NANCY SURMAN
Designer
Nancy gained an honours degree in Theatre Design from
Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham (now Nottingham Trent
University).
Nancy’s recent work includes: The Corstorphine Road
Nativity, Edinburgh Festival Theatre; The
Daughter-in-Law, New Vic Theatre;
Othello, Creation Theatre Co; Allo
Allo, Calibre Productions; Dangerous
Corner, New Vic Theatre; Animal Farm,
Creation Theatre Company; Can't Pay, Won't Pay!,
Oldham Coliseum; Dad's Army, Calibre Productions;
Indian Ink, Salisbury Playhouse; Mirror,
Mirror, The Play House, Birmingham; Romeo and
Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, for
the British Shakespeare Company; Private Lives,
British Playhouse Theatre, Singapore; The Accrington
Pals, The Dukes, Lancaster; To Kill A Mocking
Bird, Salisbury Playhouse; Get Ken
Barlow, Palace Theatre Watford; a repertoire season of
Much Ado About Nothing, Trojan Women and
Privates on Parade at Jermyn Street Theatre;
The Waters of the Moon, The Duchess of
Malfi and The Rivals (Salisbury
Playhouse); major tours of Aspects of Love and
Noel and Gertie (Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage);
the stage premieres of Hanif Kurishi’s The Buddha of
Suburbia and My Beautiful Laundrette
(SNAP Theatre Company) and Private Lives (Bolton Octagon).
Nancy designed the world premieres of Rock & Roll and
Barbirolli, SNAP Theatre Company; The Road to
Hell and Johnny Watkins Walks on Water,
Birmingham Repertory Theatre and A Stinging Sea,
Glasgow Citizens Theatre.
Other productions include The Secret Rapture, and
The Winter’s Tale, Salisbury Playhouse;
Talent, Mercury Theatre, Colchester and Watford
Palace; Kaahini and Bonded,
Birmingham Repertory Theatre; new adaptations of Sense and
Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice,
Tom Jones, Far from the Madding
Crowd and Maurice, SNAP Theatre Company;
touring productions of Beautiful Thing,
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, He Said, She
Said, and Don Quixote, Oxfordshire
Touring Theatre Company; The Final Appearance of Miss Mamie
Stuart and Stepping Out,Torch Theatre and
Laurel and Hardy, Cheltenham Everyman.
Nancy designed Maxim Gorky’s Barbarians for
Salisbury Playhouse, for which she was nominated for the TMA best
designer award 2003.
Please view Nancy's gallery.
