BIOGRAPHY
Ryan Dawson Laight
Ryan Dawson Laight is a Costume & Set Designer and Stylist working extensively in Theatre and Dance.
Set and Costume Design includes The Lightning Thief (The Other Palace); My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) (Ambassadors Theatre/Garrick Theatre/Turbine Theatre); I Wish (Unicorn Theatre); A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain (Gate Theatre/Paines Plough); Wind in The Willows, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, A Christmas Carol, Grimm Tales, The Tiger Who Came To Tea (Chichester Festival Theatre); Half-Empty Glasses, The Ultimate Pickle (Paines Plough/Edinburgh/Tour); Just So (Barn Theatre); Frankenstein’s Monster Is Drunk And The Sheep Have Jumped All The Fences (Belfast International Arts Festival/Big Telly/59E59); Torch Song Trilogy (Turbine Theatre); Duckie (Royal Festival Hall); Black (Unity Theatre Liverpool/Soho Theatre); Le Gateau Chocolat (Menier Chocolate Factory); Henry VIII (Guildhall); HMS Pinafore, Chess, Blondel, The Mikado (Union Theatre).
Costume Design includes The Creakers (Theatre Royal Plymouth/Southbank Centre); Burlesque: The Musical (Manchester Opera House/Glasgow Theatre Royal); Twelfth Night, La Cage aux Folles (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Redlands (Chichester Festival Theatre); Wild About You (Theatre Royal Drury Lane). Ryan was Associate Designer for Creation Theatre where he designed over 25 shows.
Dance includes Gravity (NYDT), Blak Whyte Gray (Barbican, nominated for Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production), REDD (Barbican); Nutcracker (Southbank Centre); Drunk (Leicester Curve/Bridewell); Until We Sleep (Sadler’s Wells/International Tour); Good Youts Walk (UK Tour); BLKDOG (Sadler’s Wells, Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production); Wasteland (UK Tour), Coal (UK Tour, UK Theatre Award for Achievement in Dance).
Awards include WhatsOnStage Award for Best Costume Design for La Cage aux Folles; nominated for Olivier Award for Best Costume Design for La Cage aux Folles.