TOWNSEND THEATRE PRODUCTIONS - Key Persons
CARL DAVIES
(Designer)
Carl Davies trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, graduating in 2004.
Credits include:
Looking through Glass, Alix In Wondergarthen (Difficult Stage) The trials of Oscar Wilde, Still Life, Stage Beauty, Much Ado About Nothing, Dangerous Liaisons, She Stoops to Conquer, Moll Flanders, The Importance of Being Earnest, Canterbury Tales, (Mappa Mundi) The Falcon's Malteser, Crimes Against Christmas (New and Old Friends) Outlaw, Sleeping Beauty, Alice Adventures, Road to Glory, Treasure Island, The Wind in the Willows, The Little Match Girl, The Snow Queen, A Christmas carol, Midsummer nights Dream (The Point, Eastleigh) Oliver Twist, Oh no not Snow, Immune, Honk, Sweeney Todd (Royal & Derngate) The Magic Toy Shop (Invisible Ink / Theatr Iolo) Resurrection, Robin Hood (Theatre Royal Bath) The Best Thing, Sharing Joy, Finding Joy, nursing Lives, Projectionist (Vamos) Hansel and Gretel, The Mikado, Madam Butterfly (Co Opera Co) Nansi, Blodeuwedd, (Theatr Genedlaethol) Lord of the Flies, The Snow Queen, Hansel and Gretel, James and The Giant Peach, The Jungle Book, Kes, The Borrowers (The Courtyard Theatre, Hereford) The Phoenix and the Carpet (forest Forge) The Laramie Project, The Bacchae, Caucasian Chalk Circle (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton) Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood, The Jungle Book, Midsummer Nights Dream (The Castle Theatre, Wellingborough) Candide, The Calling of Maisy Day (Welsh National Youth Opera) It Will All be Over by Christmas, Cyrano De Bergerac, Bankrupt Bride, Big Bad Wolf, Me a Giant (Theater na-nOg) To and Fro (Oxford Playhouse) Exams are Getting Easier (Birmingham Repertory Theatre) A Casa di Anne Frank, IL Viaggio, La Casa Sull' Aqua di Flora Mariani, Bebele, Pedro Paramo is Dead, Il Desegno Del Mondo, Lago senza Lacrime (Elan, Italy)
Trained at Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire, and is the resident lighting designer at the New Vic Stoke, where she has designed the lighting for over 60 productions. She won Best Lighting Design at the TMA Awards in 2009 for "The Wicked Lady". She has also designed lighting for Oldham Coliseum, St. James Theatre (London), Northern Broadsides, Orange Tree (Richmond). For Townsend Productions Lighting Designer for 'Dare Devil Rides To Jarama' and 'We Are The Lions Mr Manager'
Liz has worked extensively at Theatre by the Lake, Cumbria, where some of her favourite designs have included Wallflowering, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, The Birthday Party, The Glass Menagerie, Vincent in Brixton, Suddenly Last Summer, The Lady of the Lake, The Vertical Hour and the critically-acclaimed Elektra.
Liz's other designs include Herding Cats (Hope Mill Theatre for Play With Fire), The Blue Room, Blithe Spirit, Picnic and Barnbow Canaries (HOME for Manchester School of Theatre), Master of the Macabre (The Vaults, Waterloo), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Octagon Theatre, Bolton and Hull Truck Theatre), Queen of the North and Peter Pan (Octagon Theatre, Bolton) and When The Waters Recede, a site-specific production on Derwent Island, Keswick.
She studied at Leeds University, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and has a PhD in Theatre Design from Wimbledon College of Art.
He has directed and scored Townsend Theatre Productions' previous productions - "Dare Devil Rides To Jarama" "Ragged Trousered Philanthropists", "United We Stand", "We Will Be Free!" and "On The Road To Freedom". He is one of folk music's most prolific performers for over 50 years and a revered squeeze-box player who has performed solo and with Steeleye Span, Albion Band, Richard Thompson, Brass Monkey, Roy Bailey, Leon Rosselson, Home Service. Directed music of National Theatre and New Vic Stoke.