Sara Perks

CURRENT PROJECTS INCLUDE:
Arabian Nights in the Speigel Tent at Oxford ;  Dead Funny for Oldham Coliseum and touring; Death of A Salesman for the Mercury Theatre, Colchester.

DESIGNS THIS YEAR INCLUDE:
Return To The Forbidden Planet large scale tour;  Singin' In The Rain at The Courtyard, Hereford;  The Merchant of Venice - site specific at Oxford Castle for Creation; The Crypt Project for Sincera Projections, in the recently exhumed Wren church, St Andrews, on Holborn Circus, London; Miss Julie, A Midsummer Night's Dream,The Importance of Being Earnest for the Mercury Theatre, Colchester; Be My Baby for The Dukes, Lancaster;  The Deep Blue Sea at the Northcott, Exeter.

OTHER CREDITS INCLUDE:
Romeo and Juliet (English Touring Theatre - national tour and Hong Kong Arts Festival);  The Elixir of Love for Grange Park Opera; The Ladykillers, Dancing At Lughnasa, As You like It, Romeo and Juliet  and Habeus Corpus (Northcott, Exeter), The Seagull, Twelfth Night, To Kill A Mockingbird, Macbeth, Private Lives , Caucasian Chalk Circle (Mercury Theatre, Colchester);  Caucasian Chalk Circle, Steven Berkoff’s The Trial (Vanburgh Theatre, London for RADA); Honeymoon Suite, John Gabriel Borkman,  King Lear (Associate Design for English Touring Theatre -  national tours, Royal Court and The Old Vic, London); Reunion and Dark Pony (Kings Head, London); Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet for Creation Theatre Company, Oxford;  Si J'etais Roi for Opera Omnibus; The Owl and the Pussycat (Redgrave Theatre, Bristol);  Aeroplane Bones , Gringos, The Bald Prima Donna(Bristol Old Vic, and BAC); Belle (The Gate Theatre, London); Skylight (Dukes Theatre, Lancaster);  Frankie and Tommy (Lyric, Hammersmith); Union Street , Monkey!  and The Lost Domain (Plymouth Theatre Royal and The Drum); The Old Curiosity Shop (Southwark Playhouse, London); and the original and several subsequent productions of the cult musical Saucy Jack and The Space Vixens, the last being in its own nightclub in London Bridge.
 
AWARDS:
BBC Vision Design: Costume 1998
John Elvery Theatre Design Award 1998
Edinburgh Festival Fringe First 1995

Sara trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and University of Kent