Spyway Projects

Theatre and Performance Art

Annette Sumption

Annette has 30 years experience of Theatre design and has worked at The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield; The Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke; Contact Theatre, Manchester and in London’s West End.

Annette has designed large conferences at the Bournemouth International Centre and come up with exciting and innovative concepts for wedding theming. Having specialised in interior design pain effects her murals are striking and witty

 

Weymouth College                           2005 to date

Wardrobe technician and costume design lecturer on BND

and Foundation Degree Courses

                                    

Spyway Projects, Swanage, Dorset   1992 to date

Conference design for Rotary International throughout the UK, including Bournemouth International Centre, Brighton Pavilion and Blackpool Winter Gardens.

Costume and set design for national tour “Captain Pugwash”

Freelance set and costume design

Freelance scene painter, costumier and muralist

World Premiere production of Guy Hibbert’s “Tilting Ground”

Large costume props for Lucie Skeaping tour to Eastern Europe

Resident Designer, Throughout UK           1977-1990

Sheffield Crucible Theatre, Contact Theatre, Manchester,

Watermill Theatre, Newbury, Horseshoe Theatre, Basingstoke,

Oxfordshire Touring Theatre and the Royal Theatre,

Northampton.

 

Achievements

Classical and modern theatre productions

Children’s shows and pantomime

World Premiere production of Victoria Wood’s “Talent”

Small scale, touring and Main House productions

                                

Notable productions

Classical:  “Macbeth”, “All’s Well That Ends Well”

“Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “Rosmersholm” 

Musicals:”Grease” and “Heartbreak Hotel”

Contemporary: “When I was a Girl I Used to Scream and

Shout,”  “The Sash”, “The Caretaker”, “Entertaining Mr.

Sloane”, “Black and Blue”, “On Golden Pond”.

Freelance Designer

Design and paint or make jobs throughout the UK

including Edinburgh, Coventry, Leicester, Basingstoke and

The West End

 

BA (Hons) Theatre Design Trent Polytechnic

Cfet   Teaching qualification

City and Guilds Interior Design Paint Effects

 

Contact Annette

07761 953359

annettesumption@operamail.com

annette_sumption@weymouth.ac.uk

Annette Sumption

Designer

Theatre, Set painting and costume design

Annette Sumption