Alex Marker
Alex trained in stage design at Wimbledon School Of Art. He has designed over 150 productions.
Recent designs include: I Found My Horn (White Bear); Funny Money, The House on Cold Hill (The Mill at Sonning), Harpy (National Tour), The Firm, The Meeting (Hampstead Theatre), The Odd Couple (Vienna’s English Theatre),Can’t Buy You Love, London Calling (Salisbury Playhouse), Staircase, Bodies, What the Women Did, The Cutting of the Cloth, The Fifth Column and A Day by the Sea (Southwark Playhouse). Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (The Theatre, Chipping Norton Theatre/The Barn Theatre Cirencester), Sherlock Holmes and the Crimson Cobbles and Around the World in 80 Days (The Theatre Chipping Norton and tours), Tape, My Real War 1914- ? (Trafalgar Studios). He has been nominated in the best set design category for the Off West End Awards 7 times.
As resident designer at the Finborough Theatre, Alex has designed over 30 productions over the last 20 years including: Jane Clegg, Lark Rise to Candleford, Red Night, Untitled, Me and Juliet, Death of Long Pig, London Wall (and transfer to St James Theatre),The White Carnation (and transfer to Jermyn Street), Dream of the Dog (and transfer to Trafalgar Studios) and Plague Over England (and transfer to the Duchess Theatre) and most of James Graham’s early plays. At the Finborough he also directed Portraits by William Douglas Home and the first production for over 60 years of J. B. Priestley’s play, Summer Day’s Dream.
Occasionally he makes elaborate scale model dioramas for Mischief Theatre’s ‘Goes Wrong’ TV appearances, but they always seem to end up destroying them! He is also director of the Questors Youth Theatre, the largest non agency run youth theatre in Britain.
Please visit Alex's web site for more information - www.alexmarker.com
Alex trained in stage design at Wimbledon School Of Art. He has designed over 150 productions.
Recent designs include: I Found My Horn (White Bear); Funny Money, The House on Cold Hill (The Mill at Sonning), Harpy (National Tour), The Firm, The Meeting (Hampstead Theatre), The Odd Couple (Vienna’s English Theatre),Can’t Buy You Love, London Calling (Salisbury Playhouse), Staircase, Bodies, What the Women Did, The Cutting of the Cloth, The Fifth Column and A Day by the Sea (Southwark Playhouse). Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (The Theatre, Chipping Norton Theatre/The Barn Theatre Cirencester), Sherlock Holmes and the Crimson Cobbles and Around the World in 80 Days (The Theatre Chipping Norton and tours), Tape, My Real War 1914- ? (Trafalgar Studios). He has been nominated in the best set design category for the Off West End Awards 7 times.
As resident designer at the Finborough Theatre, Alex has designed over 30 productions over the last 20 years including: Jane Clegg, Lark Rise to Candleford, Red Night, Untitled, Me and Juliet, Death of Long Pig, London Wall (and transfer to St James Theatre),The White Carnation (and transfer to Jermyn Street), Dream of the Dog (and transfer to Trafalgar Studios) and Plague Over England (and transfer to the Duchess Theatre) and most of James Graham’s early plays. At the Finborough he also directed Portraits by William Douglas Home and the first production for over 60 years of J. B. Priestley’s play, Summer Day’s Dream.
Occasionally he makes elaborate scale model dioramas for Mischief Theatre’s ‘Goes Wrong’ TV appearances, but they always seem to end up destroying them! He is also director of the Questors Youth Theatre, the largest non agency run youth theatre in Britain.
Please visit Alex's web site for more information - www.alexmarker.com