Oli Townsend – Designer

Oli trained at RWCMD and is an Associate Artist at the Gate Theatre. Previous credits for the Gate include: Wittenberg. Other set and costume design credits include: Rodelinda (Scottish Opera); Macbeth (Blackheath Community Opera); Hitchcock Blonde (Hull Truck); A Beginning, A Middle, and An End (Greyscale/Scottish Tour); The Merchant of Venice (Creation Theatre); Gods are Fallen and All Safety Gone (Greyscale/Almeida Festival); Blood Wedding (Royal and Derngate); Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be (Union); .45 (Hampstead); The Barber of Seville (Opera Up Close); INTRIGUE/LOVE (Southwark Playhouse); Narcissus (Roundhouse); The Grimm Bros’ Circus (Bath Theatre Royal & En Masse Theatre); For All Time, The Memory of Water, Blackbird (Theatre By The Lake). Costume design credits include: Wozzeck (ENO); The Lighthouse (ROH Linbury); Big Maggie (Druid). Oli is one of the Gate’s Jerwood Young Designers for 2013.