Sean Crowley

Design Educator & Theatre Designer

Contact Details: Theatre Design Department, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, castle Grounds,
Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3ER. Sean.Crowley@rwcmd.ac.uk
2015
Designs
Jack and the Beanstalk
Brief Encounter
Rosies War
The Story of Tom Jones

The Torch Theatre

The Torch Theatre
Theatr Nanog
National tour

Director Peter Doran

Director Peter Doran
Director Phil Harries
Director Geinor Jones

Director of Drama at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Chair of the Society of British Theatre Designers
Linbury Prize Committee Member
OISTAT Executive Committee Member
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Honorary Doctorate of Swansea University
2014
Designs
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
How the Other Half Love
A Childs Christmas in Wales
Gotz von Berlichingen

The Torch Theatre

The Torch Theatre
The Grand Theatre Swansea
Jagsthausen festival

Director Peter Doran

Director Peter Doran
Director Michael Bogdanov
Director Michael Bogdanov

Director of Drama at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Chair of the Society of British Theatre Designers
Linbury Prize Committee Member
OISTAT Executive Committee Member
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2013
Designs
Aladdin
The Turn of the Screw
King Lear

The Torch Theatre

The Torch Theatre
Bkscsabai Jkai Sznhz Hungary

Director Peter Doran

Director Peter Doran
Director Christopher Rolls

Director of Drama at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Chair of the Society of British Theatre Designers
Linbury Prize Committee Member
Project Leader World Stage Design Cardiff 2013
Winner of Arts & Culture Inspire Wales Award
OISTAT Executive Committee Member
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2012
Designs
The Kings Speech
Dick Whittington
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Elwyn

St.Pauli Theater Hamburg

The Torch Theatre
The Torch Theatre
Aberystwyth Arts Centre

Director of Drama at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Chair of the Society of British Theatre Designers
External Examiner Central Saint Martins & Wimbledon College of Art
Linbury Prize Committee Member

Director Michael Bogdanov

Director Peter Doran
Director Peter Doran
Michael Bogdanov

Sean Crowley
Design Educator & Theatre Designer
Guest Speaker at USITT conference Long Beach
Project Leader World Stage Design Cardiff 2013
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2011
Designs
The Christmas Cuckoo
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Nevilles Island.
Cappuccino Girls
Transformation & Revelation

The Torch Theatre

The Torch Theatre
The Hamburg Kammerspieler Theatre
Site Specific Musical
UK national exhibition

Director Peter Doran

Director Peter Doran
Director Michael Bogdanov
Director Mal Pope
RWCMD Cardiff

Director of Drama at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

External Examiner Central Saint Martins & Wimbledon College of Art
Linbury Prize Committee Member
Guest Speaker at USITT conference Kansas
Project Leader World Stage Design Cardiff 2013
2010
Designs
Jack and the Beanstalk
An Inspector Calls
Faking it
The Caretaker
Elling part II

The Torch Theatre

The Torch Theatre
Welsh National tour
Theatr Genedleithol
the Hamburg Kammerspieler Theatre

Director Peter Doran

Director Peter Doran
Director Phil Clark
Director Cefin Roberts
Director Michael Bogdanov

Director of Drama at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Vice Chair Oistat Education Commission
Guest Speaker at Pacific Collaborators Conference Tokyo
Guest Speaker at USITT conference Kansas
External Examiner for Central Saint Martins & Wimbledon College of Art
Linbury Prize Committee Member
Project Leader World Stage Design Cardiff 2013

2009
Designs
Pinocchio
The Thorn Birds
The BFG
Black Comedy

The Torch Theatre

Wales Theatre Company
Northampton Theatre Royal
Theater am Kurfrstendamm, Berlin

Appointed Director of at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Chair of the Association of Courses in Theatre Design
Vice Chair OISTAT Education Commission
Guest Speaker at OISTAT World Congress Conference Seoul
Guest Speaker at USITT conference Cincinnati
External Examiner for Central Saint Martins & Wimbledon College of Art
Linbury Prize Committee Member

Director Peter Doran

Director Michael Bogdanov
Director Phil Clark
Director Michael Bogdanov

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Design Educator & Theatre Designer

2008
Designs
Morfa
Cinderella
Romeo & Juliet
Nevilles island
Y Pair
Elling
The Hired Man

Theatr Na NNog.
the Torch Theatre
Wales Theatre Company
The Torch Theatre
Theatr Genedleithol
The Hamburg Kammerspieler Theatre
The Torch Theatre

Director Geinor Jones

Director Peter Doran
Director Michael Bogdanov
Director Peter Doran
Director Judith Roberts
Director Michael Bogdanov
Director Peter Doran

Head of Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Chair of the Association of Courses in Theatre Design
Vice Chair Oistat Education Commission Helsinki
External Examiner for London College of Fashion
Linbury Prize Committee Member
Project Leader Prague Quadrennial Scenofest 2007
2007
Designs
Servant of two masters
Wales Theatre Company
Director Michael Bogdanov
West Side Story
Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Director Michael Bogdanov
The Abolition of Slavery Bicentennial Celebration,
WMC Cardiff
Director Michael Bogdanov
Aqua Nero
Script Cymru, Chapter Arts, Cardiff. Director Simon Harris
Waiting for Godot
the Hamburg Kammerspieler Theatre Director Michael Bogdanov
Made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
Head of Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Chair of the Association of Courses in Theatre Design
Guest Speaker at USITT conference Phoenix
Speaker at the Society of British Theatre Designers Schools Conference
External Examiner for London College of Fashion
Linbury Prize Committee Member
Project Leader Prague Quadrennial Scenofest 2007
2006
Designs
Hans Christian Anderson
the Sherman Theatre
The Snow Queen
the Torch Theatre,
A Christmas Carol
Wales Theatre Company
A Childs Christmas in Wales.
Wales Theatre Company
Amazing Grace
Wales Theatre Company
Noises off
The Torch Theatre.
The Trial of Elgan Jones
Theatr Na NNog.
The Princess and the Hunter
Theatr Na NNog.
The Dresser
the Hamburg Kammerspieler Theatre
Only a Matter of Time
The Torch Theatre
The Holocaust Memorial Concert Wales Millennium Centre
Head of Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
Chair of the Association of Courses in Theatre Design
Vice Chair Oistat Education Commission
External Examiner for London College of Fashion
External Examiner Central School of Speech and Drama
Linbury Prize Committee Member

Director Phil Clark

Director James Williams
Director Michael Bogdanov
Director Michael Bogdanov
Director Michael Bogdanov
Director Peter Doran
Director Geinor Jones
Director Geinor Jones
Director Michael Bogdanov
Director Peter Doran
Director Michael Bogdanov

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Design Educator & Theatre Designer
Project Leader Prague Quadrennial Scenofest 2007

2005
Designs
Merlin and the Cave of Wonders
Aladdin
Hamlet
Dead Funny
Stowaway
Drws Arall Ir Coed
Frongoth

The Sherman Theatre

The Torch Theatre.
Wales Theatre Company
The Torch Theatre
Theatr Na NNog
Script Cymru.
North Wales Stage Co.

Director Phil Clark

Director Peter Doran.
Director Michael Bogdanov
Director Peter Doran.
Director Geinor Jones
Director Judith Roberts
Director Ian Rowlands

Head of Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Chair of the Association of Courses in Theatre Design
Vice Chair Oistat Education Commission
External Examiner for London College of Fashion
External Examiner Central School of Speech and Drama
Linbury Prize Committee Member
Project Leader Prague Quadrennial Scenofest 2007
Guest Speaker at the Institut Del Theatr, European Design Education Conference, Barcelona
2004
Designs
Santas Missing Trousers.
Danny Champion of the World
Bedroom Farce
Shakespeare Trilogy

The Torch Theatre

The Sherman Theatre
The Torch Theatre
Wales Theatre Company

Director Peter Doran.

Director Phil Clark
Director Peter Doran.
Director Michael Bogdanov

Head of Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Chair of the Association of Courses in Theatre Design
Vice Chair Oistat Education Commission
External Examiner for London College of Fashion
External Examiner Central School of Speech and Drama
Linbury Prize Committee Member
Oistat Education Commission and Workshop speaker. Istanbul
2003
Designs
The Christmas Cuckoo
The Borrowers
Of Mice and Men
Under Milkwood
Caitlin
One for the Road

The Torch Theatre

The Sherman Theatre
The Torch Theatre
Theatr Gwynedd
The Sherman Theatre
The Torch Theatre

Head of Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Chair of the Association of Courses in Theatre Design
Vice Chair Oistat Education Commission
External Examiner for London College of Fashion
External Examiner Central School of Speech and Drama
Linbury Prize Committee Member
Oistat Education Commission and Workshop, speaker. Barcelona

Director Peter Doran

Director Phil Clark
Director Peter Doran
Director Ian Rowlands
Director Phil Clark
Director Peter Doran

Sean Crowley
Design Educator & Theatre Designer

2002
Designs
The Caretaker
Our Lady of Sligo,
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
Danny
Babe

The Torch Theatre

Town Hall Theatre Galway
The Torch Theatre
The Torch Theatre
The Sherman Theatre

Director Dave Bond

Director Ian Rowlands
Director Peter Doran
Director Peter Doran
Director Phil Clark

Head of Design at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

Acting Chair of the Association of Courses in Theatre Design
Organizer of the Prague Quadrennial British Schools Exhibition
External Examiner for The BA Theatre Design course. Croydon College of Art.
External Examiner, Wimbledon School of Art
Audit Committee Central School of Speech and Drama
Oistat Education Commission and Workshop speaker. Taiwan
Linbury Prize Committee Member
2001
Designs
Art & Guff.
Ysbrid Beca
Inside Out.
James and the Giant Peach
Jack and the Beanstalk
Little Shop of Horrors

Sgript Cymru the Soho Theatre

Sgript Cymru, Welsh Tour
Theatr y Byd
the Sherman Theatre
the Torch Theatre
The Torch Theatre

Director Bethan Jones

Director Bethan Jones
Director Chris Morris
Director Phil Clark
Director Peter Doran
Director Peter Doran

Head of Design at the Welsh College of Music and Drama

Acting Chair of the Association of Courses in Theatre Design
Organizer of the Prague Quadrennial British Schools Exhibition
External Examiner for The BA Theatre Design course. Croydon College of Art.
2000
Designs
Christmas Crackers
Pinocchio
Blue Remembered Hills
Flesh & Blood,
The Oyster Catchers
Radio Cymru,
Dywedd y Byd
Yr Hen Blant
Pacific

The Sherman Theatre

The Torch Theatre
The Torch Theatre
The Sherman Theatre
The Sherman Theatre
Dalier Slyw. Welsh Tour
Theatr Gwynedd
Dalier Sylw
Theatr Y Byd, Welsh tour

Director Phil Clark

Director Peter Doran
Director Peter Doran
Director Phil Clark
Director Phil Clark
Director Bethan Jones
Director Sian Summers
Director Bethan Jones
Director Ian Rowlands

Head of Design at the Welsh College of Music and Drama

External Examiner for The BA Theatre Design course. Croydon College of Art
1999
Designs
New South Wales
Horrible Histories
Radio Cymru
A Childs Christmas in Wales
Abigails Party.
Aladdin

Theatre Y Byd U.K. tour

The Sherman Theatre
Dalier Slyw. Welsh Tour
Theatr N= Nog
The Torch Theatre
The Torch Theatre

Director Ian Rowlands

Director Phil Clark
Director Bethan Jones
Director Gaynor Jones
Director Peter Doran
Director Peter Doran

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Design Educator & Theatre Designer
Y Madogwys

Dalier Slyw Welsh Tour

Director Bethan Jones

Appointed Head of Design at the Welsh College of Music and Drama

External Examiner for the BA Theatre Design course. Croydon College of Art
1998
Designs
Dancing at Lughnasa
The Torch Theatre
Tai
Dalier Slyw Welsh Tour
Pulling the Wool.
The Sherman Theatre/Grand Theatre
Nevilles Island.
The Torch Theatre
Christmas Cat and the Pudding Pirates
The Torch Theatre
The Secret Seven
The Sherman Theatre
Alice in Wonderland
Moving Being
The Merchant of Venice
St. Fagans Theatre Festival
Rumpelstiltskin
St.Fagans Theatre Festival
Blue Heron in the Womb
Theatre Y Byd, The Tron Theatre Glasgow.
Tartuffe
Welsh College of Music and Drama

Director Peter Doran

Director Bethan Jones
Director Phil Clark
Director Peter Doran
Director Peter Doran
Director Phil Clark
Director Geoff Moore
Director Peter Doran.
Director Leslie Ross
Director Ian Rowlands
Director Robin Midgley

Appointed Lecturer in Design at the Welsh College of Music and Drama

1997
Designs
Company
Hansel and Gretel
Mayosata
The Importance of Being Earnest
Learning the Language.
A Slags Gig
Hansel and Gretel
As You Like It.
Lludwr Garreg
As You Like It

Welsh College of Music and Drama

The Torch Theatre
Dalier Sylw. Welsh Tour
The Torch Theatre
The Sherman Theatre
The Sherman Theatre
St. Fagans Theatre Festival
St. Fagans Theatre Festival
Theatre Y Byd. Welsh Tour
The Sherman Theatre

Director Ian Forrest.

Director Mike James
Director Bethan Jones.
Director Mike James
Director Geoff Moore.
Director Menna Price.
Director Mike James.
Director Peter Doran.
Director Iain Rowlands.
Director Mathew Bailey.

Television Design
A Slags Gig. Learning the Language. Taliesin for H.T.V. Producer Michelle Ryan
1988-97.
Design Lecturer (part time).
Welsh College of Music and Drama. Production Supervision. Model making. Mask Making. Technical Drawing.
Costume Drawing.
1996
Designs
The Emperors New Clothes
The Rise and fall of little Voice
The Beggars Opera
Medea
Y Groesfford.
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Oh Merlin
A Duet for One

The Torch Theatre

The Torch Theatre
Welsh National Youth Theatre
Welsh National Youth Theatre
Dalier Sylw National Eisteddfod
St. Fagans Theatre Festival
St. Fagans Theatre Festival
The Torch Theatre

Director Mike James

Director Mike James
Director Iain Stuart-Ferguson
Director Menna Price
Director Bethan Jones
Director Peter Doran
Director Mike Cunningham
Director Mike James

Sean Crowley
Design Educator & Theatre Designer

1995
Designs
Hamlet
The Amazing Mr. Toad
A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Epsom Downs
Merched Troya
The Frog Prince
Copper Kingdom

The Danish Royal Opera

The Torch Theatre
The Torch Theatre
Welsh National Youth Theatre
Welsh National Youth Theatre
Dyffryn Gardens Theatre Festival
The Grand Theatre Swansea

Director John Cox.

Director Mike James
Director Mike James
Director Paul Clemence
Director Menna Price
Director Mike James
Director Iain Stuart Ferguson

1994
Designs
The Pied Piper
Ten Times Table
Kalafs Quest
Woyzeck
Llwarch Hen
Assassins
The Big Bad Wolf
Noyes Fludde.

The Torch Theatre.

Welsh College of Music & Drama
Welsh National Opera
Welsh National Youth Theatre
Welsh National Youth Theatre
Welsh National Youth Theatre
Dyffryn Gardens Theatre Festival
Swansea Festival.

Director Mike James

Director Paul Clemence
Director Iain Stuart Ferguson
Director Paul Clemence.
Director Michael Harvey
Director Iain Stuart Ferguson
Director Mike James
Director Godfrey Evans

Model making, Design assistant to,

Paul Brown. King Arthur. The Royal Opera House
1993
Designs
Cinderella
Why dont you talk to me

Welsh National Opera

Welsh National Youth Theatre

Director Iain Stuart Ferguson.

Director Paul Clemence.

Model making, Design Assistance to:

Paul Brown. Lady Macbeth of Matensk. The Metropolitan Opera. Don Giovani. The Israeli National Opera. Hamlet.
Monte Carlo Opera.
Ashley Martin Davies. I Due Foscari. Scottish Opera. Murder in the Cathedral. The Royal Shakespeare Company.
1992
Designs
Gaslight.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
The Bedbug.

Hornchurch.
Welsh National Youth Theatre.
Welsh National Youth Theatre.

Event Design
World Airline Entertainment Association Awards Ceremony.

Director Sean OConnor

Director Paul Clemence
Director. Dorian Thomas.

The Grosvenor House Hotel

Model Making, Design Assistance to:

Paul Brown. Padmavati. The Bastille Opera. Les Boreades Birmingham Touring Opera.
Yolanda Sonnabend. The Nutcracker. Strasbourg Ballet.

Sean Crowley
Design Educator & Theatre Designer
1991
Designs
The Marriage of Figaro. Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Dance Overture 91. Wimbledon Theatre
Undue Care and Attention the Place, Extreme Measures Dance

Director Lyall Watson.

The London Studio Centre.
Choreographer Quinny Sacks.

Other work
Animal Construction:
Scenic Artist

Prince Edward Theatre

Cheek by Jowl

Children of Eden
As You Like It.

Sean Crowley
Design Educator & Theatre Designer
1990
Designs
West Side Story
Dance Overture
The Seagull
The House of Bernada Alba.

Wimbledon Theatre
Saddlers Wells
The London Studio Centre
The London Studio Centre

1989
Designs
Showboat. Wimbledon Theatre
Dance Overture. Wimbledon Theatre
Godspell. The Westminster Theatre
The Long Goodbye. The London Studio Centre.
1988
Designs
The Tempest. Dyffryn Gardens Theatre Festival.
Williams.
Dance Overture 88. Wimbledon Theatre.
The Miracle Plays. St. David=s Hall. Cardiff.
Williams.
1987
Designs
Carousel.
Wimbledon Theatre.
Oedipus.
The Bloomsbury Theatre.
Peer Gynt.
Welsh National Youth Theatre.
Williams.
Dance Overture 87. The Bloomsbury Theatre.

London Studio Centre.

London Studio Centre.
Director Iain Dewar.
Director Veronica Duffey.

London Studio Centre.

London Studio Centre.
London Studio Centre.
Director Iain Dewar.

Director Alan Vaughan

London Studio Centre.
Director Alan Vaughan

The London Studio Centre.

Director Gareth Davies.
Director Alan Vaughan
The London Studio Centre.

Model Making, Design Assistance to:

Richard Hudson. Too Clever By Half. The Old Vic.
Peter Falmer. Giselle. Strasbourg Ballet.
Tom Cairns. Billy Budd. English National Opera.
1986
Designs
The Malady. The National Film School. A 45-minute period fantasy
Chicago. The Logan Hall. The London Studio Centre

Director Kim Flitcroft

Director Ian Dewar

Model Making, Design Assistance to:

Richard Hudson. Count Ori, A Night at the Chinese Opera. Kent Opera. Manon. Opera North. The
Emperor. The Royal Court.
Mark Thompson. Cabaret. The Strand Theatre. Measure for Measure. The Royal Shakespeare
Company.
Anthony Ward. Alice in Wonderland. The Lyric Theatre.
Wind In The Willows. The Mermaid Theatre