Michael Holt

Michael Holt

Designer

For the New Vic: Bell, Book and Candle, Gaslight, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The

Glass Menagerie, A Taste of Honey, The Price, Cider With Rosie, A Christmas Carol, Misery, East Is East, Romeo and Juliet, Big Maggie, Travels With My Aunt.

Theatre credits include: 5 Peter James thrillers including Wish You Were Dead, The House on Cold Hill, Not Dead Enough (National Tours); The Safari Party, What Every Woman Knows,Taking Steps, Wolf at the Door, Man of the Moment, Time and the Conways (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Season’s Greetings (American premiere, Joyce Theatre, New York); The Woman in Black

(Fortune Theatre, London); Absurd Person Singular (Whitehall Theatre, London); The Glory of the Garden (Duke of York’s Theatre, London); Rough Justice (Apollo Theatre, London); June Moon (Vaudeville Theatre, London); Julius Caesar (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Charley’s Aunt (centennial touring production); A Chorus of Disapproval, Way Upstream (StephenJoseph Theatre); The Turn of the Screw, Driving Miss Daisy (Oldham Coliseum); Mixed Feelings, Snakes and Ladders (TEG Productions Ltd); House and Garden (Salisbury Playhouse).

Opera credits include: La bohème (Sadler’s Wells Theatre); Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd (Brisbane); Vaughan Williams’ The Pilgrim’s Progress (Royal Opera House); The Knokke Opera Festival (Belgium) and productions for the Royal Opera House, Copenhagen.

Ballet credits include: The Sleeping Beauty, Madam Butterfly, and Romeo and Juliet (Northern Ballet) and ballet designs for the Hong Kong Ballet Company.

Michael has also written a number of books on stage and costume design and has published two books on the plays of Alan Ayckbourn.