PHIL NEWMAN (Set & Costume Designer)
Since graduating in Theatre Design from Croydon College in 1999, Phil has designed a wide range of productions, from small- and medium-scale tours, through site-specific and devised projects, to main house shows.
These have included work for Impetuous Kinship (The Lost Thing), Heartbreak Productions (open-air tours of The Merchant of Venice and The Railway Children), Pursued by a Bear (You Don’t Kiss, Monogamy), Palkettostage (Italian tour of Treasure Island), SNAP Theatre (Funnybones), devised interactive projects for Ladder to the Moon and Trestle Theatre, and tours of Lifting the Mask and Black Atlas for London Shakespeare Workout.
His design for the internationally-acclaimed, award-winning production of John Retallack’s Hannah & Hanna (Time Out Critics Choice) has toured extensively in the UK and abroad (including British Council tours of India and the Philippines) since 2001.
Over the past seven years, Phil has designed eight community tours for Channel/Chalkfoot Theatre (including The Phoenix & the Carpet, The Sea Morgan’s Child, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - set to tour the UK this Autumn - and, most recently, Never Ever After) as well as several TIE tours, youth projects and an open-air Taming of the Shrew in the grounds of St Augustine’s Abbey in Canterbury. He has also designed settings for 14 productions at Leicester’s Little Theatre and costumes for The Way of the World (Pentameters) and The Dutch Courtesan (Wimbledon Studio).
Phil's ongoing collaboration with theatre director Olusola Oyeleye has so far produced the world premiere productions of Beverley Naidoo’s The Playground at Polka Theatre (Time Out Critics’ Choice), the critically-acclaimed Ma Joyce’s Tales from the Parlour at Oval House Theatre and, most recently, Call Mr Robeson at C Soco, in Edinburgh.
He has run several design-related workshops for and with students and young people, some as part of his 3 years as Practitioner-in-Residence in Croydon College’s Theatre Design department between 2004 & 2006.
Phil lives in Croydon.
Work
- 2007, Set & Costume Designer, The Lost Thing, Smirnoff Underbelly, Edinburgh (Impetuous Kinship)
- 2007, Set & Costume Designer, Call Mr Robeson, C Soco, Edinburgh (Tayo Aluko & Friends)
- 2007, Set & Costume Designer, The Merchant of Venice, National open-air tour (Heartbreak Productions)
- 2007, Set Designer, The Last Dance, Schools tour, Luton (Full House Theatre)
- 2007, Set & Costume Designer, Never Ever After, Community tour (Chalkfoot Theatre Arts)
- 2007, Costume Designer, Black Atlas, National tour (London Shakespeare Workout)
- 2007, Design Consultant/Prop Maker, Peter Pan, Italian tour (Palkettostage/Theatre Pourquoi Pas)
- 2006, Theming Designer, Blind Tiger , AKA Nightclub, London
- 2006, Costume & Prop Designer, Lifting the Mask, National tour (London Shakespeare Workout)
- 2006, Set & Costume Designer, The Taming of the Shrew, Open air, St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury (Chalkfoot Theatre Arts/Marlowe Theatre)
- 2006, Set & Costume Designer, The Railway Children, Open air tour, Heartbreak Productions
- 2006, Set & Costume Designer, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Community tour and Pride of Place Festival 2006
- 2006, Set Designer, Dial M for Murder, The Little Theatre, Leicester
- 2005, Theming Designer, Christmas Events, David Lloyd Health Club, Raynes Park.
- 2005, Set & Costume Designer, He Said, She Said, Landor Theatre, London
- 2005, Set & Costume Designer, sub/order/nation, Trestle Theatre/Skilltrain
- 2005, Set & Costume Designer, Treasure Island, Italian tour for Palkettostage & Theatre Buddha
- 2005, Set & Costume Designer, The Sea Morgan's Child , Community tour (Chalkfoot Theatre Arts)
- 2005, Designer, Mission from UNCLE, Devised interactive performance for Ladder to the Moon
- 2005, Set Designer, Bugsy Malone, The Little Theatre, Leicester
- 2005, Costume Designer, For the Best, Schools tour (Theatre Exchange/Pursued by a Bear)
- 2004, Set & Costume Designer, The Playground, Polka Theatre, London
- 2004, Set & Costume Designer, Ma Joyce's Tales from the Parlour, Oval House Theatre, London
- 2004, Designer, Dance With Me, Devised hospital-based interactive performance for Ladder to the Moon
- 2004, Set Designer, Arsenic & Old Lace, A Slice of Saturday Night, The Little Theatre, Leicester
- 2004, Designer, Waiting 4..., Youth drama project for Chalkfoot Theatre Arts
- 2004, Costume Designer, Passionate Alliance, Big Youth Theatre Festival (Emergency Exit Arts)
- 2003, Set , Costume & Puppet Designer, The Phoenix & the Carpet, Community tour (Chalkfoot Theatre Arts)
- 2003, Set & Costume Designer, You Don't Kiss, National tour and Oval House Theatre (Pursued by a Bear)
- 2003, Set Designer, Rebecca, The Fifteen Streets, The Little Theatre, Leicester
- 2003, Set & Costume Designer, Spooky Little Girl, Community tour (Chalkfoot Theatre Arts)
- 2003, Set & Costume Designer, Harfwitts' House, Secondary schools TIE tour (Channel Theatre Co)
- 2003, Set & Costume Designer, Puzzle Palace, Primary schools TIE tour (Channel Theatre Co)
- 2003, Designer, Baking a New Cake, Devised youth performance at Kidbrooke School (Pursued by a Bear)
- 2002, Set Designer, And Then There Were None, Palace of Varieties, The Prisoner of 2nd Avenue, The Little Theatre, Leicester
- 2002, Set, Costume & Puppet Designer, Funnybones, National tour (SNAP Theatre)
- 2001, Set & Costume Designer, No Place Left for Heroes, Union Theatre, London
- 2001, Set & Costume Designer, Hannah & Hanna, National, international and British Council tour (John Retallack's Company of Angels)
- 2001, Set Designer, The Herbal Bed, Season's Greetings, The Little Theatre, Leicester
- 2001, Set & Costume Designer, Cloudburst, The Old Curiosity Shop, Pentameters Theatre, London (Traffic of the Stage)
- 2001, Designer, Monogamy, Bridewell Theatre, London (Pursued by a Bear)
