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. 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 Not About Heroes, Macbeth, A Pin to See the Peep-Show, The Vanek Plays, Medea (Wyndham's & Broadway), Sweeny Todd, Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Trial, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Mikado, Eugene Onegin, Rinaldo, The Birthday Party, Lucia di Lammermoor (Scottish Opera), Not the End of the World.
He received Olivier Award nominations for Edward II at The Pit, Tamburlaine the Great at the Barbican and Medea at Wyndham's Theatre.