ASHLEY MARTIN-DAVIS
set and costume designer
Wonderland by Beth Steel | Hampstead Theatre | Directed by Edward Hall | Set & Costumes by Ashley Martin-Davis
Ashley studied at Central School of Art & Design and Motley Theatre Design School. He has designed internationally for theatre and opera.
Work in theatre includes: Mary, Jude, Filthy Business, Rabbit Hole, Hapgood, Wonderland, #AIWW: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei and 55 Days (Hampstead Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Liverpool Everyman); The Last Days of Troy and Britannia Waves the Rules (both Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester); The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Mephisto (Betty Nansen Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark).
Work in opera includes: Tosca (Santa Fe Opera); King Lear (Grange Festival); The Elixir of Love (Seattle Opera); Giulio Cesare and Egmont (Theater an der Wien); Albert Herring, Owen Wingrave (Theater Lübeck); Macbeth (Opera de Dijon); Vanessa (Glyndebourne Festival Opera); Peter Grimes (Frankfurt Oper); Francesca da Rimini (Opera National du Rhin); I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Bergen Nasjonale Opera); Romeo et Juliette (Gounod) (Santa Fe Opera / Liceu Barcelona); Une Nuit A Venise (Opera de Lyon); Pelleas et Melisande (Stockholm Opera); The Merchant of Venice (Bregenz Festspiele Austria, Polish National Opera, Welsh National Opera and Oper Graz); Otello, Macbeth (also Palau de les Arts Valencia) and Falstaff (Royal Danish Opera).
The Last Days Of Troy (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester). [Photos by Jonathan Keenan]
I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Bergen Nasjonale Opera). [Photos by Magnus Skrede]