alex marker - theatre designer
Member of the Association of British Theatre Technicians
and the Society of British Theatre Designers



Training
Wimbledon School of Art B.A. (Hons) Theatre Design 1997-2000

Plague Over England by Nicholas de Jongh Finborough Theatre Tamara Harvey
The Pink Bedroom by Tennessee Williams The Courtyard Theatre Brian Timoney
An Eligible Man by Rosemary Friedman New End Theatre Ninon Jerome
The Viewing Room by Daniel J. Rubin Arts Theatre A.C.Wilson
Little Madam by James Graham Finborough Theatre Kate Wasserberg
Schools’ Theatre Festival various authors Young Vic Kate Wasserberg
Origin: Unknown by Daniel Lawrence Taylor Theatre Royal Stratford East Ray McKen
Love Child by Joanna Murray Smith Finborough Theatre Nicolette Kay
My Real War. 1914 - ? adapt Tricia Thorns National Tour Tricia Thorns
Sweet Charity by Simon, Coleman and Fields Theatre Royal Drury Lane John Sheerman
King Arthur by Keith Dewhurst Arcola Theatre John Terry/Mike Bartlett
Eden’s Empire by James Graham Finborough Theatre Gemma Fairlie
The Representative by Rolf Hochhuth Finborough Theatre Kate Wasserberg
Cooking With Elvis by Lee Hall Lyceum Theatre, Crewe Keith Myers
Gym and Tonic by John Godber Lyceum Theatre, Crewe Keith Myers
The Opposite Sex by David Tristram Lyceum Theatre, Crewe Keith Myers
Inside Job
by Brian Clemens Lyceum Theatre, Crewe Keith Myers
Red Night
by James Lansdale Hodson Finborough Theatre Tricia Thorns
Lark Rise to Candleford by Keith Dewhurst Finborough Theatre John Terry/Mike Bartlett
Hush
by Samantha Wright Pleasance, Edinburgh/Arcola Donnacadh O’Briain
Albert’s Boy by James Graham Finborough Theatre Max Lewendel
Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams
by Nilo Cruz Finborough Theatre Michael Gieleta
Trelawny of the ‘Wells’ by Arthur Wing Pinero Finborough Theatre Phil Willmott
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Broadway Theatre Catford Michael Bernardin
Agamemnon & Androcles and the Lion Aeschylus & Shaw The Scoop, City Hall Phil Willmott
Soldiers by Rolf Hochhuth Finborough Theatre John Terry
Oklahoma! by Rodgers and Hammerstein Wimbledon Theatre Rachel Warr
Been So Long by Ché Walker Broadway Theatre Catford Hanna Berrigan
Marilia Pêra Sings Ary Baroso Bloomsbury Theatre Zadoque Lopez
Kaye’s The Word Tony Hare’s celebration of Danny Kaye New End Theatre Adèle Anderson

Awards

I have been associate designer and an integral part of Neil McPherson’s award winning Finborough Theatre team since March 2002.
At the Peter Brook Empty Space Awards 2005 we won the first ever Dan Crawford Pub Theatre Award.
Since 2004 I have also been
associate designer and a director of Shapeshifter, winner of the Mark Marvin Rent Subsidy Award 2004 and the Peter Wolf Theatre Trust Award 2006, both at the Peter Brook Empty Space awards.

My work has been exhibited in

2002 2D-3D: Design for Performance 1999-2002 Millennium Galleries, Sheffield
2004
Behind the Scenes: 75 years of The Questors Theatre Gunnersbury Park Museum, Ealing
2004 & 2005
Peter Brook Empty Space Awards Display The Theatre Museum, Covent Garden
2007
Collaborators: UK Design for Performance 2003-2007 Waverley Building. Nottingham Trent University

Education

2004 – present Part-time lecturer, Technical Theatre Kingston College
1997- present
Director, The Questors Youth Theatre I run the largest professional non-agency youth theatre in West
London. Its 26 drama groups cater for 500 6 to 18 year-olds. I
organise the programming and development of productions, selection of new teaching staff and specialist workshops and site-specific performance events.

Referees
Neil McPherson, Artistic Director, The Finborough Theatre, HYPERLINK "mailto:admin@finboroughtheatre.co.uk"
admin@finboroughtheatre.co.uk
Graham Cowley, Producer, Out of Joint, 7 Thane Works, Thane Villas, London N7 7NU HYPERLINK "mailto:grayham@outofjoint.co.uk"
grayham@outofjoint.co.uk