Blythe Brett
Performance Designer
Theatre Collaborator
Performance Designer (she/her)
Blythe trained at the Royal Drawing School and at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She graduated from the BA (Hons) Design for Performance course in 2020, receiving the Lord Williams Memorial Prize for Stage Design.
She creates performance spaces across theatre, dance, opera, installation and live art. Interested in highly collaborative, inventive and challenging work, pushing at the boundaries of what design and visual dramaturgy can achieve in live contact with an audience. Devised and movement-based performance form a great part of her design background, and she is eager to pursue collaborations with experimenting directors and choreographers.
Recent design credits include Project Dictator (New Diorama Theatre), Who Killed My Father (Tron Theatre), The Mother Sh*t (Pleasance Theatre), Ariadne (English Touring Opera) and Murmurations (Tangled Feet).
Credits
SET DESIGNER - 'On the Edge'
Streatham Space 2022. Created by Jesse Dupre
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER - 'The Mother Sh*t'
Pleasance Theatre 2022. Created by Stumbletrip Theatre
ASSOCIATE DESIGNER - 'KIN'
Home, Manchester 2022. Created by Gecko Theatre
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER - 'Project Dictator'
New Diorama Theatre 2022. Created by Rhum & Clay
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER - 'First Love is the Revolution'
East 15 2022. Directed by Andrea Ling
CO-SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER - 'Who Killed My Father'
Tron Theatre 2022. Directed by Nora Wardell
COSTUME DESIGNER - 'Murmurations'
Touring 2021. Created by Tangled Feet
SET DESIGNER - 'Ariadne'
English Touring Opera 2021. Directed by Patricia Okenwa
CO-SET DESIGNER - 'Shostakovich Michelangelo Suite'
English Touring Opera 2021. Directed by James Conway
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER - 'I Lost my Virginity to Chopin's Nocturne'
Vaults 2021. Created by Papermug Theatre
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER - 'The Arsonists'
LAMDA 2020. Directed by Fred Wienand
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER - 'Motortown'
Bute Theatre 2020. Directed by Michael Fentiman
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER - 'Nightshifter'
Jacksons Lane 2018. Directed by Finn Morrell
SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER - 'Tribe'
Edinburgh Fringe and Jacksons Lane 2017. Directed by Finn Morrell
SET, COSTUME AND PUPPETRY DESIGNER - 'Gilgamesh & Me'
Edinburgh Fringe 2019. Directed by Jon Whitten
SET, COSTUME AND PUPPETRY DESIGNER - 'Terra Incognita'
Edinburgh Fringe 2016. Directed by Finn Morrell
Training
BA Design for Performance - Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama