NANCY SURMAN
Designer
Nancy gained an honours degree in Theatre Design from
Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham (now Nottingham Trent
University).
Nancy’s recent work includes 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.
Future productions include: Allo Allo for Calibre
Productions.
Please view Nancy's gallery.
