Nicola Turner is an artist and a theatre, ballet and opera designer with over twenty years international experience. She graduated from Central St Martins and in 2007 won the Green Room Award for her design for Rusalka at the Sydney Opera House.
Awards and Nominations
Green Room Award for Design in Opera for Rusalka Opera Australia at the Sydney Opera House.
List Of Productions
2024
DEATH IN VENICE | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Welsh National Opera/ UK Tour
2023
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE | Director: Nancy Meckler | Orlando Ballet, US/ Scottish Ballet
2022
THE MAKROPULOS AFFAIR | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Welsh National Opera
GRETE MINDE | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Theater Magdeburg, Germany
2019
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE | Director: Nancy Meckler | Nashville Ballet, US
2018
KING LEAR | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company/ Brooklyn Academy of Music, US
TROLIUS AND CRESSIDA | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company
2017
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE | Director: Nancy Meckler | Scottish Ballet/ US Tour
DER ROSENKAVALIER | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Welsh National Opera
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE | Nancy Meckler | Estonian National Opera
2016
FAUST | Theatre Magdeburg
KING LEAR | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company/ Barbican
2015
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE USHER/USHER HOUSE | Director: David Pountney | San Francisco Opera, US
2014
MADAME BUTTERFLY | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Opera Oviedo, Spain
NORMA | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Opera Holland Park
THE WITCH OF EDMONTON | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE / USHER/ USHER HOUSE | Director: David Pountney | Welsh National Opera
2013
HÄNSEL UND GRETEL | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Garsington Opera
DER ROSENKAVALIER | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Theater Magdeburg, Germany
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland/ Theatre Royal Glasgow/ King’s Theatre Edinburgh
OPERA
MADAME BUTTERFLY | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Theater Magdeburg, Germany
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE | Director: Nancy Meckler | Scottish Ballet
THE MAGIC FLUTE | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Fundacion Opera De Oviedo, Spain
IL TROVATORE | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Den Jyske Opera, Denmark
LA TRAVIATA | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Den Jyske Opera, Demak
THE MAGIC FLUTE | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Garsington Opera
THE RAKE’S PROGRESS | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Garsington Opera
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Royal Opera House, Linbury Theatre
RIGOLETTO | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Aarhus, Denmark
THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO | Costumes | Director: Olivia Fuchs | English National Opera
DON GIOVANNI | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Opera North
CHORUS! | Director: David Pountney | Welsh National Opera
CHEREVICHKI | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Garsington Opera
RUSALKA |Winner of Australian Helpmann Award for Best Opera) | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Opera North/ Opera Australia at Sydney Opera House
SARKA and OSUD | Director: Olivia Fuchs | Garsington Opera
LA TRAVIATA | Director: Olivia Fuchs | English Touring Opera
L’AMORE INDUSTRIOSO | Director: Sarah Alexander | Opera Holland Park
CARMEN | Director: Henk Schut | Holland Park Opera
OTHER THEATRE
THE ORPHAN OF ZHAO | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company
CARDENIO SHAKESPEARE’S ‘LOST PLAY’ REIMAGINED | Director: Gregory Doran | Royal Shakespeare Company
CYRANO DE BERGERAC | Director: Simon Reade | Bristol Old Vic
ORESTES | Director: Nancy Meckler | Shared Experience
MY FAIR LADY | Director: Mark Clements | Aarhus/ Denmark Tour
THREE TALL WOMEN | Director: Irina Brown | Oxford Playhouse
A PASSAGE TO INDIA | Director: Nancy Meckler | Shared Experience UK tour/ Cork/ New York, US
GONE TO EARTH | Director: Nancy Meckler | Shared Experience including Lyric Hammersmith
A PASSAGE TO INDIA | Director: Nancy Meckler | Shared Experience including Riverside Studios
KING HEDLEY II | Director: Paulette Randall | Tricycle/ Birmingham Rep (Co-Production)
FOR THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
ISLAND PRINCESS | Director: Gregory Doran | and transfer to the Gielgud Theatre as part of the Jacobean season
BRIXTON STORIES | Director: Roxanna Silbert
AS YOU LIKE IT | Director: Gregory Doran | Co-design with Kaffe Fassett
OROONOKO | Director: Gregory Doran
OTHER LONDON THEATRE
FURTHER THAN THE FURTHEST THING | Winner of a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival | Director: Irina Brown | National Theatre/ Tricycle/ Tron/ Traverse
TENDER | Director: Anthony Clark | Hampstead Theatre /Birmingham Rep
SPEAKING IN TONGUES | Director: Mark Clements | Hampstead/ Derby Playhouse
THINGS FALL APART | Director: Chuck Mike | Royal Court/ WYP as part of LIFT & US/ UK tour
OUR BOYS | Director: Jonathan Lewis | Donmar Warehouse/ Derby Playhouse
NO 1 TOURS
THE EXTERNAL | Director: Ezra
SOUL TRAIN | Director: Mark Clements | Derby Playhouse
GREAT EXPECTATIONS | Director: Mark Clements | also Philadelphia, US
DANNY BOUNCING | Director: Mark Clements
WATCHING THE SAND FROM THE SEA | Director: Mark Clements
THE GLASS MENAGERIE | Director: Mark Clements
GRAPEVINE | Director: Mark Clements
LIPS TOGETHER TEETH APART | Director: Mark Clements
EXTREMITIES | Director: Mark Clements | also York Theatre Royal
ADAM BEDE | Director: Geoffrey Beevers
FOR WEST YORKSHIRE PLAYHOUSE
THE BEATIFICATION OF AREA BOY | Director: Jude Kelly | European tour/ Brooklyn Academy, US
THE WINSLOW BOY | Director: Gwenda Hughes | Birmingham Rep
SPEND SPEND SPEND
THE WORLD GOES ‘ROUND
PILGERMANN
THE SNOW QUEEN
OTHER THEATRE
EMBRYONIC DREAMS | Director: Chuck Mike | Edinburgh Festival
YERMA | Director: Chuck Mike | Edinburgh Festival
OTHELLO | Director: Gwenda Hughes | New Vic Stoke
HENCEFORWARD | Director: Rob Swane | New Vic Stoke
ON THE PISTE | Director: Graham Watts | Tivoli, Dublin, Ireland
JUNK | Director: John Retallack | Den Nationale Scene Norway
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM | Director: John Retallack | Oxford Stage Company
JOHNNY BLUE | Director: John Retallack | Oxford Stage Company
THE COMIC MYSTERIES | Director: John Retallack | Oxford Stage Company
WALLFLOWERING | Director: Gwenda Hughes
THE ROVER | Director: Jonathan Church | Salisbury Playhouse
THE BANISHED CAVALIERS | Director: Jonathan Church | Salisbury Playhouse
THE CRUCIBLE | Director: Jonathan Church | Salisbury Playhouse