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Hugo Dodsworth

Performance Designer Set Designer Lighting Designer Video Designer

Hugo (he/him) is a Performance Designer, working holistically across disciplines of set, costume, lighting, and video design. He trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2022 with an MA in Performance Design. Prior to his design training, Hugo received his BA (Hons) in Italian and History of Art from UCL in 2021, for which he spent a year working as an electrician and lighting design assistant at Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Hugo specialises in digital design communication methods and is particularly interested in technologies of design and performance.

Credits

Associate Lighting Designer, Alice's Adventures Underground, Labyrinth Waterloo, 2023
Lighting Designer, Between the Roots and Wings, RCSSD, 2022
Lighting Designer, Babytales, Bristol Old Vic, 2022
Lighting Designer, The Telephone / La Voix Humaine, Playground Theatre, 2022
Lighting Designer, Mother Courage and Her Children, RCSDD, 2022
Lighting Designer, Fame Whore, King's Head, 2022
Lighting and Projection Designer, Loam, Bristol Old Vic, 2022
Lighting Designer, Catastrophe Bay, Bristol Old Vic, 2022
Set, Costume, Lighting and Video Designer, Girl in the Machine, Wardrobe Theatre, 2022
Set and Lighting Designer, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, The Station, 2022

Training

MA Performance Design, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, 2021-22

Location

Bristol

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Dance
  • Music
  • Opera
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Costume Design
  • Lighting Design
  • Music - Can learn by ear
  • Music - Can Read
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Set Design
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Theatre making
  • Video Design

Additional Languages

Italian

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