Paul Wills – Designer

Paul’s theatre designs include Drum Belly (Abbey Theatre, Dublin); Barnum (Chichester Festival Theatre); The Lightning Child, Doctor Faustus, Frontline (Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre); Di and Viv and Rose (Hampstead Theatre); Making Noise Quietly, Anna Christie, The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Cut (Donmar Warehouse); The Acid Test, Breathing Corpses (Royal Court); Saved, Blasted, Punk Rock, Chair, The Under Room, Have I None (Lyric Hammersmith); My Fair Lady, A Number, Blue/Orange, Gladiator Games, Sisters (Sheffield Crucible); Finding Neverland (Leicester Curve); Ben Hur (Watermill); A Human Being Died That Night, The Stock Da’Wa (Hampstead Studio); Novecento (Donmar Warehouse season at Trafalgar Studios); Orpheus Descending, 1984, Macbeth, See How They Run (Royal Exchange); Yerma (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Treasure Island (set design, Rose Theatre, Kingston); Dandy in the Underworld, Overspill (Soho); Serious Money (Birmingham Rep); The Indian Wants the Bronx (Young Vic); Prometheus Bound (Classic Stage Company, New York/Sound London); Home (Bath Theatre Royal); Pornography (Birmingham Rep/Traverse/Tricycle/Bath); Mammals (Bush Theatre); The Field (Tricycle Theatre); Little Voice (Watermill); The Changeling, Mother Courage (set design, ETT); Crestfall (Theatre 503); and Sleeping Beauty (Landmark Productions/Helix Theatre, Dublin).

His opera designs include Intermezzo (Buxton Festival); Rusalka (English Touring Opera); Sweetness and Badness (Welsh National Opera); and The Magic Flute (National Theatre of Palestine).        www.paulwills.co.uk