Dick Straker for Mesmer – Video Design

Theatre credits include Roots (Donmar Warehouse), Paper Dolls (Tricycle Theatre), A Marvellous Year for Plums (Chichester), Going Dark (Fuel Theatre), Orpheus and Eurydice(National Youth Theatre Old Vic Tunnels), Tristan and Isolde (Grange Park Opera), Fat Girl Gets a Haircut (The Roundhouse), Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre), The King and I (Leicester Curve), Desire Under the Elms (New Vic Staffordshire), Seize the Day (Tricycle Theatre), Tales of Ballycumber (Abbey Theatre Dublin), It’s a Wonderful Life (Wolsey Theatre Ipswich), The Mountaintop (Trafalgar Studios), Just Add Water and Faultline (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company), Rushes (Royal Ballet), The Ring Cycle (ROH), Sugar Mummies and Hitchcock Blonde (Royal Court Theatre), Julius Caesar (The Barbican and tour), Richard II (The Old Vic), The Woman in White (Palace Theatre London and Marquis Theatre NY), His Dark Materials, Henry V, The Coast of Utopia and South Pacific (National Theatre), Jumpers (National Theatre, Piccadilly Theatre and Brooks Atkinson NY), The Duchess of Malfi and The Powerbook (National Theatre and tour).  Dick studied Fine Art combining photographic and mixed media installations with post graduate study in graphic design. Dick has designed for many seminal theatre, fashion, commercial and architectural projection events and formed the company Mesmer for video designers with common interests in visual and performance based activities. Dick’s range of  experience has extended over technological advances whilst still being grounded in traditional visual language. He is involved in image production, post production editing and animation and the delivery of the content into the display system. Dick’s interest isdesigning projection that involves creating content for unusual spaces and contexts.