Wayne Dowdeswell
Biography
Trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
At Contact Theatre, Manchester, his designs included No More Sitting on the Old School Bench, A Man for All Seasons, Fanshen, Should Old Acquaintance.
He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1978, working first at The Other Place, where designs include Golden Girls, The Desert Air, Today, The Philistines, The Dillen. Designs for The Pit Theatre, Barbican, include Deathwatch, The Maids, Speculators.
Until its recent closure he was Lighting Supervisor at the R.S.C.'s Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon. Designs there include The Rover, The Fair Maid of the West, Hyde Park, Titus Andronicus, The Jew of Malta, Doctor Faustus, The Duchess of Malfi, Edward II, The Seagull, Tamburlaine the Great, The Country Wife, The Wives' Excuse, The Devil is an Ass, The Cherry Orchard, The Shakespeare Revue, The ‘Jacobethan’ Season, The Tamer Tamed, The 'Gunpowder' Season, Breakfast with Mugabe, The Canterbury Tales.
Other design work in the U.K. and overseas includes Chasing Fate, The Coventry Mysteries, The Truth About Lies, Cat and Mouse (Imagineer), The Vanek Plays (London & Prague), Medea (Wyndhams and NY), The Birthday Party, Not the End of the World (Bristol Old Vic), The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Life of Stuff, Whisky Galore! (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Macbeth, Educating Rita, Death of a Salesman, A Christmas Carol, A Doll’s House (Bridge House Theatre), Piaf, Only a Matter of Time (Watermill), Present Laughter (Clwyd), Sweeny Todd (Cheltenham), Cabaret, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (York), Jungle Book, Monkey, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Hair (Dream Factory), Dr Faustus, The School for Scandal, Volpone, The Duchess of Malfi (Stage on Screen, Greenwich)
He received Olivier Award nominations for Edward II at The Pit, Tamburlaine the Great at the Barbican and Medea at Wyndham's Theatre.