PROJECTION DESIGNER

Will is a video and projection designer working internationally across Opera, Theatre, Dance, Musical Theatre and Experimental performance. Will’s work has been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally.

Current and Forthcoming Credits Include:

Don Giovanni (Lithuanian National Opera); Hamlet Hail to the Thief (Barbican);

Dance and Opera Credits Include:

The Galloping Cure (Scottish Opera); The Last Hamlet (Festival d’Avignon); Idomeneo (Royal Danish Theatre);;Parsifal (Semperoper Dresden)We Caliban (Shobana Jeyasingh Dance);  Khovanschina (Salzburg Festival); The Handmaid’s Tale (San Francisco Opera, Royal Danish Opera); Breaking The Waves (Houston Grand Opera, Detroit Opera, Opera Comique Paris, Scottish Opera); Peter Grimes; Giulio Cesare (Teatro alla Scala); Don Giovanni (Gottenburg Opera); Wozzeck (Aix Festival); Carmen (Scottish Opera); Nixon In China (Teatro Real, Madrid); Aida; Nixon In China (Royal Danish Opera); Cabaret (Lido, Paris); Coppelia (Scottish Ballet);  A Tale of Two Cities (Lost Dog Dance, UK Tour); The Don Giovanni (Greek National Opera, Royal Danish Opera); The Life And Death of Alexander Litvinenko (Grange Festival); Peter Grimes; Idomeneo (Teatro Real, Madrid); Das Rheingold, Die Walküre (Deutsches Oper Berlin); Orlando (Wiener Staatsoper); The Rake’s Progress (The Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre, Moscow, Dutch National Opera, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence); Die Tote Stadt (Komische Oper Berlin); The Tempest (Comédie-Français); Germania (Opera Lyon); Goat (Rambert); Snow Maiden (Opera North); Simplicius Simplicissimus (Independeent Opera, Sadler’s Wells); Kommilitonen! (Welsh National Youth Opera); Opera For The Unknown Woman (with Melanie Wilson, WMC & Fuel); Benjamin, Derniere Nuit (Opera Lyon).

Theatre Credits Include:

Horrible Histories the Concert (Birmingham Stage); Bogwitch (Soho Theatre, Walthamstow); Hamlet, Hail To The Thief (RSC/Manchester International Festival – WhatsOnStage Award Nomination); Figures in Extinction (Nederlands Dans Theatr); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Barbican/RSC); Macbeth (ETT, Lyric Hammersmith); Passing Strange (Young Vic); The Girl on the Altar (Abbey Theatre Dublin, Kiln Theatre); Into The Woods (Theatre Royal Bath); The Meaning of Zong (Bristol Old Vic); The Long Goodbye (Manchester International Festival); The Cherry Orchard (International Theater Amsterdam); Grief Is The Thing With Feathers (Barbican & St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York); The Convert (Young Vic); I’m A Phoenix, Bitch (Battersea Arts Centre); The Encounter (Complicité; Barbican, International Tour & Golden Theatre, Broadway); Wings (Young Vic); Pygmalion (Headlong & West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Narrow World (with Melanie Wilson & The British Council); The Snow Queen (Bristol Old Vic); Beware of Pity (Complicité & Schaubühne, Berlin); Queen Anne (RSC).

Will is the recipient of the 2016 Knights of Illumination Award for Best Projection Design for his work on The Encounter and was nominated for a Stage Award in 2022 as part of the design team for Into The Woods.