oral history interviewer for National Life Stories and is currently Lead Researcher on the British Library’s new web resource, Voices of British Theatre Design, featuring essays and audio interviews, many of which Liz recorded for the PhD she completed in 2009. Voices of British Theatre Design will be launching in Autumn 2021. 

Liz is on the committee of the Society of British Theatre Designers, and has worked with them on events, surveys and evidence-gathering during Covid-19. She is part of the Society’s Comms Team and is responsible for editing the monthly email newsletter, SBTD News.