SCREEN - Art Department

Virdee
Magical Society | BBC One | Season 1 - [TBC]
Images coming soon.
Art Department Assistant
Supported Art Directors, Set Decorator and Production Buyer with daily tasks.
Production Designer: Blair Barnette {Block 1} & Laura Hardy {Block 2 & 3}
Bad Education
Tiger Aspect | BBC Three | Season 5 - 2024 
Images coming soon.
Art Department Assistant
​Supported the Prop Master in making props and assisted the art department with day to day tasks.
​Director: Freddy Syborn | Production Designer: Declan Price
Man Like Mobeen
Tiger Aspect | BBC Three | Season 4 - Summer 2023
Images coming soon.
Art Department Trainee
​Supported the assistant art director in making props, took on the responsibility of stand-by props for B-Unit and assisted the set decorators with day to day tasks.
​Director: Akaash Meeda | Production Designer: Martin Boddison

STAGE - Design & Prop Making

Jack Frost & the Search for Winter
tutti frutti productions | National Tour/Sheffield Crucible Run - Winter 2022
Production Images
by tutti frutti productions
Set & Costume Designer
​Designing set, costume & props. Creating floor plans & model boxes. Making and sourcing props, scenic elements & costume. Scenic painting the set and overseeing the build process. Ensuring the durability of all elements for touring to arts centres, studio theatres, schools and community venues.
Creative Team
Director: Eleanor Manners | Writer: Joseph Coelho | Lighting Designer: Callum Macdonald | Sound Designer & Composer: Tayo Akinbode | Movement Director: Sundeep Saini | Stage Manager: Kirsty Smith & Calum Clark | Cast: Sophie Golby, Luca Moscardini & Michaela Murphy| Production Manager: Danielle Harris
Twelfth Night & Macbeth
Leeds Conservatoire | Leeds Playhouse, Leeds - October 2022
Production Images
by Abby Swain
Assistant Set & Costume Designer
​Support with props & costume sourcing. Prop making, creating scenic elements, sewing backdrops and costume alterations.
Creative Team
Twelfth Night Director: Alex Ferris | Macbeth Director: Gitika Buttoo | Designer: Helen Coyston | Lighting Designer: Jessie Addinall | Sound Designer: Dan McGlade | Fight Director: Kenan Ali | Voice Support: Jo Clark | Intimacy Direction: Christina Fulcher | Movement Direction: Aiden Crawford | Production Manager: Simon Bedwell
Props Support
Leeds Playhouse | Leeds Playhouse, Leeds - Autumn 2022
Props Support for Various Shows
​Sourcing props from storage, re-painting props and assisting in the creating and making of props.
Head of Scenic Construction: Andy Wood
I Wanna Be Yours
Leeds Playhouse | Leeds Playhouse/Leeds Community Tour - May 2022
Production Images
by Anthony Robling
Set & Costume Designer
Designing set, costume & props. Creating floor plans & model boxes, making props.
Creative Team
Director: Sameena Hussain | Writer: Zia Ahmed | Lighting Designer: Jane Lalljee | Sound Designer & Composer: Eilon Morris | Assistant Director: Kirsty Taylor | Cast: Eva Scott & Usman Nawaz | Studio Theatre Technician: Megan Gamp | Stage Manager: Jon Calvert | Production Manager: Mick Cassidy & Jude ​Cloke
Maggie May Picture-Booth
Leeds Playhouse | Leeds Playhouse/Touring - May 2022
Production Images
by Leeds Playhouse
Picture-Booth Installation Designer
Designing a dementia friendly installation accompanying ‘Maggie May’ during the performance run & on tour.
Head of Scenic Construction: Andy Wood 
Leeds Young Film Festival: Secret Silver Screen Society 
tutti frutti productions | Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds Library, Leeds City Museum & Leeds Arts Gallery, Leeds - April 2022
Production Images
by tutti frutti productions
Set & Costume Designer
Designing, sourcing and budget management of scenic elements, props & costume.
Creative Team
Director: Wendy Harris | Writer: Chris O’Connor | Performers: Reece Carter, Linda-Ray Ndlovu, Tyler Pickles, ​Dora Rubinstein
Macbeth
Leeds Playhouse | Leeds Playhouse, Leeds - March 2022
Production Images
by Kirsten McTernan
Assistant Set & Costume Designer
​Supported the designer throughout the production process. Designed the sash of Macbeth & Macduff.
Creative Team
Directed & Adapted: Amy Leach | Set & Costume Designer: Hayley Grindle | Associate Director: Benjamin Wilson | Lighting Designer: Chris Davey | Sound Design & Composer: Nicola T. Chang | Movement Director: Georgina Lamb | Fight Director: Claire Llewellyn of RC Annie | Casting: Lucy Casson | BSL Consultants: Charlotte Arrowsmith & Adam Bassett | Assistant Movement Director: Bakani Pick-Up
Wendy & Peter Pan
Leeds Playhouse | Leeds Playhouse, Leeds - Winter 2021
Production Images
by Marc Brenner
Props Support
Painting, map making, creating bunting and assisting props supervisors on various makes.
Head of Scenic Construction: Andy Wood | Set & Costume Designer: Colin Richmond 
Princess & the Pea
tutti frutti productions | Leeds Playhouse/Nationally Touring - Winter 2021
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by tutti frutti productions
Assistant Set & Costume Designer
​Support with prop sourcing and making.
Creative Team
Director: Wendy Harris | Writer: Mike Kenny | Designer: Catherine Chapman | Lighting Designer: Callum Macdonald | Composer/MD: Christella Litras | Movement Direction: Sundeep Saini | Trainee Composer: NikNak | Production Manager: Paul Veysey
Promise of a Garden
Leeds Playhouse | Leeds Playhouse, Leeds - August 2021
Production Images
by Zoe Martin
Props Support 
Incorporating the knitted flowers into different set pieces - making flower carpets, grass mounds, foliage bunting.
Project Info
Volunteers from across Yorkshire sent in knitted flowers, which were used in the scenic elements of the show. 
Head of Scenic Construction: Andy Wood
East is East and Cas is Cas
Leeds Playhouse | Burberry Inspire: School Shows, Leeds - July 2021
Production Images
by Anthony Robling
Set & Costume Designer | Prop Maker
Designing the set and costume. Making props: pop-up survival guide book & prop food 
Creative Team
Writer: Adam Hughes | Director: Alex Ferris | Assistant Director: Jenny Jones | BSL Consultant: Keren Seabrook | Sound Designer & Composer: Nicole Raymond | Wardrobe: Kirsty Blades | Filming Company: Pilot Theatre - Ed Sunman | BSL Interpreter: Anna Smith | Stage Manager: Julie Issott | Performer: Charles Sloboda-Bolton | Producer: Zoe Bailey | Production Manager: Steve Watling
So Much
tutti frutti productions | The Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds - June 2021
Production Images
by tutti frutti productions
Designer
Designing, sourcing, making and budget management of scenic elements & props.
Creative Team 
​So Much by Trish Cooke & Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury | Director: Dermot Daly  | Composer: Tayo Akinbode | Stage Manager: Charlotte Wood | Performer: Lladel Bryant | Producer: tutti frutti productions | Artistic Director: Wendy Harris, tutti frutti | Admin & Operations: Mosa Mpetha, tutti frutti | Programme Manager: Rachel Savage, Carriageworks
Resident Designer
Leeds Playhouse & tutti frutti productions supported by the Weston Jerwood Creative Bursaries programme | Leeds
Spring 2021 - Spring 2022
This was a year long residency created as a development programme for an emerging production designer. During this period, I had the opportunity to design small scale productions, assist designers on larger scale shows and have practical hands-on experience working within the following departments: wardrobe, props, scenic workshop and construction. 
Yellow is the Colour of Sunshine
by ​Brendan Murray | Concept of Production - March 2021
Designer
​Using a creative brief, production specification and script, I designed the set and costume. I started with the main themes from the creative brief and refined ideas based on core concepts. Using this as a foundation, I made some quick sketches and created a mood/inspiration board - developing on ideas for colours & lighting and introducing symbolic interpretations. 
Project Info
This was a design task assigned to present initial ideas for a conceptual Children's theatre production. ​The featured video above shows the 3D construction of the set made using SketchUp.
Reasons to be Hopeful
Leeds Playhouse | Model Making Workshop Facilitator - Spring 2021
Model Making Artist
​​I facilitated model making workshops where each participant made a model of their house showing their reasons of hope in each room. The themes of the rooms were: comfort food (Image 4), socially distanced (Image 3), appreciation of essential workers (Image 6), rest & relaxation (Image 9 & 10), the future (Image 7 & 8) and nature (Image 5). The model above is the one I created in order to demonstrate simple model making techniques to participants.
Project Info
In response to lockdown and rapidly changing times, Leeds Playhouse created a creative engagement project called "Reasons to be Hopeful" - an intergenerational project that connected 100 people with 10 artists for 10 weeks inbetween February and May 2021 collectively creating a multi-media tapestry on display at the Playhouse during Summer 2021. 
Digital Stories
tutti frutti productions | Craft Creator - Spring 2021
Production Images
by Warda Abbasi
Craft Creator
Creating, making and presenting craft activities to accompany online digital stories during lockdown.
Project Info 
tutti frutti commissioned a range of artists to create a series of recorded performed readings of children’s books, which were all written and created by global majority and/or disabled artists, that audiences could watch online. The recorded readings were aimed at children aged 3+, created for schools to watch in class and families to watch at home.
Sweet Dreams
tutti frutti productions | Spring 2020 - postponed due to COVID
Model Box Images
by Catherine Chapman
Assistant Designer
Created a 1:20 scale model of a character. 
Project Info
Due to COVID this show did not pass its development phase.
​Director: Wendy Harris | Designer: Catherine Chapman
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