A Midsummer Nights Dream
Barbican Theatre, London
Lucy Osborne is an award-winning set and costume designer.
She is also Founder and Creative Director of studio three sixty.
Lucy creates bold, innovative designs which fuse architecture, light and music.
Forthcoming projects include Peter Pan Goes Wrong and Dirty Dancing for Chateau Neuf, Oslo, Norway.
Recent projects include Set and Costume Design for A Midusmmer Nights Dream (Royal Shakespeare Company) and Set Design for a new production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Gothenburg Opera).
Other recent work includes Costume Design for Margrethe (Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen); Greatest Days – The Official Take That Musical (UK Tour 2023-2024); Fisherman’s Friends (Hall for Cornwall 2021 and UK & Canada Tour 2022-2023) and Berlusconi (Southwark Playhouse for Francesca Moody Productions, Spring 2023). Lucy’s set and costume designs for a new production of Cabaret for Gothenburg Opera opened in October 2022 and ran in Gothenburg until April 2023.
Lucy is a co-designer of Roundabout, the world’s first flatpack theatre and winner of The Stage Award’s Theatre Building of the Year.
She is the Founder and Creative Director of studio three sixty who advocate for resilient, inclusive and inspirational theatre buildings through a combination of design and consultancy. studio three sixty are currently leading the strategic planning, project management and delivery of a Public Art scheme for Theatr Clwyd in North Wales.
They also recently won a RIBA competition with Carter Gregson Grey Architects to design Beacon; an iconic travelling performance space that will be created for Bradford UK City of Culture 2025.
Lucy is a Trustee for the Theatres Trust and passionate about creating, saving and adapting theatre buildings for the future.
Photographed by Helen Murray
Contact
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Industry Awards and Memberships
Jeff Awards: Scenic Design Winner
for Twelfth Night (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre)
Evening Standard Best Design Nomination
for The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse)
TMA Awards: Best New Musical
for The Assassination of Katie Hopkins (Theatr Clwyd)
TMA Awards: Best Touring Show
for Translations (English Touring Theatre)
The Stage Awards: Theatre Building of the Year 2015, Best Fringe Venue 2016
Co-designer of Roundabout, the world’s first pup-up theatre. Roundabout achieved ground-breaking success in inclusion and accessibility, with 30% of all audiences being first time theatre goers.
Trustee of the Theatres Trust
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Member of the Editorial Board for the Institute of Theatre Engineering & Architecture Conference (ITEAC) 2018 & 2022
Member of the Society of British Theatre Designers
Represented Great Britain at the Prague Quadrennial of Theatre Design 2019 with her scenic design for The Assassination of Katie Hopkins
Lucy trained on the Motley Theatre Design Course following a BA in Fine Art from the University of Newcastle.
Press
Shows
Greatest Days
The Official Take That Musical. UK Tour 2023 – 2024.
Berlusconi – A New Musical
Southwark Playhouse, Spring 2023.
Fishermans Friends
A New Musical. Hall for Cornwall, October 2021 and UK & Canada Tour 2022 – 2023.
The Osmonds Musical
UK Tour. Opening February 2022.
Famous Five
A New Musical. Theatr Clwyd and Chichester Festival Theatre, Autumn 2022.
Cabaret
Gothenburg Opera, Sweden. Autumn 2022 – Spring 2023 (postponed from Autumn 2020).
Rich Kids
A New Play. Written and Directed by Javaad Alipoor. Traverse, Edinburgh; HOME, Manchester; Theatre in the Mill, Bradford
Rutherford and Son
Written by Githa Sowerby. Directed by Caroline Steinbeis. Sheffield Crucible Theatre
God’s Dice
A New Play. Written by David Baddiel. Directed by James Grieve. Soho Theatre, London
The Assassination of Katie Hopkins
A New Musical. Written by Chris Bush and Matt Winkworth. Directed by James Grieve. Theatr Clwyd. Winner of Best New Musical at the UK Theatre Awards,
A Pacifists Guide to the War on Cancer
A New Musical. Written and directed by Bryony Kimmings. HOME, Manchester, National Theatre
Les Miserables
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg. Lyrics by Alain Boubil and Jean-Marc Natel. Book by Claude-Michel Schönberg. Directed by James Grieve. Wermland Opera, Sweden.
Coriolanus
Directed by Josie Rourke. Donmar Warehouse and NT Live.
Theatre Consultancy (with studio three sixty)
Trowbridge Town Hall 2023 – present
- Interior design for the public-facing areas as part of the refurbishment of Trowbridge Town Hall.
Theatr Clwyd, 2020 – present
- Part of the team working on the refurbishment of Theatr Clwyd, which will reopen in 2024.
- Responsible for interior designs for dressing rooms, offices, foyer, shop and all FF&E.
- Managing a £300K Public Art Programme alongside the development of the new building.
Charterhouse School, 2022 – present
- Full theatre consultancy (auditorium, stage lighting and audiovisual design) for a new dance studio space and refurbishment of existing Ben Travers Theatre, a 300 seat black box auditorium.
Reimagined Futures, 2020 – present
Royal Conservatoire, Glasgow, 2020 – 2021 and 2022
- Delivering an educational course that enabled & empowered Fair Access students to create their own virtual pop up venues for communities in the top 20% for the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD).
- Creation and delivery of covid safe virtual workshops.
- A unique opportunity to inspire the next generation of theatre designers placing accessibility & inclusion at the heart of their design development.
Theatre Consultant, Charcoalblue, 2016 – 2020
- Provided innovative consultancy on theatre design with a focus on auditorium planning, seating, sightlines & accessibility.
- Created a bespoke seating design for Wilton’s Music Hall in London.
- Designed a 1,800 seat theatre and 1,000 seat aerial performance venue for a leading cruise-ship company.
- Led design projects for the Rose Theatre in Kingston, Padua College in Australia, Kaaitheatre in Brussels and the Noida Cultural Centre in India.
"Lucy Osborne’s delicious scenography and costume design. "
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