Christian Hey

Recently graduated from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, I am a transgender performance designer, visual director, & researcher.

As a performance designer, whilst practically minded, I adopt an interdisciplinary approach and am particularly drawn to immersive performance. My practical skills include hand drawing, Adobe Photoshop, AutoCAD drafting, and scale model-making.

My practice is deeply audience-focused. The scenographic environment impacts a work’s potential to move, inspire, and effect change. I want to create performance that breaks free from conventional visual principals and outdated rules of engagement across live performance, but especially within classical music and opera.

Credits

DESIGNER & CONSTRUCTOR, One Day, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, 1 week, 2021

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER, L’Egisto, Hampstead Garden Opera at the Cockpit Theatre, 2 weeks, 2021

DIRECTOR & SCENOGRAPHER, Streetlight, Street performance, 2 performances, 2021

VISUAL DIRECTOR & DESIGNER, Kepler-384b, St. Luke’s Uxbridge Road, 2 performances, 2020 (postponed due to COVID)

SET DESIGNER, Dear Young Monster, The Queer House at Omnibus Theatre Clapham, one performance, 2019

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER, Hippolyte et Aricie, Grimeborn Opera Festival at the Arcola Theatre, 2 Weeks, 2019

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER, Les Indes Galantes, Ensemble OrQuesta at the John McIntosh Arts Centre, 2 performances, 2019

VISUAL DIRECTOR & DESIGNER, The Whispering Trees, St Peter’s Hammersmith, 1 performance, 2019

SET & COSTUME DESIGNER, Cavalli’s Xerse, Grimeborn Opera Festival at the Arcola Theatre, 2018

COSTUME DESIGNER & STAGE MANAGER, Così fan Tutte, The Andipa Gallery, 2 performances, 2018

Training

• work experience, Antony McDonald’s Studio, Aug 2021

• BA (Hons) Design for Performance, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating with first-class honours, 2018-2021

• Digital Illustration: Short Course, Central Saint Martins, 2016

• Rose Youth Theatre, Design, Writing, and Acting training for young people, 2009-2014