dinah england, designer
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(associate designer 1997 - 2004)
Dinah trained in theatre design at Nottingham Trent University and graduated in 1995. She first worked with Rodney Ford, Head of Design, as a student on placement with the Dukes Playhouse, Lancaster.
Her association with the Queen's Theatre began in 1996 as assistant designer to Rodney on the production of Cabaret and then as full-time scenic artist for three months. In 1997 she returned to the Queen’s Theatre but this time as Associate Designer and, apart from a brief period in 1998/1999, has either designed or painted almost all the theatres in-house productions since that time.
Dinah designed set and costumes for the main house productions of Hard Times, The Entertainer, Having a Ball, Jack the Ripper, Don’t Dress for Dinner, A Chorus of Disapproval, Dracula, What the Butler Saw, The Glass Menagerie, Jack and the Beanstalk, One for the Road, Blithe Spirit, April in Paris, The Ghost Train, The Lost World, Brief Encounter, Sleuth and Sleeping Beauty, Romeo and Juliet, Keep on Running and designed costume for Blitz! and Perfect Pitch (a collaboration with Hull Truck).
She also designed set and costumes for the community plays The Champion of the Horned Church, Check it Out, Down the River and Up the Road, Bubbles in the Air, The Path of the Brave and costumes for Frank Sinatra. Tom Jones. And Me!
In May 2004 Dinah decided to leave to become a freelance designer though she fully intends to keep up her links with her friends at the Queen’s.
