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BIOGRAPHY
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Sophie designs for theatre and is Associate Director and designer for performance company seven sisters group. The company has become well known for its site-specific work and has to toured nationally and internationally. Former Joint Honorary Secretary of the Society of British Theatre Designers, she is co-editor of the SBTD journal, and co-editor of their Transformation & Revelation catalogue. Her work has been selected to represent Britain at every Prague Quadrennial exhibition of world theatre design since 1999, and her designs will be part of the Transformation & Revelation exhibition at the V&A museum in 2012.
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Work includes; Tell Them That I Am Young and Beautiful (directed by Marcello Magni at the Arcola Theatre), Uncle Vanya (directed by Helena Kaut Howson for Belgrade Studio and Arcola Theatre), Led Easy (directed by Emma Bernard for Cardboard Citizens), Mobilis In Mobili (dir. Bruno Roubicek, Shunt Lounge), The Winter’s Tale (dir. Neil Caple, Birkenhead Park), The Bald Prima Donna (dir. Hanna Berrigan Etcetera Theatre), Blackbird and The Difficult Unicorn (both directed by Jane Howell at The Southwark Playhouse), The Tempest (dir.Nancy Meckler, Shared Experience tour) and Full Moon, (dir. Helena Kaut-Howsen). |
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Sophie’s designs for seven sisters group include; Atalanta (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), Asterion (V&A Museum), Salome (St Pancras Chambers), Trainstation (Kings Cross, Waterloo, Nationally and Internationally), Concrete (Royal National Theatre), Ballroom (Royal Festival Hall), The Forest (Newlands Corner) and The Forbidden (Royal Opera House). |
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Sophie curated an exhibition at the V&A Museum called When Marcel Met Motley, about the collaboration between Motley and the architect Marcel Breuer. She is currently a research student at University of the Arts London, and is researching post war British theatre design, in particular Jocelyn Herbert and Motley. |
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