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Paul Brown

Production Designer

Theatre includes: The Tempest, Platonov, King Lear, Naked, Richard II and Coriolanus (Almeida Theatre and Almeida at Gainsborough and King’s Cross), Hecuba (Donmar Warehouse), The Phantom of the Opera (UK and USA tours), A Month in the Country (Chichester Festival Theatre), Marguerite (Theatre Royal Haymarket and New National Theatre, Tokyo), Emperor and Gallilean, The False Servant and Oedipus (NT) and Hamlet (Tokyo and Sadler’s Wells). Designs for Opera: Mitridate Re di Ponto, The Midsummer Marriage, Tosca, Falstaff and I masnadieri (Royal Opera House), Lulu, Pelléas et Mélisande, Don Giovanni, Hippolyte et Aricie, The Fairy Queen and The Turn of the Screw (Glyndebourne), War and Peace, Frau ohne Schatten and Elektra (Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg), The Magic Flute (Bolshoi Theatre Moscow), Curro Vargas (Madrid), Manon Lescaut (ROH and Shanghai), Guillaume Tell (Pesaro, Bologna and Turin), Der Fliegender Holländer (ENO), Kát’a Kabanová, The Tempest and Lucio Silla (Santa Fe Opera), Nabucco (New National, Tokyo), Parsifal and Peter Grimes (Paris), Tristan and Isolde (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Mefistofele (Amsterdam), Otello (Zurich), Die Gezeichneten (Teatro Massimo Palermo), Aida (Bregenz Festival), Tannhauser (San Francisco), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Moses und Aron and Thaïs (Metropolitan Opera, New York), Anna Bolena and La traviata (Arena di Verona), Die Zauberflöte (Salzburg Festival) and Giselle (La Scala, Milan).

Film includes: Up at the Villa and Angels and Insects.

An Honorary Member of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, recipient of an honorary diploma at the Prague Quadrennial International Theatre Design Exhibition, he was appointed a Royal Designer for Industry in 2013. Trained under Percy Harris.