Alfie Heywood
Theatre and Performance Designer
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts; First Class BA Hons in Theatre and Performance Design 2013-16
Alfie is currently designing the musical, 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole', which opens at the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch in April 2022.
Since June 2018, Alfie has been Associate Designer for Christopher Oram working on Garsington Opera's 'Turn of the Screw', West End play 'Bitter Wheat' and Northern Ballet's 'Geisha'. They have just designed 'The Mirror and the Light' which has recently finished its run at the West End's Gielgud Theatre. They are currently designing 'The Wreckers' which opens at Houston Grand Opera in Autumn 2022.
Set and Costume Designer for 'Ellen and Rigby', July 2021 - Liverpool's Royal Court
Set and Costume Designer for 'Start', May 2021 - Mountview Academy, London
Set and Costume Designer for 'Lost in Colomendy', January 2020 - Liverpool's Royal Court
Set and Costume Designer for 'Guys and Dolls', October 2019 - Mountview Academy, London
From Jan-April 2019 Alfie assisted designer Peter McKintosh on various West End plays, operas and musicals.
From June 2018 to October 2018 Alfie assisted designer Ben Stones working on 'The Producers' at the Royal Exchange Manchester, 'The Merry Widow' at the English National Opera and 'The Watsons' at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
From July 2017 to March 2018 Alfie assisted Stage Designer Jon Bausor. Working on various West End shows, operas and touring musicals.
Assistant designer to Grace Smart for 'Killer Joe', April-June 2018 - Trafalgar Studios, London
Co-Set Designer for 'Lord of the Flies', March 2018 - Greenwich Theatre, London
Set Designer for 'Unspoken Spoken Rules', February 2018 - Candoco Dance Company, London
Set and Costume Designer for 'Omnibus', June 2017 - Unity Theatre, Liverpool
Art Department for 'Take That', April 2017 - Take That Wonderland Tour + An Evening with Take That, ITV
Design Assistant for 'Save the Children Charity Ball', February 2017 + 2018 - Roundhouse, London
Art Department for 'London International Horse Show', December 2016 + 2017 - Olympia, London
Set Designer for 'Liver Birdsong', November 2016 - Epstein Theatre, Liverpool
Art Department for 'Let it Shine', November 2016 - BBC
Set and Costume Designer for Frankenstein, October 2016 - Everyman Studio Theatre, Liverpool
Art Department for 'Coldplay', August 2016 - Coldplays 'Head Full of Dreams' Tour
Art Department for 'Take That', July 2016 - Hyde Park, British Summertime Festival
Art Department for ‘Misty Buckley, The Park’, June 2015, 2016, 2017 - Glastonbury
Set Designer for ‘It Doesn't Matter', April 2016 - Sennheiser Studio, LIPA
Set and Costume Designer for ‘Crimes of the Heart’, March 2016 – Sennheiser Studio, LIPA
Set Designer for ‘Witches of Eastwick’, November 2015 – Paul McCartney Auditorium, LIPA
Art Department for ‘Moonsongs’, May 2015 – Giffords Circus, Touring
Set and Costume Designer for ‘Tick Tick Boom’, April 2015 – Unity Theatre, Liverpool
References:
Stephen Fletcher
Director for 'Ellen and Rigby'
Ashley Shairp
Head of Theatre and Performance Design at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
0151 330 3234
Christopher Oram
Stage Designer
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