SET AND COSTUME DESIGNER
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Michael Vale left the Theatre Design Course at The Riverside Studios (subsequently The Motley Design Course) in 1984.
Since then he has worked consistently with a diverse range of directors and companies in a multitude of venues.
Directors he has worked with include Clint Dyer; David McVicar; Sally Cookson; Paul Hunter; Emma Rice; Mike Shepherd; Kathryn Hunter; Greg Doran; Will Tuckett; Jude Kelly; Sean Mathias; Steven Berkoff; Clarke Peters; Neil Bartlett; Simon Godwin; Jonathan Munby; Roxana Silbert; Tim Supple; James Conway; Bill Gaskill; Julia Pascal; John Wright; Nick Bagnall; Steve Marmion and Wolfgang Stange.
Selected THEATRE DESIGN credits include BENT, JANE EYRE, OTHELLO and PETER PAN (National Theatre); CANTERBURY TALES, JULIUS CAESAR, and MACBETH (Royal Shakespeare Company); THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (Told By An Idiot/RSC); CYMBELINE (Kneehigh Theatre/RSC); FAERIES (ROH, Linbury Theatre); CARMEN JONES and THE WIZARD OF OZ (Royal Festival Hall); A MONSTER CALLS (The Old Vic) and MY PERFECT MIND (Told By An Idiot)
Selected OPERA DESIGN credits include RIGOLETTO (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); TOSCA and ALCINA (English National Opera); LA BOHEME and CARMEN (Glyndebourne Festival Opera); SWEENEY TODD and HAMLET (Opera North); ARIODANTE, TOLOMEO, THE TURN OF THE SCREW, DIDO AND AENEAS, JEPTHE and JENUFA (English Touring Opera); FIDELIO (New Zealand Festival Opera); IDOMONEO (De Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp) and THE JUNIPER TREE (Munich Biennale and The Almeida, London).
Selected DIRECTOR/DESIGNER credits include TEVYE IN NEW YORK (The Wallis, Los Angeles); A PLACE WITH THE PIGS and ‘ART’ (Warsaw Globe Theatre); ONE WORLD, TIGHTROPE, 35 AMICI DRIVE and ELEGY (Lyric Hammersmith); DOORMAN (Plymouth Theatre Royal/Tour); THE WHITE CROW and MAYAKOVSKY: THE SLANTING RAIN (Mercury Colchester/Royal Shakespeare Company) and THE PYRAMID TEXTS (Birmingham Rep/Soho Theatre).
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His work has received an Olivier Award, an LA Stage Scene Award and has been nominated for a further three Olivier Awards, an Irish Time Theatre Award, a Manchester Evening News Drama Award, a Charrington Fringe First Award and two Off-West End Theatre Awards.