Jida Akil

Set Designer Costume Designer

Jida Akil is a Syrian/Lebanese set & costume designer. She graduated from Central Saint Martins with First Class Honours and has worked with notable companies such as the Young Vic and Complicité. Her designs have also been selected for exhibitions with the Prague Quadrennial and World Stage Design. Jida is a member of Scene-Change, MENA Arts UK, and CYCSTAT. She was also a resident designer at NDT Broadgate (2021-22).

She is interested in multi-media collaborations and considers design to be visual dramaturgy. She likes to work across genres such as new writing and devised theatre, with an emphasis on platforming marganlised identities and global majority voices.

Credits

Set & Costume: How To Break Out Of A Detention Centre, Riverside Studios, 2 weeks, 2023

Costume: Boy, Mountview, 1 week, 2022

Costume: Holiday Inn, GSA, 1 week, 2022

Set & Costume: Human Nurture, UK Tour (including Theatre Peckham), 6 weeks, 2022

Set: For A Palestinian, Camden People’s Theatre (2 weeks) & Bristol Old Vic, (1 week), 2022

Set & Costume: Trump L’Oeil, Upstairs at the Gatehouse, 4 weeks, 2022

Set & Costume: Painkiller, Theatre Royal Stratford East, 1 week, 2022

Set & Costume: Give Me The Sun, Blue Elephant Theatre, 3 weeks, 2022

Costume: The Poison Belt, Jermyn Street Theatre, 1 week, 2022

Set & Costume: Funeral Flowers, UK Tour, 5 weeks, 2022

Set & Costume: The 4th Country, Park Theatre, 4 weeks, 2022

Set & Costume: Darling, The Hope Theatre, 3 weeks, 2021

Set & Costume: Complicite Do A Level Drama, UK Tour, 3 weeks, 2021

Jerwood Assistant Designer: Hamlet, Young Vic, 7 weeks, 2021



Training

Jermyn Street Theatre x Masterclass Mentorship Scheme: Set & Costume Design

BA(hons): Performance: Design & Practice
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
2018-2021

Foundation Diploma in Art & Design:
3D Design: Architecture & Spatial Design
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
2017-2018

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Dance
  • Live art
  • Opera
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Costume Design
  • Devising
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Performance Art
  • Prop Making
  • Set Design
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Sound Design

Additional Languages

Arabic, French (semi-fluent)

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