Lizzie Clachan

The award-winning British set designer Lizzie Clachan works internationally in theatre, opera, dance and installation. She originally studied fine art at the Edinburgh College of Art, going on to take a postgraduate diploma in Advanced Theatre Practice at the Central School of Speech & Drama. She was a founding member of the arts collective Shunt, and co-created and designed all their productions.
Her recent theatre work includes A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Malmö City Theatre, Hipp stage), Blindness (Donmar Warehouse, London, along with international tour to cities including New York, Toronto, Mexico City, Dublin, Hong Kong, Amsterdam and Singapore), The Invisible Hand (Kiln Theatre, London), White Noise and A Number (Bridge Theatre, London), Far Away (Donmar Warehouse), The Nico Project (Manchester International Festival and Melbourne Festival), Rutherford and Son (National Theatre, London), The Son (Kiln Theatre and Duke of York’s Theatre in London’s West End), Absolute Hell (National Theatre), Ibsen Huis (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam), Life of Galileo (Young Vic, London), Drei Schwestern (Theater Basel and Berlin Theatertreffen), Yerma (Young Vic, Park Avenue Armory, New York, and the Schaubühne, Berlin), Cyprus Avenue (Royal Court Theatre, London, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and Public Theater, New York), The Skriker (Manchester International Festival), Carmen Disruption (Almeida Theatre, London), Treasure Island (National Theatre), The Forbidden Zone (Salzburg Festival and Schaubühne), Wunschloses Unglück (Burgtheater, Vienna), A Season in the Congo (Young Vic) and Adler & Gibb (Royal Court Theatre).
Her opera productions have included Nixon in China (Hanover State Opera), The Blue Woman (Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House, London, and Festival of New, Snape Maltings), Lucia di Lammermoor (Metropolitan Opera, New York, and Los Angeles Opera), Die sieben Todsünden /Mahagonny Songspiel (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden), The Mask of Orpheus, Orpheus in the Underworld, Orfeo ed Euridice and Orphée (English National Opera, London), Jenůfa (Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, and Palau de les Arts, Valencia), La traviata (Theater Basel and English National Opera), Pelléas et Mélisande (Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Polish National Opera, Warsaw, and New National Theatre, Tokyo), Le Vin herbé (Berlin State Opera) and Bliss (Hamburg State Opera).