CAROL BETERA
Designer
Carol Betera trained in
theatre design at Nottingham (Trent) University, after taking an
Honour’s Degree at University College, London.
Carol’s professional career began at the Almost Free Theatre,
London and designs included Tom Stoppard’s
15 minute Hamlet and
The Non-Stop Connolly Show by John Arden and
Margaretta D’Arcy. As associate designer at Contact Theatre,
Manchester, she designed new work by Alan Bleasdale,
No More Sitting On The Old School Bench, and classics by
Beckett, Shakespeare, Pinter, Middleton and Rowley, O’Casey,
as well as theatre-in-education productions.
At the Project Theatre Dublin, Carol designed
Waiting for Godot,
Shades of a Jellywoman and at the ICA
London
The Risen People. At the Irish National
Theatre,
Boss Grady’s Boys,
Dark Lady,
I am of Ireland,
Ceacht Houdini; at the Lyric
Belfast
Mrs McConachy’s Money and
Carthaginians; at the Gate
Dublin
Taking Steps, some of these
productions have been seen in Europe, America and Australia.
Carol’s recent work includes:
Nightmare on Abbey St,
Moby Dan and
Dog for Barrabbas at The
Project and Greenwich Theatre;
Play, Krapp’s Last Tape,
Rough For Theatre II, and
It’s a Short Life, Blue Raincoat Theatre
Company;
Sons and Daughters, Wolf of Winter, and Finders Keepers
at the Irish
National Theatre;
My Children, My Africa, and
Sanctuary Lamp for Gallowglass Theatre
Company;
Master Harold and the Boys, for Calypso;
Shadow of a Gunman, Lyric Theatre,
Belfast;
How High Is Up, at the Ark, Childrens
Cultural Centre and
Macbeth, and
Othello for Second Age.
She has designed many productions for young people with
Inter-Action, Roundabout (Nottingham), TEAM, Second Age Theatre
Company, and Barnstorm.
Carol was recently nominated for an Irish Theatre Award for her
costume designs for
How High Is Up?
view Carol's gallery
